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Article: Dyslexia Association of Singapore
- Article from:
- Perspectives on Language and Literacy
- Article date:
- April 1, 2009
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Everyone involved with the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS) was delighted when the DAS was appointed a Global Partner of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA). We have come a long way in less than 20 years when in July 1 989 the Rotary Club of Raffles City (Singapore) proposed forming an organization dedicated to helping dyslexies in Singapore.
In 1995 the wife of then Prime Minister of Singapore, Mrs. Goh Chok Tong, became our patron, and Singapore's Ministry of Education provided an initial grant of S$500,000 to set up our first school-based, dyslexia learning center. The DAS continues to work closely with the Ministry of Education whose funding for the DAS in 2007 was S$2.4 ...