Having 6 weeks of hospital leave is great. i couldn’t afford to allow my brain to sink into a quagmire of hibernation, the workaholic in me wrote down a seemingly endless list of to-do things for the Big ‘Break’! Reading up bks, journals, digesting Sara Rosenfeld’s talk level 2 & other paraphernalia that i never got around to & of course, setting up my EBAY account!
Guess what’s rolling in the dough for private practices in Singapore?
Official Statistics (estimated based on 40,000 births per cohort) :
- Dyslexia (23,000)- 4% to 10 % of the population.
- Intellectual disabilities (15,200)
- Hearing Impairment (4,560)- 6 in every 1000 children
- Autism (4,550) -1 out of every 167 children born.
- Cerebral Palsy (1,520)-2 per 1000 in the population.
- *Down Syndrome (900)-1.17 per 1000 births (My fav !)
Others: Physical disabilities(2,500), muscular dystrophy & related neuromuscular diseases(220), visual impairment (480).
An astute clinician would undoubtedly skew her interests towards this increasing demand in the special needs population. Jane’s sittin for her ’O’ level oral exams this wed- i’ve done my job as a sis testing her!
Can”t wait for Sex and the City to start! Really wanna try Mimolette at Eng Neo Ave one day!
Vince’s fruit basket was a pleasant surprise.
