Autism

[Testimony] After 13 years, he initiated a conversation.

March 31, 2011

My son was diagnosed with autism when he was about 3 years old. We travelled frequently to Kuala Lumpur from Sibu to seek help for him. He went through numerous therapy sessions with established speech therapist, occupational therapist, music therapist, psychologist and others. We eventually moved to Kuala Lumpur as we found that there were […]

[Testimony] Our relatives noticed a lot of changes in her

March 28, 2011

My husband and I learned that our daughter has mild autism when she was 3 years old. Now she is 10 years old. When she was seven years old, we noticed that she was deteriorating in her lessons and had developed behavioural problems. We sought help from Phoebe of Breakthru Kids. In three months, my […]

Does Asperger’s make you a better software coder?

March 1, 2011

source ZDNet. Aspiritech, a non-profit software testing firm hires people with Asperger’s syndrome exclusively, then trains and employs them as software testers. Though a non-profit, Aspiritech performs for-profit work for Websites, software developers and application designers. The company performs compatibility testing, functional testing, regression testing and test-case & test-script development. Aspritech founder Brenda Weitzberg, told ERE’s […]