Problem Statement
There is a significant need to address communication gaps faced by persons who are deaf or hard of hearing in both face-to-face social interactions and access to voice calls.

Solution
An on-demand Zoom video call service will be set up via Zoom to support person who are deaf or hard of hearing, offering sign-language interpreters for effective communication. 
Key uses for this service include: 
•    Providing sign-language interpretation during public engagements;
•    Offering sign-language interpretation during voice calls;
•    Providing real-time on-screen captions during voice calls.

Outcomes
The project aims to empower persons who are deaf or hard of hearing to live independently without having to rely on dedicated companions, family members and/or friends.

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The Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf) has been serving the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing community for the past six decades. 
The association is also affiliated, internationally, to the World Federation of the Deaf  and, locally, to the Children Charities’ Association.

There is a significant need to address communication gaps faced by persons who are deaf or hard of hearing in both face-to-face social interactions and access to voice calls.

An on-demand Zoom video call service will be set up via Zoom to support person who are deaf or hard of hearing, offering sign-language interpreters for effective communication. 

•    Providing sign-language interpretation during public engagements;

•    Offering sign-language interpretation during voice calls;

•    Providing real-time on-screen captions during voice calls.

The project aims to empower persons who are deaf or hard of hearing to live independently without having to rely on dedicated companions, family members and/or friends.

The Singapore Association for the Deaf (SADeaf) has been serving the Deaf and Hard-of-hearing community for the past six decades. 

The association is also affiliated, internationally, to the World Federation of the Deaf  and, locally, to the Children Charities’ Association.

Project Visual Signs

Problem Statement
There is a shortage of qualified Early Intervention (EI) practitioners and the long wait times for services in early intervention centres.
This delays assessment and intervention, hindering the development of many children with disabilities during their foundational years. 

Solution
The Early Intervention Digital Toolbox is a structured digital home programme that supports the holistic development of children and enhance their skills across various developmental domains. It also educates and empowers caregivers to assist their children’s improvement at home during this critical period. 

 The Early Intervention Digital Toolbox includes: 
• Assessment Toolbox: Screens children in the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System for Infants and Children domains and provide caregivers with analysis to understand their child’s specific difficulties.
• Intervention Programme: Develop goals and milestones based on assessment results, generating an individualised therapy plan for home intervention.  
• Review System: Prompt caregivers every six months to follow up on the child’s progress, repeat the assessment and update the home programme. If the child enters early intervention centres, a handover report is generated, and the child will be discharged from the programme.

Outcomes
This programme aims to: 
• Support children and their families while they wait for their slot at early intervention centres, improving developmental outcomes and reducing caregiver stress;
• Provide waitlist support to early intervention centres, easing the pressure of timely demand management. 

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TeleHope Speech Therapy was founded by Beatrice Teo and Moona Islam, two highly passionate Speech Therapists.
TeleHope Speech Therapy’s mission is to provide affordable, accessible and effective therapy to all via innovative online and digital solutions. 

There is a shortage of qualified Early Intervention (EI) practitioners and the long wait times for services in early intervention centres.

This delays assessment and intervention, hindering the development of many children with disabilities during their foundational years. 

The Early Intervention Digital Toolbox is a structured digital home programme that supports the holistic development of children and enhance their skills across various developmental domains. It also educates and empowers caregivers to assist their children’s improvement at home during this critical period. 

 The Early Intervention Digital Toolbox includes: 

• Assessment Toolbox: Screens children in the Assessment, Evaluation, and Programming System for Infants and Children domains and provide caregivers with analysis to understand their child’s specific difficulties.

• Intervention Programme: Develop goals and milestones based on assessment results, generating an individualised therapy plan for home intervention.  

• Review System: Prompt caregivers every six months to follow up on the child’s progress, repeat the assessment and update the home programme. If the child enters early intervention centres, a handover report is generated, and the child will be discharged from the programme.

• Support children and their families while they wait for their slot at early intervention centres, improving developmental outcomes and reducing caregiver stress;

• Provide waitlist support to early intervention centres, easing the pressure of timely demand management. 

TeleHope Speech Therapy was founded by Beatrice Teo and Moona Islam, two highly passionate Speech Therapists.

TeleHope Speech Therapy’s mission is to provide affordable, accessible and effective therapy to all via innovative online and digital solutions. 

