Articles

Tips
5 coolly understated Swedish innovations that’s not IKEA

Swedish design has a history of making things designed to make life easier: the Celsius thermometer, the modern-day zipper, and Skype. A recent exhibition titled “Design for Dignity&rdquo...
510 words
Stories
What these kids learn in preschool today will shape how society embraces disability in our future

The youngest occupants of the Enabling Village hail from AWWA Kindle Garden, Singapore’s first inclusive preschool. For parents with special-needs children, Kindle Garden represents a new optio...
964 words
Guides
18 Feb Test Article

Test Article Body Categories Type of content > Article > Guides SGEnable Tags Topics > Assistive Technology (Topics) Topics > Caregiver Support Topics >...
100 words
Tips
7 essential vacation planning tips for wheelchair users

With December upon us, many individuals and families have made plans for their year-end vacation. If you (or your travel companion) have to use a wheelchair, the planning can be a little tricky. But ...
674 words
Tips
4 vacation plans to start you thinking...

School exams for the kids are over, and that means one thing: Vacations. Where should you to go for that waterfall, street food, night market, resort and theme park adventure? If you haven’t fi...
603 words
Tips
4 tips to save you embarrassment in the company of someone with a disability

Statistics tell us that one in 10 persons living today has a disability. So it might seem strange, when you think about it, that many of us still feel awkward in the company of someone with a ...
590 words
Stories
Ever wondered how smartphones work when you can’t see? Here’s how

Everyone and their grandmother use a smartphone these days. The full-colour, poker-card-sized touch screen was a technological marvel when the first iPhone appeared a decade ago; today we take it for...
722 words
Tips
10 times you were accidentally rude to a person with a disability

Whoops! You were just trying help a person in the wheelchair. Now he’s frowning at you. What gives? You were just trying to be nice, right? Well, if that’s the #StoryOfYourLife, you shoul...
1109 words
Stories
5 tips for levelling up your career from a tech geek

Back in the days of dial-up Internet, coding classes for children were virtually unheard of. But Lim Zui Young, then 11 years old, was already tinkering with html codes on (the now-discontinued) Micr...
659 words