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Saturday, September 19, 2015

A Mother's Wish Holiday Programme for individuals with moderate to severe autism, Nov 30-Dec 15

Dear everyone

I am excited to announce our fifth A Mother’s Wish” (AMW) Holiday Programme for individuals with moderate to severe autism — Nov 30th to Dec 15th. The AMW fund and the families of the participants will share in the costs.

The holiday programme concept constitutes our baby steps towards the ultimate vision ofcreating a community that provides affordable quality programmes for youths and adults with moderate to severe autism all-year-round.

Through the holiday programmes, we hope to offer an experience of AMW’s model of collective caregiving that spreads the responsibility of caring for individuals with autism across the community.


Concise Overview of Holiday Programme, Nov-Dec 2015
  • 12 activities (Nov 30th – Dec 15th).
  • Only activities with six participants will run. 
  • Targeted participants — individuals with moderate to severe autismaged 6 and above. Priority  to participants who sign up for 3 or more activities. 
  • Duration: 1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m, unless otherwise stated [approx. 2 hours programming & 1-hour travel time].
  • Public transport component: Participants will travel by public transport, under supervision (1 assistant/volunteer: 1 participant), to participate in ONE activity on each day of the holiday programme.
  • Academic component: fun review worksheet (customised for each activity) will be provided to each participant at the end of the activity. 
  • Cost: $40 per day
  • Deadline: Please return the completed form AND make the payment to reserve your spot no later than October 31st, preferably beforehand.  A receipt will be issued to you. Should there be any cancellations, payment will be refunded to you promptly. 
  • Contactchoo.kahying@awakeningminds.com.sg or 8163-4509.
Programme Outline:
Monday, Nov 30th: Creative Arts — Making Vegetable Print Wrapping Paper
Tuesday, Dec 1stCreative Arts — Embodied Movement
Wednesday, Dec 2nd: Wellness — Bodywork and Massage Techniques
Thursday, Dec 3rdCreative Arts — Music
Friday, Dec 4th: Lifeskill — Baking I
Monday, Dec 7th:  Creative Arts — Making Creative Gift Tags
Tuesday, Dec 8thFitness — Physical Cooperative Activities
Wednesday, Dec 9thFitness — Functional Training
Thursday, Dec 10th:  Creative Arts — Drama and Movement
Friday, Dec 11th: Lifeskill — Baking II
Monday, Dec 14thFitness & Wellness — Yoga
Tuesday, Dec 15th: Creative Arts — Music and Dance

Read more about the individual activity and enrol your childhttp://awakeningminds.sg/a_mothers_wish_dec_2015.html

The AMW Fund allows us to subsidise the holiday programme and keep the rate at $40, while compensating our service providers, assistants and coordinator fairly. Find out all the different ways that you can help AMW: http://awakeningminds.sg/amw/participate/how_to.html

Please feel free to share this email with others.

Cheers,

Kah Ying

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