After the first meetings with representatives from Singapore during the recent meetings of the ASEAN Autism Network AfA was very privileged to welcome Mr Yew Teng Leong, President of Rainbow Centre, and his wife, Mr Dennis Ang, CEO of St. Andrew’s Autism Centre, and Mr Malcolm Wong, Deputy Executive Director of Rainbow Centre from 16.-18.01.2017. […]
ASEAN Autism Network
Playing sports
In January a small team of AfA participated at the 1st ASEAN Autism Friendship Games in Laguna,Philippines, 14-15 January 2016. Our 3 participants came back with 3 medals: Weston won gold in bowling under 13 years, Marcel and Alex won silver in bowling over 13 years and 50 m running under 13 years respectively. In […]
Preparing for the 3rd congress of ASEAN Autism Network
In 2010 the ASEAN Autism Network was founded and held its first congress in Bangkok, Thailand. The network is uniting associations of parents of children with autism throughout the South-east Asian region. In 2013 AAN met for its second congress in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei Darussalam. In both congresses members from 9 ASEAN countries had […]
Urgent call for support
Dear friends, AfA has been invited to participate at the 3rd AAN Congress in January in Laguna, Philippines. We would like to send 4 of our kids to participate at the sports and arts events planned during that congress and ensure proper guidance by parents and teachers/trainer during that time. But our budget is limited. […]
Ein Monat für Autismus
Ein ereignisreicher und anstrengender Monat liegt hinter uns. Ist für uns jeder Tag ein Autismus-Tag so ist doch der April besonders. Die UNO hat den 2. April zum Welt-Autismus-Tag (World Autism Awareness Day) erklärt und in vielen Ländern werden den ganzen April hindurch besondere Aktivitäten organisiert. So auch in Laos in diesem Jahr. Am 2. […]
AfA at 2nd Congress of AAN in Brunei
First of all a very big THANK YOU to SMARTER Brunei, the organiser of the 2nd Congress of the ASEAN Autism Network (AAN). It was a very successful congress and the beginning of a new phase in AAN’s development! It was also great to meet all the friends from our region again and start planning […]
Busy weekend
Last weekend (07.-08.05.11) we were busy exchanging views and experiences with our colleagues from Thailand. A delegation of the Thai Association of Parents of Thai Persons with Autism headed by its president Mr. Chusak Janthayanond and representatives form Khum Poom Foundation, Autistic Thai Foundation as well as special education centes from Thailand visited the Vientiane […]
World Autism Awareness Day in Vientiane
About 100 people joined WAAD 2011 in the morning of 2.4.2011 and colored the ground of Vientiane Autism Center blue. Short speeches of the President of the Mobilizing Committee of LAA, the Honorary President of ASEAN Autism network and the director of VAC were followed by a symbolic walk for autism. In a very well […]
Moving forward to WAAD
Since weeks parents of children with autism in Vientiane are busy preparing the “Walk for Autism” on World Autism Awareness Day on 2nd April 2011. We will have a quite small celebration at Vientiane Autism Center with a short symbolic walk, a culture show of our kids and joint games and fun of children with […]
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
Thanks to all of our friends who send greetings by email, SMS, postcard … We wish all of you a Happy and Prosperous 2011! 2011 will be a special year for our activities. Since LAA is member of the ASEAN network we got a major boost. But we know that a lot of work is […]