Early Intervention Digital Toolbox

Problem Statement
The expansion of AI industry offers more flexible job opportunities for persons with disabilities, such as data annotation. 
However, the training and software required can be complex and expensive, creating challenges for persons with disabilities to pursue these opportunities. 

Solution
With the automation of processes and simplification of steps, the programme enhances features of Tictag’s existing mobile annotation platform. This enables persons with disabilities to access job opportunities in data annotation more effectively. 
Key enhancements will include: 
• Simplified onboarding and automated payment system replacing token-based payment;
• Customised audio/video instructions;
• Tagger communication tool for real-time staff support;
• Tagger analytic dashboard for progress monitoring;
• Task matching system to align tasks with individual abilities; and 
• Software as a Service (SaaS) Marketplace enabling annotation specialists with disabilities to offer their services to AI companies. 

Outcomes
The programme aims to offer persons with disabilities, especially those facing challenges in finding traditional employment, opportunities to work in the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry.

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Tictag has developed an innovative, gamified, mobile-first platform that enables businesses to collect, categorise, and manage data on their phones. 
This platform powers AI, search, and content models, offering data collection and annotation services to prominent companies. 

The expansion of AI industry offers more flexible job opportunities for persons with disabilities, such as data annotation. 

However, the training and software required can be complex and expensive, creating challenges for persons with disabilities to pursue these opportunities. 

With the automation of processes and simplification of steps, the programme enhances features of Tictag’s existing mobile annotation platform. This enables persons with disabilities to access job opportunities in data annotation more effectively. 

• Simplified onboarding and automated payment system replacing token-based payment;

• Tagger communication tool for real-time staff support;

• Tagger analytic dashboard for progress monitoring;

• Task matching system to align tasks with individual abilities; and 

• Software as a Service (SaaS) Marketplace enabling annotation specialists with disabilities to offer their services to AI companies. 

The programme aims to offer persons with disabilities, especially those facing challenges in finding traditional employment, opportunities to work in the burgeoning artificial intelligence industry.

Tictag has developed an innovative, gamified, mobile-first platform that enables businesses to collect, categorise, and manage data on their phones. 

This platform powers AI, search, and content models, offering data collection and annotation services to prominent companies. 

Data4all: Increasing AI Accessibility

Problem Statement
Children with disabilities often lack opportunities to practise essential daily living skills outside of intervention settings primarily due to: 
(i) insufficient trained educators or professionals
(ii) interventions rarely extending into the child's immediate and natural environment 
(iii) limited parental involvement
(iv) inadequate research on the topic.

Solution
The programme creates an enabling and nurturing environment for children to reinforce their learning and development beyond school, through experiencing autonomy, relatedness and achieving competence in various hands-on activities in the natural outdoors around them.

Outcomes
The programme aims to establish an inclusive forest and nature school pilot for children on the autism spectrum. This initiative extends intervention activities and skill practice beyond clinical settings, providing a natural environment for interaction with children of diverse abilities.
In collaboration with Thye Hua Kwan Early Intervention for Children (THKEIC) Services, a resource kit will be developed to empower the community in supporting the outdoor learning and development of children with special needs.

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muein is a Singapore-based group that initiates and pilots out-of-the-box solutions to pertinent social issues, such as urban poverty, disability inclusion, and arts education.

Children with disabilities often lack opportunities to practise essential daily living skills outside of intervention settings primarily due to: 

(i) insufficient trained educators or professionals

(ii) interventions rarely extending into the child's immediate and natural environment 

The programme creates an enabling and nurturing environment for children to reinforce their learning and development beyond school, through experiencing autonomy, relatedness and achieving competence in various hands-on activities in the natural outdoors around them.

The programme aims to establish an inclusive forest and nature school pilot for children on the autism spectrum. This initiative extends intervention activities and skill practice beyond clinical settings, providing a natural environment for interaction with children of diverse abilities.

In collaboration with Thye Hua Kwan Early Intervention for Children (THKEIC) Services, a resource kit will be developed to empower the community in supporting the outdoor learning and development of children with special needs.

muein is a Singapore-based group that initiates and pilots out-of-the-box solutions to pertinent social issues, such as urban poverty, disability inclusion, and arts education.

Into the Wild: An Inclusive Forest & Nature School

Problem Statement
There is an underserved group of persons with disabilities who have graduated from SPED schools but are not in employment or placed in adult disability care services due to the lack of relevant services.

