Autism in April: The Month to Raise Awarenes, Empathy and Support The month of April has globally recognized as the month of autism awareness. With this years’s theme – “Inclusion in the Workplace”, our attention is drawn to the long journey of raising awareness regarding this condition, which is still commonly misunderstood by many. Autism

Psychological First Aid: Assisting Individual in Crisis Each year in October, the world celebrates World Mental Health Day as a day to remind us the importance of mental health for all. This year is particularly noteworthy as we are stepping away from the challenges that we had during the pandemic and move forward with hopefully, a better perspecti

Knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of response to environmental stress is fundamental for the development of genetically stress-tolerant crops. This study aims to find vegetable soybean accessions tolerant to cultivation in stressful tropical environments. Fourteen accessions of the vegetable soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) were grown in mine

The selection of material is important in the development of a paediatric speech perception test. Even though several studies have documented various sources of speech testing materials, using corpus was recommended to develop a Matrix Sentence Test (MST). However, as available Malay corpus was limited to written words only, this research aims to c

Objective: To assess Malaysian dental therapists’ job satisfaction, motivation, turnover intention and perceived future roles, following recent changes in the regulations that allow them to provide dental care within their scope of practice in the private sector. Methods: A self-administered questionnaire was distributed to public dental therapis

iTherapy is an automatedweb-based system for the head of therapist and therapist of Penawar Special Learning Centre (PSLC) to produce atherapy plan automatically. PSLC is a centre that assists children with learning disabilities in overcoming their problems by providing a set of therapy treatments. They have nine branches all over Malaysia. It is a

Suku kaum Jakun merupakan salah satu suku kaum Orang Asli di Malaysia. Masyarakat Orang Asli khususnya kaum Jakun ini mempunyai dialeknya yang tersendiri. Dialek yang dituturkan oleh mereka ini sememangnya mempunyai perbezaan dengan dialek yang lain malah perbezaan cara sebutan juga turut dikesan dalam kalangan mereka sendiri yang datang dari kaum

Dear Editor, We read with great interest the article by Ocal, et al. [1] that studied cervical vestibular evoked myogenic potential (cVEMP) results elicited by the conventional 500 Hz tone burst (TB) and narrow band Claus Elberling (CE)-chirp stimulus (360-720 Hz) among heathy adults. The chirp stimulus was found to produce significantly earlier P1

Bullying is when someone repeatedly and on purpose says or does mean and hurtful things to another person who has a hard time defending himself or herself (Olweus 1993, Smith & Sharp 1994). The key feature is its intention to cause harm to others involving threats, rumours, physical, verbal, online, and/or purposely excluding some from the grou

ADHD or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder is a type of neurodevelopmental disorder that occurs in children during their developmental phase. The condition is characterised by two groups of symptoms, namely hyperactive and impulsive, as well as the lack of ability to focus and concentrate. Although being active and having poor attention span