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. […]
Autism
Start to the new school year
September becomes the second busiest months for AfA – after April with the World Autism Awareness Day as main reason. In September the new school year starts welcoming a number of new children with autism in inclusive classes. In Vientiane 3 children enrolled in grade 1 bringing the total number of kids in primary school […]
Sports at TCFC Sports Camp
Children like to run around. There is no exception for kids with autism. But how to get them to run in a – let’s say – structured or organised way? Every summer break TCFC is organising a Sports Camp for children in Vientiane. This year T.C. was going to try something new: to include kids […]
New teachers for Pakse Autism Center
After two month of intense and very practical training at Vientiane Autism Center three new teachers received their certificates and will return to Pakse to start work at Pakse Autism Center (PAC). This will allow the recently opened facility to increase the number of children with autism receiving education from currently four to ten. During […]
AfA got support in Australia
On the occasion of the World Autism Awareness Day AfA Board member Ms Viengsam Indavong was very very active in Australia. She wrote from Adelaide: The main focus of the Autism in Laos Awareness and fund raising event is to sell the t-shirt to people mainly people in Adelaide through friends and friends of friends. […]
New Autism Center in Pakse open
Since almost 3 years the Association for Autism is also working in Pakse, one of the provincial capitals in the South of Laos. Support came from different organisations, among them UNDEF and USAID. Especially under the USAID-financed TEAM project AfA conducted many activities in the South, form awareness raising to screening of children with suspected […]
Great success of Autism Awareness Campaign 2016
Every year on April 2nd activists all over the world celebrate the World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD). In Laos we do so since 2011. In many countries marking just one day for autism awareness is not enough as many different activities to disseminate information about the Autism Spectrum Disorder are organised. Association for Autism, the […]
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 […]
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. […]
VAC Renovierung beginnt
Dank der Unterstützung durch die Australische Botschaft in Vientiane kann das Gebäude des Vientiane Autism Center erstmals seit Eröffnung im Jahr 2009 umfassend renoviert werden. Bei dieser Gelegenheit werden auch eine Reihe baulicher Verbesserungen vorgenommen. Das Gebäude wird von den Eltern von Marcel kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt und erlebte seit Eröffnung als VAC schon zwei […]