Empower Special Needs Youths with Digital Tech to Sustain

The special needs kids in the K-12 level i.e. those with Autism, Asperger's, Down Syndrome, Dyslexia etc. naturally are unable to compete well in academics compared to their peers. Their neurodiversity nature causes them often to be perceived as not being smart or difficult to deal with. They fall in the category of 'learning difficulties' spectrum.

Despite this fact, they continue to be placed in schools and eventually they are left to fend for themselves upon ending school at the age of 18.

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The number of PWD people has increased from 453,258 in year 2017 to 590,000 based on year 2020 data.

These people desperately need help in order to sustain in life and live with dignity.

Our aim is to divert the focus from academics alone to digital tech skills. By them picking up these digital tech skills from a young age, they will be prepared to move in life by taking up tech related jobs or become relevant gig workers later.

The beauty of it is, these Special needs kids are naturally good (most of the time) in digital tech programs, at times far better than the normal ones.

We can prepare them from the young age itself. Early intervention is extremely crucial to gain the maximum benefits and avoid any loss. 

The special needs youths particularly those with Autism and Asperger's syndrome are known to be multi-talented. Once they are given the right guidance and their hidden talent tapped, they're capably of producing wonders.

A direct example are; their ability to design and sell their own services and products Online. Thus making a living for themselves.

From our past projects and assignments, our students has been able to produce wonderful results.

We strongly believe that No individual should be left behind from advancing in today's digital age.

Types of services and products includes; commercial advertisements in 2D format, animated clips, souvenirs, digital-art designs and useful day to day products.

In recent days our present trainees have designed many products, one of it being face mask extenders. It has been well received all over. Presently it has been sold Online to buyers in the whole of Malaysia and also other countries eg. Singapore, UAE, USA, Canada and India. We are currently getting more inquiries from other countries.  In addition it has been supplied to Tesco Malaysia, IJN Foundation, Ministry of Women and Family Affairs, Federation of the Deaf Malaysia, AirAsia and various others.

As for services, our Animation clips in the form of advertisements too has been purchased by corporates. Thus, giving a channel of business to these Special Needs people.

All this has made them able to make a decent living from their hidden talents which we had tapped from younger ages, otherwise which would have gone unnoticed and wasted.

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The whole world is moving towards digitalisation. We strongly believe that no should be left behind. The pandemic has hasten the growth of Gig entrepreneurship. This co-incidentally is a good fit for the special needs people. 

The Special Needs people are known to being unable to socialise, shy, having fear in working outside their comfort area etc. Our solution will enable them to be able to work from home literally and take up the necessary job assignments and get paid accordingly. 

The advancement of technology has enabled the possibility of working from home for everyone including this group of people.

Thus, it is imperative that they should not be left behind in capturing this opportunity.

We strongly believe our solutions will really benefit these vulnerable communities, since it has been proven in our present academy practise.

In addition our psychologist team provides the necessary guidance and assistance whenever needed to ensure each participants benefit the most from our programs.

More info can be obtained on our website  www.InfiniteMindsAcademy.com and also our own multi-vendor mall www.MySpecialMall.com which is dedicated for the Special Needs people only.

Our approach focuses on the strengths of these special needs people. We discount all their other shortcomings.

If given the a chance and opportunity, these group of people are able to do much better the 'normal' people at many times.

Their ability to focus on details and perform repeated tasks of till perfection is indeed commendable especially coming up with ideas and designs which are 'out of the box' types.

Thus we believe and have seen them doing wonderful and going through life changing experience and moving on in life living with dignity.

Our approach focuses on the strengths of these special needs people. We discount all their other shortcomings.

If given the a chance and opportunity, these group of people are able to do much better the 'normal' people at many times.

Their ability to focus on details and perform repeated tasks of till perfection is indeed commendable especially coming up with ideas and designs which are 'out of the box' types.

Thus we believe and have seen them doing wonderful and going through life changing experience and moving on in life living with dignity.

1) In next 1 year to empower an additional 150 new special needs people

2) In the next 3 years to cover atleast 3 countries in this region

3) In the next 5 years to make a global reach

1) Progress of each student in every 3 months

2) Income generated after 18th month

3) Review with all stakeholders quarterly

Our solutions enables people who are marginalised to have an opportunity to make a dignified living.

They have been silently suffering in the background without any real attempt made to uplift or empower them.

We strongly believe with our solutions, they will be able to make a change in their lives by being able to earn independently.

As an example, an autistic person who joined us, aged 31 had been sitting idle in his house over the years since age 19 due to not being able to land a decent job partly due to his academic results and mainly due to his nature which is prone to getting bullied.

However upon joining our classes, he had picked up animation and designing skills in the past 3 years.

This had enabled him to become a freelance animator today and earns a decent monthly income.

Our solution is totally dependent on technology. These programs are based on existing technology and are customised for the special needs people for their benefit. 

The hardware used are mainly personal computers of mid range capacity.

In addition, their completed projects be it services or products are marketed at our specific website known as MySpecialMall.com. This multi-vendor site only markets products of the special needs people only.