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Image Credit: Arisa Chattasa on Unsplash This article was first published on February 11, 2021. The Southeast Asian (SEA) tech startup ecosystem can play a crucial role in building a more inclusive society for people with disabilities through the innovation that they create. By helping people with disabilities and their caregiver perform their daily routine, startups are even able to help them seize opportunities that are otherwise barred from them. In order to achieve that goal, collaboration with different parties is encouraged to help startups access their potential users –and get a better understanding of their needs. SG Enable, a...

If you are one of the many parents about to embark on your first year of homeschool, you may be wondering what you can do this summer to set yourself up for success. (That is, assuming you choose to begin this fall. Ah, sweet freedom.) While there is no definitive way, as homeschooling is by nature something that you can customize for the needs of your family and individual children, here are some suggestions. Shift your Mindset Homeschooling requires a bit of a mindset shift away from the traditional model of school and into an environment of individualized, family-centric, free...

We all know that a yoga practice builds strength, flexibility, and co-ordination. Did you know you can also use the ancient practice to build literacy skills for even our youngest yogis? Yoga teaches sequential thinking and planning: Listening to and following instructions on how to do a pose reinforces the idea that there is a proper order of events. You can not balance in Crow pose if you do not set it up correctly. It is the same with building sentences! Sentence structure and syntax matter to sentence meaning and understanding. Sequential thinking is also important to appreciating the plot...

Book:  A Lady in AttendanceAuthor: Rachel FordhamGenre: Christian HistoricalRelease date: June 1, 2021Will the Past Destroy Her Future?  Ada, Mi.—Rachel Fordham’s historical novels have received high praise for their warm and engaging story lines filled with romance, adventure, and happy endings. In A Lady in Attendance, Fordham beautifully blends these same great features in a novel about overcoming obstacles in the past to make room for a better future.After spending the last five years in a New York state reformatory, Hazel is desperate to begin life anew, but she knows that a tarnished name could ruin her chances. She accepts a job as Doctor...

Book:  Faces of CourageAuthor: Susan K. BeattyGenre: Christian Woman’s FictionRelease date: May 11, 2021Fear strangles even the faithful sometimes.Despite every attempt to be brave, fear has defined Olivia Stanford’s life: with each new foster home, when her adopted parents died leaving her all alone again, trusting and marrying her husband, Frank, and coping with his football injuries and career loss.Without faith, fear only grows in the face of adversity.When Frank becomes abusive, Olivia enters a terror-filled life in her upscale Southern California home. Common sense demands she dig deep for the courage to confront him–to demand change. Fear and confusion push back.And just as courage...