Solution
YMCA Club LITE aims to continue engaging the underserved group through suitable activities and programmes to support persons with disabilities in achieving social and independent skills, increasing their wellbeing and confidence.
Click here to find out more about YMCA Club LITE membership.

Outcomes
The programme aims to provide an alternative and structured programme for post-18 persons with disabilities on the waitlist for adult disability care or employment services.
The programme would enhance the level of confidence through intentional engagement and empowering lifelong independence through life skills-related activities. 
SPED graduates would continue to be engaged meaningfully during the transition from SPED schools to employment or adult disability care services.

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Established in 1902, the YMCA of Singapore is a volunteer-based Christian organisation that seeks to serve and impact all members of the community, regardless of race, language, or religion, through programmes, services, and enterprises to develop the body, mind, and spirit.

There is an underserved group of persons with disabilities who have graduated from SPED schools but are not in employment or placed in adult disability care services due to the lack of relevant services.

YMCA Club LITE aims to continue engaging the underserved group through suitable activities and programmes to support persons with disabilities in achieving social and independent skills, increasing their wellbeing and confidence.

Click here to find out more about YMCA Club LITE membership.

The programme aims to provide an alternative and structured programme for post-18 persons with disabilities on the waitlist for adult disability care or employment services.

The programme would enhance the level of confidence through intentional engagement and empowering lifelong independence through life skills-related activities. 

SPED graduates would continue to be engaged meaningfully during the transition from SPED schools to employment or adult disability care services.

Established in 1902, the YMCA of Singapore is a volunteer-based Christian organisation that seeks to serve and impact all members of the community, regardless of race, language, or religion, through programmes, services, and enterprises to develop the body, mind, and spirit.

YMCA Club LITE

Problem Statement
Students with special needs who transit from Special Education (SPED) schools to mainstream higher education need greater support as the school environments differ greatly. For instance, the fear of being stigmatised by their peers may cause them to hide their learning challenges, or they may lack confidence and social skills to interact with their peers.

Solution
Aptitude Buddy Club is a befriending-cum-training support  programme for students with disabilities enrolled in ITE College West. It helps students with disabilities in the development of functional and social skills that they require in daily life to become independent adults.

Outcomes
This aims to support students with disabilities by:
- Enabling them to improve their social skills 
- Providing opportunities to develop social skills for work and other collaborative settings
- Reducing social stigma surrounding in school and in the society  

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TOUCH Community Services is a not-for-profit charity organisation officially registered in 1992. Since then, TOUCH have served people of all ages, races, and religions to inspire hope and transform lives.

Students with special needs who transit from Special Education (SPED) schools to mainstream higher education need greater support as the school environments differ greatly. For instance, the fear of being stigmatised by their peers may cause them to hide their learning challenges, or they may lack confidence and social skills to interact with their peers.

Aptitude Buddy Club is a befriending-cum-training support  programme for students with disabilities enrolled in ITE College West. It helps students with disabilities in the development of functional and social skills that they require in daily life to become independent adults.

This aims to support students with disabilities by:

- Enabling them to improve their social skills 

- Providing opportunities to develop social skills for work and other collaborative settings

- Reducing social stigma surrounding in school and in the society  

TOUCH Community Services is a not-for-profit charity organisation officially registered in 1992. Since then, TOUCH have served people of all ages, races, and religions to inspire hope and transform lives.

Aptitude Buddy Club

Problem Statement
Each year, there is a long waitlist of special education (SPED) school graduates hoping to join Day Activity Centres (DACs), and with few persons with disabilities discharged, the DACs face capacity issues.  

Solution
DAC Without Walls hopes to integrate adults with mild to moderate disabilities into accessible community settings. This weekly 5-day programme comprises customised activities for clients, run by trained volunteers and activity partners, conducted at suitable community venues. These activities aim to equip clients with community living skills and maintain their current abilities through excursions, sports, arts etc.

Outcomes
The project aims to support persons with disabilities by:
• Improving their quality of life by enhancing their community living skills, increasing their interaction with the community through recreational activities, sports, arts and culture, and supporting them to participate in activities of their choice;
• Creating an alternative post-18 model for individuals with mild to moderate disabilities that is less reliant on a fixed physical facility. Additionally, as this programme caters to smaller groups of persons of disabilities, activities can be better curated to suit the interests of participants.
• Building an inclusive community by encouraging interactions between members of the public and individuals with mild to moderate disabilities.

