| About The Society |
| Persatuan Penjagaan Dan Latihan Kanak-Kanak Autistik Hua Ming Wilayah
Persekutuan Kuala Lumpur Dan Selangor which is commonly known as Hua Ming Autism
Society or Hua Ming in short, was established in 1996 by a group of parents of
children with autism. |
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| Hua Ming¨s main objectives, amongst others, are to provide education and
training to children with autism and counselling to their parents. It runs an
activity centre in a rented premise at Petaling Jaya to conduct training
programmes, seminars, workshops and related activities for children with autism
and their parents. |
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| Being a non-profit organisation, Hua Ming depends on public donations to run its
activities and every year it has to organise fund-raising events to meet its
operating expenses. |
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| In its teaching, training and treatment of children with autism, Hua Ming adopts
the TEACCH programme (Treatment and Education of Autistic and Related
Communication Handicapped Children) and ABA programme (Applied Behaviour
Analysis) developed in the U.S.A. |
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| The primary goal of these programmes is to help to prepare people with autism to
live and work more effectively at home, at school and in the community. Special
emphasis is placed on helping people with autism and their families to live
together more effectively by reducing or removing autistic behaviours. Parents
are trained to work with their children to mange behaviour problems and improve
learning, social and language skills. |
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| In near future, Hua Ming aims to promote public awareness and concern of autism
by playing a proactive role in educating the public hoping that they will have
better understanding and acceptance of people with autism. Hua Ming also plans
to set up an Academy of Autism to train and develop more teachers and trainers
in the field of autism. |