Come learn about nurturing gifted children intellectually and emotionally.
This forum is for parents and gifted children who are seeking insight into how best to navigate the exciting and incredibly unique journey of nurturing your gifted children.
Come discover the beginning of a budding community of parents and gifted children as we come together to find peers navigating our similar but unique journey of nurturing our gifted children.
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The goals of the Malaysian Mensa Society are to identify and foster intelligence for the benefit of society.
Come discover the beginning of a budding community of parents and gifted children as we come together to find peers navigating our similar but unique journey of nurturing our gifted children.
Oasis Place is one of the Official Partners for Gifted Children Assessment. Please visit mensa.my/gifted for more information.
Parent Forum Sessions
Life In Overdrive: Gifted Children and Anxiety
Ong Su Sen – Clinical Psychologist
This session will discuss anxiety triggers in gifted children, as well as some strategies for parents to better support their child’s heightened emotional states. Areas that will be covered include overthinking and perfectionism.
Building Executives of Function
Lee Chui-Ki – Occupational Therapist
Children are not born with executive functioning skills but they are born with the potential to develop them. What is executive functioning? How can we help our children develop them? This session aims to answer these questions.
Parent Forum: Raising a Gifted Child
Prakash Ravindran – Clinical Psychologist
In this forum, we will hear from two parents on their ongoing journey nurturing a gifted child. We will discuss some of the challenges they faced and how they overcame them.
Understanding, Supporting, and Advocating for the 2e Child in the Classroom !
Carin Rowland – Individualized Learning Support Manager
Carin is a Case manager for middle school students on an individualised learning support plan. She provides coaching for students and teachers, developing strategies and supports to optimise learning. She is a Life-long learner and educator. Passionate about international education, learner support, and literature.
Breakout Activity for Children
Sensory Scavenger Hunt
Esther Lim – Speech Language Pathologist
In this session, participants will be unlocking “social codes” through stories, videos and activities, which allow them to learn about themselves and others within a variety of social contexts.
Growing a Growth Mindset
Esther Lim – Speech Language Pathologist
Children will demonstrate the model they created and describe how it relates to their learning during the social camp activity.
Forum Speakers
Prakash Ravindran
Prakash is a Clinical Psychologist from Kuala Lumpur with an undergraduate degree in Psychology (BSc Hons) and Masters of Clinical Psychology from HELP University. He is well versed in the diagnostic tools needed in assessing, reporting, diagnosing and treating children with developmental conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD and other learning disabilities. Prakash leads Oasis Place’s Social Thinking and Malaysia Day Camp and also plans and facilitates social communication sessions across age groups. Prakash conducts workshops, trainings and has been guest speaker on radio stations like BFM. Prakash is registered with the Malaysia Society of Clinical Psychology (MSCP) and is proficient in English and Malay.
Esther Lim
Esther received her Bachelor’s Degree in Speech Pathology from Flinders University in South Australia where she also worked as a Speech Therapist in children’s hospitals, rehabilitation hospitals, private clinics and schools. Esther has worked with a range of communication needs including articulation, language, pre-verbal skills, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) and stuttering. Esther is passionate about play-based therapies and believes that working collaboratively with families and allied professionals is crucial for successful intervention. Esther is registered with the Malaysian Association of Speech-Language & Hearing (MASH) and is proficient in English and Bahasa Malaysia. She is a Hanen-Certified Speech-Language Pathologist in the More Than Words® Hanen Program offered via OPConnect or onsite.
Ong Su Sen
Su Sen is a Clinical Psychologist with a Masters in Clinical Psychology from The National University of Malaysia and a Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours) from The University of Queensland. Su Sen provides psychological assessments and psychotherapy for children, adolescents and adults with autism, ADHD, behavioural difficulties, phobias, traumatic experiences and emotional issues. She believes in using an integrative approach to psychotherapy, applying different well-established therapeutic approaches to promote changes in the client. Some of the approaches she has been trained in delivering includes Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), behavioural therapy, expressive art therapy and the Social Thinking curriculum. Besides that, she is registered with the Malaysia Society of Clinical Psychology (MSCP) and is proficient in English, Bahasa Malaysia and Mandarin.
Lee Chui-Ki
Chui-Ki has a Bachelor’s Degree of Applied Science (Occupational Therapy) from the University of South Australia where she worked in a variety of fields including Geriatrics, Acute Rehabilitation and Mental Health. After graduating, Chui-Ki further explored paediatric occupational therapy and has since worked with children from a variety of age groups, backgrounds and challenges. Chui-Ki believes in the importance of play, meaningful activities and flexibility when working with children – allowing them to explore, learn and develop new skills. She conducts executive functioning sessions for school age and teenage clients both in person and online. Chui Ki co-designed Oasis Place’s programmes “Movement to Mindfulness” (M2M) and “Cool, Focused, Organised” (CFO) amongst others; and is fondly known as “Kiki”. She is certified in the Program of Essential Competencies in Sensory Integration (PECSI) and has a Yoga Alliance Certification. Chui Ki is registered with the Malaysian Occupational Therapists Association (MOTA) and is proficient in English and Bahasa Malaysia.
Carin Roylance
Carin is a Case manager for middle school students on an individualised learning support plan. She provides coaching for students and teachers, developing strategies and supports to optimise learning. She is a Life-long learner and educator. Passionate about international education, learner support, and literature.