Our Facilities / Activities
Facilities
The Association manages a Spastic Centre which provides free transport, education and treatment (physiotheraphy, occupational therapy and speech therapy) for over 250 children living in Selangor and Federal Territory at the cost of about RM2.0 million a year.
Spastic children are admitteed at an early age. Parents are encouraged to bring their children as early as possible (including babies). Children of schoolong age are admitted at the school section while younger children are gien outpatient treatment. The school section carries out both teeaching and extra curricular activities including sports, concerts, swimming, outings, horse riding, gardening and needle work. Young adults are employed in the sheltered workshop. The Association runs a fleet of 7 vehicles to transport the children from thier homes to the Centre and vice-versa.
The Admission Department is assisted by a team of child specialists and our accounts are maintained by a firm of corporate accountants (Symphony Corporatehouse Sdn. Bhd) and Auditors (Price Waterhouse Coopers).
Sport
The Association provides ample opportunities for the spastic children to participate in sporting activities. The children have exvelled in national. regional and international sports meets inlcuding the Paralympics, Far East and South Pacific Game For Disabled, World (Robin Hood) Games For Cerebral Palsy, Singapore National Sports for the Disabled and our own National Sports for the Disabled.
YABhg Datin Paduka Seri Rosmah Mansor officiated at the handing-over ceremony of the Malaysian Flag to our National Boccia Team for the 1st Asia & South Pacific Boccia Championships in 2005.
Success Story
Cerebral palsy is a disorder of movement and posture caused by a non-progressive lesion of the brain near the time of birth or during infancy. It affect approximately 1 in 800 children. Children with cerebral palsy are like any other children – they want to enjoy life as much as anyone. Define them not by their limitations, but by who they are, and what they have achieved and can achieve.
Our Golden boy – swimmer Wong Chee Kin, a C. P. diaplegic. A product of the opportunities available to him at the Spastic Centre. He won more than a quarter million in prize money in national and international competitions.