Acknowledgements The Campus Community Engagement (CCE) program is a voluntary initiative by Monash University Malaysia spanning from December 2019 to April 2020. Due to the Covid-19 outbreak, the final presentation date was pushed back from February to April 2020. The purpose of the program is to identify an issue/issues at a NGO and combine the talents of multi-disciplinary students to propose a potential solution to said issue. Our group consists of the three of us, Daniel Goh U-Sheng (School of Information Technology), Wong Keen Ji (School of Me dicine & Health Sciences, Psychology) and Aaron Ng Shong Po (School of Medicine & Health Sciences, Psychology), whereby we were placed under the agency called Pertubuhan Keluarga Orang-Orang Bermasalah Pembelajaran (PERKOBP). The General Secretary of PERKOBP, Mr Chng Cheng Hui, was our Field Educator (FE), and the lecturer overseeing us, Dr Goh Pei Hwa from the School of Medicine & Health Sciences who is a Psych...
We hope our Perkobp model would stimulate parents of children with learning difficulties to come together to form self-help centres of their own to benefit their special needs children. We need more such centres to cater for our adult special needs who cannot fit into the open market.
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