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Established in 1964, SPD is a charity that promotes the interest, welfare, and advancement of people with disabilities to help develop their potential to the fullest. Through more than 20 programmes and services that encompass therapy, vocational skills training, employment support, assistive technology, early intervention, day care, educational and social service support, they serve more than 10,000 people with congenital or acquired physical, sensory, and learning disabilities today. Their support is also extended to family members and caregivers to ensure a better network of care for people with disabilities.

Each year, there is a long waitlist of special education (SPED) school graduates hoping to join Day Activity Centres (DACs), and with few persons with disabilities discharged, the DACs face capacity issues.  

DAC Without Walls hopes to integrate adults with mild to moderate disabilities into accessible community settings. This weekly 5-day programme comprises customised activities for clients, run by trained volunteers and activity partners, conducted at suitable community venues. These activities aim to equip clients with community living skills and maintain their current abilities through excursions, sports, arts etc.

The project aims to support persons with disabilities by:

• Improving their quality of life by enhancing their community living skills, increasing their interaction with the community through recreational activities, sports, arts and culture, and supporting them to participate in activities of their choice;

• Creating an alternative post-18 model for individuals with mild to moderate disabilities that is less reliant on a fixed physical facility. Additionally, as this programme caters to smaller groups of persons of disabilities, activities can be better curated to suit the interests of participants.

• Building an inclusive community by encouraging interactions between members of the public and individuals with mild to moderate disabilities.

Established in 1964, SPD is a charity that promotes the interest, welfare, and advancement of people with disabilities to help develop their potential to the fullest. Through more than 20 programmes and services that encompass therapy, vocational skills training, employment support, assistive technology, early intervention, day care, educational and social service support, they serve more than 10,000 people with congenital or acquired physical, sensory, and learning disabilities today. Their support is also extended to family members and caregivers to ensure a better network of care for people with disabilities.

DAC Without Walls

Problem Statement
There are limited training and job opportunities for persons with disabilities in the film industry.

Solution
Persons with disabilities would be honed in the craft of filmmaking in this specially-curated training programme where media students from Nanyang Technological University would also guide trainees along. 
The programme also includes the production of a short film, centred on disability issues. 

Outcomes
The programme provides opportunities to persons with disabilities to be trained in film crew roles via practical skills-based workshops, brainstorming, improvisations and design thinking. 
This helps create employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in the film industry, an unconventional vocational pathway for persons with disabilities. 

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Established in 1992, the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) is the only full-fledged communication school in Singapore and is a world-class centre of excellence with an international faculty, state-of-the-art research laboratories, and global institutional affiliations.

There are limited training and job opportunities for persons with disabilities in the film industry.

Persons with disabilities would be honed in the craft of filmmaking in this specially-curated training programme where media students from Nanyang Technological University would also guide trainees along. 

The programme also includes the production of a short film, centred on disability issues. 

The programme provides opportunities to persons with disabilities to be trained in film crew roles via practical skills-based workshops, brainstorming, improvisations and design thinking. 

This helps create employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in the film industry, an unconventional vocational pathway for persons with disabilities. 

Established in 1992, the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information (WKWSCI) is the only full-fledged communication school in Singapore and is a world-class centre of excellence with an international faculty, state-of-the-art research laboratories, and global institutional affiliations.

Facilitating Disability in Cinema

Problem Statement
Despite the availability of adult disability care services and other community resources, there are still persons with disabilities who are unable to access this support due to various reasons. Many persons with disabilities are still not prepared for independent living in the community.

Solution
Empowering Bubbles aims to enhance the quality of life and promotes independent living of persons with disabilities who are not enrolled in centre-based services. Through different ‘bubbles’ sent to their homes, persons with disabilities are provided activities and tools to live independently.  
Empowering Bubbles comprises: 
1. Activity Bubbles: activities that enhance domains of well-being, including education, livelihood, social relationships, empowerment, health and more. 
2. Assistive Bubbles: assistive technology tools such as health tracking and adaptive mechanisms that allow persons with disabilities to live independently. 
3. Care Bubbles: transition and future care planning support provided by MINDS. 

