Debate on President’s Address: Don Wee on support for Singaporeans with autism
The Government should expedite the setting up of national infrastructure to provide holistic support for Singaporeans with autism from diagnosis to end of life, said MP Don Wee in Parliament on Tuesday (Apr 18). This would include public education to increase awareness among parents to diagnose their children as soon as possible, ensuring treatment and therapy at optimal frequency as well as access to insurance coverage and subsidies for lower-income families, more activity and care centres for both children and adults with autism so that their caregivers can work or get respite, and advance planning to establish care arrangements for those who need it once their ageing parents can no longer look after them. Mr Wee also called for more support for SMEs, including reviewing the foreign worker permit quota to tackle manpower shortages in specific sectors. He asked if the Government would consider publicising how companies have tapped Institutes of Higher Learning or national R&D agency A*STAR, as well as platforms such as the Global Innovation Alliance, to inspire more Singaporeans to consider entrepreneurship.
The Government should expedite the setting up of national infrastructure to provide holistic support for Singaporeans with autism from diagnosis to end of life, said MP Don Wee in Parliament on Tuesday (Apr 18). This would include public education to increase awareness among parents to diagnose their children as soon as possible, ensuring treatment and therapy at optimal frequency as well as access to insurance coverage and subsidies for lower-income families, more activity and care centres for both children and adults with autism so that their caregivers can work or get respite, and advance planning to establish care arrangements for those who need it once their ageing parents can no longer look after them. Mr Wee also called for more support for SMEs, including reviewing the foreign worker permit quota to tackle manpower shortages in specific sectors. He asked if the Government would consider publicising how companies have tapped Institutes of Higher Learning or national R&D agency A*STAR, as well as platforms such as the Global Innovation Alliance, to inspire more Singaporeans to consider entrepreneurship.
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