The theme for International Women’s Day 2023, #EmbraceEquity, puts forth the aspiration of the world to embrace diversity and pushes for equality and a world free of bias, stereotypes, and discrimination.
This year in the month of August, EAP Malaysia’s dream to lengthen our services to other parts of Malaysia finally came true!
Every year, EAP organises an Annual Family Day to celebrate every single one of our children and their families.
How would it feel to live in a world where you can’t express yourself? In The Reason I Jump, a documentary-style movie based on a book by Naoki Higashida, you can see the lives of five remarkable young people, who are also non-verbal (or non-speaking) individuals with autism, on how they find their places in this noisy, lively, overwhelming world.
A father once said, “Children are a gift. You truly learn the meaning of unconditional love when you become a father and this is amplified when you have a child with special needs.”
Motherhood, the enchanted stage of life that equips women with the superpower needed to venture through this path of life full of thorns and tunnels, is indeed a bittersweet journey. Working with kids with special needs, we have witnessed the incredible strength of mothers..
As Malaysia moves on to the endemic phase, the Hari Raya celebration this year would be one that most resembles what we used to have pre-pandemic. This undoubtedly adds to the excitement and anticipation of the festive season, which we have missed for the past two years.
Some children with autism struggle with tolerance and sensitivity issues, for example, they might find loud noises and crowds distressing.
The theme for International Women’s Day 2022, #BreakTheBias, puts forth the aspiration for a world that embraces diversity and pushes for equality.
In conjunction with International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, we would like to feature an incredible female figure on the spectrum – Greta Thunberg!