Outcomes
The Empowering Bubble programme aims to support persons with disabilities by:
- Equipping them with skills to live more independently 
- Enhancing social integration to build circles of support with their caregivers and befrienders
- Serving as an alternative source of skill development and training for those with limited access to adult disability care services
- Minimising institutionalisation 
- Providing greater respite to caregivers and increase caregiver support

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MINDS has been serving persons with intellectual disabilities (PWIDs) since 1962. MINDS’ services include Special Education schools, Training and Development Centres, employment and job placement services, caregiver support services and more.

Despite the availability of adult disability care services and other community resources, there are still persons with disabilities who are unable to access this support due to various reasons. Many persons with disabilities are still not prepared for independent living in the community.

Empowering Bubbles aims to enhance the quality of life and promotes independent living of persons with disabilities who are not enrolled in centre-based services. Through different ‘bubbles’ sent to their homes, persons with disabilities are provided activities and tools to live independently.  

1. Activity Bubbles: activities that enhance domains of well-being, including education, livelihood, social relationships, empowerment, health and more. 

2. Assistive Bubbles: assistive technology tools such as health tracking and adaptive mechanisms that allow persons with disabilities to live independently. 

3. Care Bubbles: transition and future care planning support provided by MINDS. 

The Empowering Bubble programme aims to support persons with disabilities by:

- Equipping them with skills to live more independently 

- Enhancing social integration to build circles of support with their caregivers and befrienders

- Serving as an alternative source of skill development and training for those with limited access to adult disability care services

- Providing greater respite to caregivers and increase caregiver support

MINDS has been serving persons with intellectual disabilities (PWIDs) since 1962. MINDS’ services include Special Education schools, Training and Development Centres, employment and job placement services, caregiver support services and more.

Empowering Bubbles

Problem Statement
In our fast-moving digital and creative economy, there is a need for more relevant and scalable forms of training and employment for persons with disabilities in this industry.

Solution
A11Y Park is a community-driven metaverse that is led by persons with disabilities. Hosted on Sandbox, A11Y Park has universal design features and will be e-accessible to persons with disabilities.
Utilising Web 3.0 technology, it fosters educational, networking and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in the post-18 sector, promoting independence and integration into the creative and digital economy.
The project includes tailored two-year training programmes in creative and digital industries for individuals with disabilities, along with a train-the-trainer initiative in the second year. Additionally, it provides accessible platforms for showcasing their artworks, performances, and digital media.

Outcomes
This project aims to empower persons with disabilities by: 
• Facilitating financial independence through competitive earnings from their creations and/or contributions to the metaverse;
• Opening pathways to non-traditional careers typically inaccessible to persons with disabilities;
• Enhancing employability within the digital creative economy;
• Empowering them to train successive batches of recruits in the metaverse. 

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A11Yverse is a creative and social organisation that is revolutionising accessibility in the metaverse by placing inclusivity at the heart of its disability-led practice.

In our fast-moving digital and creative economy, there is a need for more relevant and scalable forms of training and employment for persons with disabilities in this industry.

A11Y Park is a community-driven metaverse that is led by persons with disabilities. Hosted on Sandbox, A11Y Park has universal design features and will be e-accessible to persons with disabilities.

Utilising Web 3.0 technology, it fosters educational, networking and employment opportunities for persons with disabilities in the post-18 sector, promoting independence and integration into the creative and digital economy.

The project includes tailored two-year training programmes in creative and digital industries for individuals with disabilities, along with a train-the-trainer initiative in the second year. Additionally, it provides accessible platforms for showcasing their artworks, performances, and digital media.

This project aims to empower persons with disabilities by: 

• Facilitating financial independence through competitive earnings from their creations and/or contributions to the metaverse;

• Opening pathways to non-traditional careers typically inaccessible to persons with disabilities;

• Enhancing employability within the digital creative economy;

• Empowering them to train successive batches of recruits in the metaverse. 

A11Yverse is a creative and social organisation that is revolutionising accessibility in the metaverse by placing inclusivity at the heart of its disability-led practice.

A11Y Park

Problem Statement
There is a lack of support for the holistic and psychosocial needs of stroke survivors with disabilities and their families, particularly in the transition between the hospital and the home. They also require greater support in the development of self-management skills.

