My son is 12 now. He's has Down Syndrome. He's been going to a special class in a normal SK in Cheras since Standard 1. Not many schools in this area with special classes but the one that had was luckily fairly close to our house. Before that he went to Kiwanis in PJ a couple a times a week.

He's been through a lot. He had 2 holes in his heart (AVSD) and had an op when he was 5 mths old to fix them. I still remember the number of tubes sticking into him after the op. You could hardly see the baby behind all that. 3 more ops after that due to complications. Countless cases of pneumonia when he was young. Stepping on my my iPhone 2G when he was 7. But he's much better now especially since he became a big brother 5 yrs ago to his little sister. Those 2 are inseparable. Just this morning, he walked his sister, holding her hand, from the car to her kindergarden entrance just like any big brother.

I'm so proud of him.