The MOE SEN Fund supports full-time Singapore Citizen students with physical or visual impairment (PI/VI), hearing loss (HL) or learning and behavioural (L&B) difficulties who are enrolled in
ITE and polytechnics to purchase
Assistive Technology (AT) devices or support services, if they are professionally certified to require AT devices or support services for their education. This allows students with special educational needs conditions to have equal access to their institutions’ programmes and services, and learn to be independent learners and workers.
Under the current scheme, eligible students with PI or L&B conditions may tap on up to $5,000 from the SEN Fund to purchase necessary AT devices for their education. Eligible students with VI or HL may tap on up to $25,000 to purchase necessary AT devices and services, such as signing interpretation and Braille printing.
Students with HL will also have access to a full subsidy cap of $70,000 under the High Needs category, if they have been assessed by a relevant professional to require Communication Access Services (CAS) such as note-taking and sign-language interpretation services.
Students with PI/VI will be assessed on a case-by-case basis to determine their subsidy amount (up to $70,000) based on the student’s assessed needs.
The
autonomous universities also provide similar levels of financial support for their students with special educational needs, for example, for the purchase of AT devices and support services. Similarly, the
arts institutions provide financial support to their students with special educational needs.
