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    Categories Arts & Culture ASEAN at 50 PWD Files

    Significant change in last 10 years: Autism awareness

    By Charmaine Deogracias  |  Feb 08, 2017 5:27 PM

    Autism advocates have found a good answer to that Miss Universe question asked of Miss Philippines last week: What is the most significant change you have seen in the last 10 years?

    angel's walk, autism, PWD

  • Categories Top Stories

    Angels Walk for Autism lauded as model for ASEAN

    Jan 18, 2016 11:11 AM

    By JAKE SORIANO THE annual Angels Walk for Autism reached new heights Sunday. A record crowd of 15,000 people, bigger than last year’s number, attended the event at the SM Mall of Asia Arena, and among them were around a hundred guests from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region and Japan. “We have […]

    Angels' Walk for Autism, autism, PWDs

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    QC café trains, employs persons with developmental disabilities

    By Text and photos by ALANAH TORRALBA  |  Dec 23, 2015 11:35 AM

    Puzzle Café, which Canoy and her siblings set up in Quezon City a year ago, aims to raise awareness on autism and train persons with developmental disabilities for employment.

    autism, corporate social responsibility, developmental disabilities, Puzzle Café, PWDs

  • Categories News Yahoo

    Thousands don ‘angel wings’ for autism cause

    Jan 28, 2015 12:29 AM

    Text and photos by JAKE SORIANO THE message of the estimated 12,000 “angels with wings” dancing to the beat of Taylor Swift’s pop hit “Shake It Off” was a simple one: awareness, acceptance and inclusion of persons with autism in society. “What we want is for the Philippines to be autism-OK,” said Autism Society of […]

    autism, Disability, PWDs

  • Categories Arts & Culture Yahoo

    Jean Gonzales: Magiting’s mother, ‘magiting’ mother

    May 10, 2014 12:29 PM

    By DARLENE CAY FOR persons with disabilities (PWDs) and their parents, 67-year-old Jean Gonzales is one mother whose dedication not only to her son but also other children with disabilities is unsurpassed. Gonzales has without fail been helping families cope with disabilities for more than a decade through the Philippine Association of Citizens with Developmental […]

    autism, Jean Gonzales, PWDs

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    A mother joins campaign to stop ‘autistic’ joke

    Jan 25, 2013 2:31 PM

    By CHARMAINE DEOGRACIAS THE campaign to raise autism awareness in the country is as old as my son Giancarlo Miguel, he is now 17. From that time that my kid was taunted in a theme park in Laguna for being special and cannot patiently queue like everyone else, back when he was 6, my resolve […]

    Angels Walk 2013, autism

  • Categories Top Stories

    Mom Matec and the boys in her life

    Jul 07, 2012 9:10 PM

    By ELIZABETH LOLARGA

    WHEN her first child Ibarra was born 20 years ago, Matec Villanueva, then 32, felt like she was a Ms. Universe contestant onstage answering a crucial question asked, the question being “What is the essence of a woman?” Her quick answer at that point in her life would have been “Motherhood!”

    autism, PWD, PWDs

  • Categories Top Stories

    Building a special place for adults with autism

    Feb 27, 2012 11:57 PM

    BY YOLANDA L. PUNSALAN

    VERY soon, a special place for special people will rise somewhere in Batangas.

    It will be the answer to the agony of parents with children with autism: who will take care of them when we are no longer around?

    autism, PWD

  • Categories Arts & Culture

    Carlo, angel in our midst

    Jan 18, 2011 12:11 AM

    FIFTEEN-year-old Carlo woke up at 5 a.m last Sunday. While he knew it wasn’t a school day, he got up in his usual way asking for his instant pancit canton for breakfast. There was no resistance this time wearing his P.E. uniform that normally he isn’t so comfortable with. He was off to Mall of Asia at sunrise to join “Angels Walk.”

    autism, PWD

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