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Managing her e-commerce business with assistive technology
Ms Vivian Goh, 41, was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a neuromuscular disease that causes her muscles to waste away progressively. Unable to move her limbs and body, she spends her days confined t...
Exploring Sign Language and its Benefits
What is sign language and what does it mean to you, to me, to the community? Well, sign language is a visual-manual language with its own grammar and linguistic structure that are different from thos...
Care for Yourself to Better Care for Others
Caring for a vulnerable family member — can be long and demanding journey, and the stress that comes with it can take a serious toll on a caregiver’s health — especially if there is no one else to ...
Siew Ling Tan
This is me in the video. I am very excited to be given this space to share bits about my life and my perspectives of things with you. On this journey of being deafblind, I have met with challenges. Emotionally, I am still trying to cope and to adapt to “new” way of doing things. Through my writing, I hope to show that persons with disabilities are still able to be part of the society with the help of assistive technology devices and with a little patience and understanding from the people around them. From my articles hopefully, you will be able to understand more about us.
Reflections on Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore
I am now a published author! I recently had the privilege of contributing an essay to Not Without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore. This book of essays by 22 authors...
Project Adaptive Fun: Accessible Off-the-Shelf Games (4/4)
The chips of the Connect Four game are differentiated not just by colour, but by tactile images, increasing the accessibility of the game.This is the last article in the “Project Adaptive Fun” series ...
Project Adaptive Fun: Fun with Snakes and Ladders (3/4)
Siew Ling posing with the adapted Snakes and Ladders Game.This is the third article in the “Project Adaptive Fun” series in which Siew Ling, who is deaf-blind, shares the simple adaptations she and he...
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