Solution
This Integrative Health Coaching Post-Stroke programme develops and conducts a holistic, individualised, and strength-based health coaching intervention that seeks to support first-time stroke survivors with disabilities and their family caregivers through their transition from hospital to home. The intervention seeks to improve their emotional well-being by addressing the psychological effects of stroke. 
It comprises the following two programmes:
1. ARCH (‘Aspirational Rehabilitation Coaching for Holistic Health’): Equipping first-time stroke survivors with self-efficacy and management skills to better prepare for the transition to home and reduce the burden of care on family caregivers;
2. PEER (‘Peer Enriched Environment for Recovery’): Instilling self-management skills in stroke survivors with disabilities through peer-to-peer learning.

Outcomes
The project aims to support stroke survivors with disabilities and their caregivers by: 
- Improving their mental and physical wellbeing 
- Strengthening their relationships through the ARCH and PEER programmes
- Providing continuous care in the form of ongoing, community-based outpatient rehabilitation and support
- Enhancing Singapore’s health and community care system 

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NTU's Psychology in the School of Social Sciences (SSS) offers scientific and practical training to introduce students to the field of psychology. It introduces students to the professional practices of psychologists and prepares students with the required skills and training for postgraduate studies should they prefer to carry on their education as a psychologist or behavioural researcher.

There is a lack of support for the holistic and psychosocial needs of stroke survivors with disabilities and their families, particularly in the transition between the hospital and the home. They also require greater support in the development of self-management skills.

This Integrative Health Coaching Post-Stroke programme develops and conducts a holistic, individualised, and strength-based health coaching intervention that seeks to support first-time stroke survivors with disabilities and their family caregivers through their transition from hospital to home. The intervention seeks to improve their emotional well-being by addressing the psychological effects of stroke. 

It comprises the following two programmes:

1. ARCH (‘Aspirational Rehabilitation Coaching for Holistic Health’): Equipping first-time stroke survivors with self-efficacy and management skills to better prepare for the transition to home and reduce the burden of care on family caregivers;

2. PEER (‘Peer Enriched Environment for Recovery’): Instilling self-management skills in stroke survivors with disabilities through peer-to-peer learning.

The project aims to support stroke survivors with disabilities and their caregivers by: 

- Improving their mental and physical wellbeing 

- Strengthening their relationships through the ARCH and PEER programmes

- Providing continuous care in the form of ongoing, community-based outpatient rehabilitation and support

- Enhancing Singapore’s health and community care system 

NTU's Psychology in the School of Social Sciences (SSS) offers scientific and practical training to introduce students to the field of psychology. It introduces students to the professional practices of psychologists and prepares students with the required skills and training for postgraduate studies should they prefer to carry on their education as a psychologist or behavioural researcher.

Integrative Health Coaching Post-Stroke

Problem Statement
Persons with intellectual disability (PWIDs) tend to be prematurely institutionalised due to lack of support options and awareness of existing services and programmes, as well as uncoordinated efforts by agencies. PWIDs also do not have sufficient platforms to advocate for themselves.

Solution
The PWID Special Interest Groups programme equips and empowers PWIDs with skills and knowledge to contribute and collaborate with relevant stakeholders through self-advocating and producing deliverables that will directly empower other PWIDs so as to increase awareness and accessibility to services and spaces within their residential areas.

Outcomes
The programme seeks to:
- Improve community integration of PWIDs
- Increase awareness of the needs of PWIDs and to enable PWIDs to live within their community 
- Increase community's capabilities and readiness to welcome and accept PWIDs and their ideas to improve inclusion in the community

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MINDS has been serving persons with intellectual disabilities (PWIDs) since 1962. MINDS’ services include Special Education schools, Training and Development Centres, employment and job placement services, caregiver support services and more.

Persons with intellectual disability (PWIDs) tend to be prematurely institutionalised due to lack of support options and awareness of existing services and programmes, as well as uncoordinated efforts by agencies. PWIDs also do not have sufficient platforms to advocate for themselves.

The PWID Special Interest Groups programme equips and empowers PWIDs with skills and knowledge to contribute and collaborate with relevant stakeholders through self-advocating and producing deliverables that will directly empower other PWIDs so as to increase awareness and accessibility to services and spaces within their residential areas.

- Increase awareness of the needs of PWIDs and to enable PWIDs to live within their community 

- Increase community's capabilities and readiness to welcome and accept PWIDs and their ideas to improve inclusion in the community

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