Like many teenagers, Ella Warren-Roberts, 14, is very creative. She makes slate jewellery, she does woodcutting, and paints in watercolours. “She always has more than one project on the go,” says her proud mother, Glenda Roberts. “And she always completes them.” “So I don’t get too stressed out on one thing, I can relax by doing another,” says Ella. This lively, cheerful teenager also really likes science but, until recently, she wasn’t able to shine at it.

Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat mengeratkan kerjasama dengan Prasarana Malaysia Bhd, bagi menangani isu utama membabitkan salahguna lif, kawasan parkir dan tandas yang dikhaskan untuk golongan Orang Kurang Upaya (OKU) oleh orang awam. Timbalan Menterinya, Hannah Yeoh, berkata sesi dialog bersama golongan OKU di kementeriannya di Putrajaya semalam mendapati bahawa ketiga-tiga isu ini antara masalah yang sering diutarakan golongan berkenaan.

The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry together with Prasarana Malaysia Berhad are working together to solve issues affecting persons with disabilities (OKU) at its premises. Its deputy minister Hannah Yeoh said following a meeting with Prasarana, they found that the three main issues affecting the OKU community are the elevator facilities, the misuse of OKU parking spaces and toilets.

Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat (KPWKM) akan memperhalusi dan meneliti sebarang penambahbaikan yang diperoleh sebahagian badan bukan kerajaan (NGO) yang mewakili kumpulan sasar melalui konsultasi input Bajet 2020.

Dua pusat Independent Living Centre (ILC) akan ditubuhkan pada tahun ini sebagai inisiatif terbaru kerajaan dalam memperkasa golongan orang kurang upaya (OKU) di negara ini, kata Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat (KPWKM).

Optometrist and founder of Nolke Opticians, Kjell Nolke, and international business development and sales manager at OrCam, Leon Paull, discuss providing technology as a solution to patients.

A new home in Brighton East, Victoria, is offering people with an intellectual disability an improved level of accommodation and support courtesy of assistive technology.
Built by disability care provider St John of God Accord, the house features assistive technology developed by Quantify Technology and other partners, to give those with an intellectual disability an improved quality of life.

Seramai 15 orang kurang upaya (OKU) pelbagai kategori terpilih akan bertarung meraih pingat emas dalam Pertandingan Antarabangsa Abilimpian ke-10 bagi menonjolkan kemahiran dalam bidang vokasional, di Moscow, Russia tahun depan.