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The painting class will start from 1st June 2013 星儿绘画班即将在六月1日正式开班:

Every Sunday (5:00pm – 7:00pm)
每逢星期日 (5:00pm – 7:00pm)

*You may also choose to attend all classes for consistent learning. 您也可以选择报名每一堂课持续学习。

Venue 地点: Yayasan Nanyang Press 南洋报业基金
No 1, Jalan SS 7/2
47301 Petaling Jaya
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Malaysia

Free Entry (registration is required) 入场免费(须报名)

Note: This program is specially dedicated for autistic people (8 yr – 21 yr) who are from families with financial difficulties. 此绘画班主要针对一些较穷困的自闭症患者，绘画班会分为两班红班和黄班，每班不超过20位学生上课，学生每月只上一堂课而每堂课为两小时，因此学 生可以依据自己的时间自由选择进红班或黄班。

迄今全球大约有 6700 万人患上自闭症，它是世界上人数增长最快的严重性发展缺陷，因为被诊断为自闭症的儿童人数，将远远超过糖尿病、癌症及爱滋病确诊病例的总和。自闭症是一种神经系统失调造成的发展障碍，主要表现在沟通、社交及行为上的发展迟缓或缺损。

每位人都有着无限创意的可能，对于一般普通人来说或许很容易发挥和培育出他们的创意，但自闭症病患来说可就没有那么幸运了，因为他们不擅长表达自己，他们无法让人了解，久而久之就被遗忘、冷落、甚至放弃，也因为这样他们无法创造自己的可能和活得更有意义。

绘画能让人通过挥洒创意交到朋友，增进亲子间的感情，训练社交技能，也对各方面的能力培养都能起到促进的作用。但一般的绘画班的学费相当昂贵，对于一些患有自闭症的小康之家来说，要上绘画班是个奢侈的兴趣，也因此有许多较穷困家又患有自闭的病患，会因此而打消送孩子去绘画班的念头。

南洋报业基金本着追求“志趣“的精神，希望能够让更加多的自闭症病患能够透过绘画来表达自己，让这些躲在世界角落的他们勇于走出来，透过他们的画画，让更多人了解他们内心的灿烂、美丽与精彩。基金特别请来了绘画老师朱威龙，於6月起每逢星期日 5.00pm-7.00pm，免费的为家庭穷困家中又有患上自闭症的人授课。透过这绘画班，基金希望能让更加多的穷困病患受惠，让他们有一技之长。

自闭症病患有个可爱的昵称 – “星儿“， 因为他们就像高挂天边的星星一样，一闪一闪地让人难以捉摸。绘画班以“星儿“命名，就是代表着，他们灿烂的内心世界，但一般的人是无法看到和接触，透过南洋报业基金设立的绘画班，希望他们可以学到画画的技巧，在透过自己所画的画与他人沟通，分享自己的内心世界。

此绘画班主要针对一些较穷困的自闭症患者，每班不超过20位学生上课，每堂课为两小时。

以此同时南洋报业基金目前也招收义工当绘画老师，只要义工有教导和绘画的能力，同时拥有着爱心，您就是本基金要寻找的人，慕求此计划能更加顺利以及能让更多的自闭病患者能受惠，欢迎义工老师们的加入。

欲知详情或报名， 请将您的个人资料 或电邮至 nyfound@nanyang.com.my。欢迎拨打 03-76508651 / 694 / 675 / 669，或游览南洋报业基金网站 www.yayasan-nanyang.org 以查获更多详情。

To date, there are approximately 6700 people in this world who suffer from autism. It is known as one of the highest growth rates in serious congenital defects. This is due to the fact that the number of children being diagnosed with autism are always far more than patients with diabetes, cancer and AIDS. Autism is a neurological disorder that causes a development disorder marked by difficulties with social interaction and communication.

Everyone has his or her own creativity and imagination, which ordinary people may express easily. However, this is not the case with people with autism; they are unable to express their thoughts easily, causing others to have difficulty in understanding them. They are eventually neglected or even abandoned by others who refuse to spare a little more time and patience on them. As a result, autistic people could not discover themselves and lose their life objective.

Painting can help nurture one’s creativity. It helps to enhance the relationship between parents and their children, and encourage autistic people to make more friends. Painting could be seen as a channel to improve social interaction and communication, as well as develop different abilities for autistic people. Unfortunately, painting classes can be expensive even for well-to-do families. As such, poor families that have autistic children will not think of sending their children for painting classes.

Yayasan Nanyang Press wishes to create more opportunities for autistic people to learn painting and express themselves through painting. Painting would be used as a tool for those autistic people to express their feelings. Yayasan Nanyang Press has invited one of the famous art teachers to provide free painting classes to those poorer families with autistic children, starting from June 2013 onwards. Yayasan Nanyang Press aims to create an opportunity for those autistic people to learn painting.

Autistic people have been given a lovely nickname – “Children of the Star”. They are described as a twinkling star so high in the sky that no one could actually understand what they are thinking. The painting classes organised by Yayasan Nanyang Press are named as Children of the Star, to resemble their sparkling inner world which no one is able to understand. Through the painting classes, autistic people can learn painting techniques and to learn how to communicate with others through their paintings.

These painting classes would primarily focus on poorer families with autistic children. The number of students in each class would not exceed 20 people. The classes would be held once a month, each class for a duration of 2 hours.

In the meantime, Yayasan Nanyang Press wishes to recruit more volunteers as art teachers. If you have the ability to draw and to teach with patience and care, you are the one we are looking for.

For more enquiries, please send in your details to nyfound@nanyang.com.my or call 03-76508651 / 694 / 675 / 669. Alternatively, kindly surf our website www.yayasan-nanyang.org for more information.