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Singapore’s First Specialised Assistive Technology Centre Receives Innovative Ideas From Local Groups On Devices To Help Physically Disabled People

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72-year-old Mr Chin Wan Fatt had his right leg amputated below the knee in September last year due to diabetes. Moving around became difficult and he is now looking forward to having a prosthesis made. This normally takes up to a month and would require several trips to the hospital for fitting and measurements, but with the ‘Direct Pressure Cast Prosthetic Socket for Transtibial Amputees’, he may get his artificial limb sooner than he thinks.

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NTU To Develop Solutions For People With Physical Disabilities – MOU Signed With SPD To Advance R&D In Assistive Technology

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Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and The Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) today to jointly pursue and promote research and development in Assistive Technology (AT).

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Scholarship Awards to Recognise Excelling Disabled Students in Schools

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All I ask is for a chance from them to prove myself,” wrote Jan Lee, one of SPD’s scholarship recipients this year. He was answering a question regarding gaining employment in his scholarship application essay. In it, he writes about his hopes for gaining employment after graduation, keenly aware of the obstacles he will face then.

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Spd And Caltex Launch Groceries For Charity Project To Help Financially Disadvantaged Families With Physical Disabilities

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The Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) and Caltex today announced the launch of Groceries for Charity, a community project which will see Caltex employee volunteers deliver groceries to financially disadvantaged families with physical disabilities.

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Starhub Donates $250,000 To The Society For The Physically Disabled

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StarHub donated S$250,000 from the StarHub IDD Charity Fund to The Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) at the StarHub Golf Invitational 2005 for its corporate customers. The donation will be used to set up the StarHub-SPD Learning and Development Centre (LDC), that will cater to the academic, personal, mental and social development of physically disabled students.

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Students With Physical Disabilities Get More Opportunities Through The New Starhub-SPD Learning And Development Centre

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Ms Chin Yee Lee, a teacher at East View Secondary School, previously would not think twice about excluding physically disabled students from PE lessons. She thought that the activities might be too strenuous or dangerous for them if they were to participate. However, after undergoing the TOPS Workshop provided by The Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD) in July this year, her perception changed as she has learnt how to modify the lessons to suit children with physical disabilities.

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Assistive Technology To Enable Cyber Gamers

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At the Grand Final of World Cyber Games 2005, Samsung Electronics, a leader in the digital technology era, and The Society for the Physically Disabled (SPD), a registered voluntary welfare organization, unveiled plans of a joint collaboration to provide people with physical disabilities an opportunity to experience the joy of gaming through new customised assistive technology devices. Special adviser to the collaboration is Rapture Gaming, organizers of World Cyber Games 2005 Singapore National Final.

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