About us
We stand with parents of autistic children in their crucial role of nurturing their children’s educational and social development. We understand the delicate balance they face, juggling the academic demands of school and fostering their children’s social and communication skills.
Our after-school care program is specifically designed to address these important challenges. Through a holistic approach, we empower your child to flourish in various aspects of their development.
MOE mainstream autism student care centre in Singapore
Unparalleled learner to therapist/teacher ratio of 2:8
We are a team of Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), psychologists, behavior therapists, and special needs educators. Or “ the only after school program in Singapore led by a team of Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), psychologists, behavior therapists, and special needs educators”
Founded 2012
We started our business by providing language services to adults in Singapore. Our plan to include helping autistic children started after the birth of our son.
Our son was born in 2012 and was diagnosed with autism in 2016. The news hit us hard, and we asked many people for advice. People with the best intentions often give us conflicting advice, usually based on personal experience or from someone they know. It was not clinical, and frequently missed out on many important details.
Finding passionate early intervention teachers is challenging. So, back in 2017, we decided to start a website to help parents find the best for their autistic child, from swim coaches to music teachers to someone who can help them academically. It was a simple website, nothing too fancy.
In 2019, when my son started primary school, we realised that there are no after school care centres that focus solely on mainstream autistic children. There are after school care centres that handle autistic kids and also kids of various disorders. This arrangement is not the best as they may neglect a child on the higher spectrum to do well academically. That’s when we decided to start Starlight Centre, and we specialise in caring for kids at the higher end of the spectrum using a clinical-based teaching approach to train them to excel socially and academically.
First mainstream autistic-focused after school care
In 2019, when my son started primary school, we realised that there are no after school care centres that focus solely on mainstream autistic children. There are after school care centres that handle autistic kids and also kids of various disorders. This arrangement is not the best as they may neglect a child on the higher spectrum to do well academically. That’s when we decided to start Starlight Centre, and we specialise in caring for kids at the higher end of the spectrum using a clinical-based teaching approach to train them to excel socially and academically.
The team
Alex Lim
Principal
Candy Lee
Centre Manager
Johnny Fok
Clinical Director
Eve Tang
Head Therapist
Our Mission
To provide quality after school curriculum support for special needs children from Pathlight or mainstream primary school.
Our Vision
To improve the academic standard of Autism children in the MOE curriculum by providing quality after-school curriculum support to achieve happy and well-adjusted school-going children.
Latest News
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The child in the video received love and understanding because he was easily recognisable as different. People quickly realise that something isn't quite right and
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One of their favorite activities at the centre.
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Why am I not at the Starlight Centre in term 1? When we are tired after a day of work, these innocent words give us
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It appears that our students had a busy and enjoyable holiday with their parents.
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If you know someone who can benefit from us and where Starlight Centre is a good fit?
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Tomorrow is the last day of our holiday programme at Autism Resource Centre Singapore / Pathlight School . One week of rest and we will
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Today marks the start of a 5-days conversational Mandarin class at Pathlight. We had two classes of 20 students/class, and they were great! Very attentive
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After completing our holiday program, we have mixed feelings. We are sad that we won't be able to see the kids for 2 weeks, but
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school hours
M-F: 1pm - 6:00pm
Address
20 Kramat Lane #05-05 Singapore 228773
Phone
+65 6589 8582