A Mother’s Wish 4th Holiday Programme for individuals with moderate to severe autism (June 5th–19th)

Dear everyone:

I am excited to announce our fourth “A Mother’s Wish” (AMW) Holiday Programme for individuals with moderate to severe autism — June 5th to June 19th. 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 of creating 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, June 2015:

• 11 activities (June 5th – 19th).
• Only activities with six participants will run. Targeted participants — individuals with moderate to severe autism, aged 6 and above.
• Priority will be given to participants who sign up for three 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.
• A fun review worksheet will be provided to each participant at the end of the activity. From previous experience, we have found that this is a more “fun” way to get the participants to practise academic learning skills.

Programme Outline:

1. Friday, June 5^th: Creative Arts — Music and Dance
2. Monday, June 8^th: Creative Arts — Making Windchimes
3. Tuesday, June 9^th: Fitness — Frisbee
4. Wednesday, June 10^th: Creative Arts: Making Decorative Paperweights
5. Thursday, June 11^th: Creative Arts — Drama and Movement 
6. Friday, June 12^th: Fitness — Football
7. Monday, June 15^th: Lifeskill — Baking I 
8. Tuesday, June 16^th: Creative Arts — Music 
9. Wednesday, June 17^th: Fitness — Functional Training
10. Thursday, June 18^th: Sensory Creative Arts — Making Aroma Play Dough
11. Friday, June 19^th: Lifeskill — Baking II

To read more about the individual activities and enroll your child, please click here.

To learn more about the service providers, please click here.

Cost: $40 per day

Deadline

• To reserve a spot, please contact us for a registration form. Please return the completed form AND make the payment no later than APRIL 24th, preferably beforehand.
• Only activities with 6 participants will run.

• The spot is reserved ONLY when payment has been made. A receipt will be issued to you. Should there be any cancellations, due to unforeseen circumstances or a lack of participants, payment will be refunded to you promptly.  

• For those who have signed your child up for only two activities, you may lose your reserved spots to those who have signed up for 3 or more activities and a refund will be issued. We genuinely feel that participants and others can best connect with the others when they have participated in at least 3 activities.

Contact: choo.kahying@awakeningminds.com.sg or 8163-4509.

The AMW Fund that allows us to subsidise the holiday programme is principally funded by the sales of Sebastien’s paintings and products inspired by his artwork: 

http://www.awakeningminds.sg/sebs_raw_art.html
http://www.awakeningminds.sg/amw/our_products.html

If you would like to offer a contribution to AMW (100% to AMW), we will send you an A4-sized print of Sebastien’s artwork in return.  

Thank you for your support and please share this email with others who may be interested.

Regards,

Kah Ying