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(Left) SMARTER Staff with the SMTV Crew (Right) SMARTER Brunei President being Interviewed by the SMTV Crew
Bandar Seri Begawan - Supreme Master Television (SMTV), a Taipei station based in the United States, did a special programme about SMARTER Brunei, its students, teachers, parents, and the programmes.
They visited SMARTER's ASD Centre in Sengkurong on Monday morning and began filming straightaway.
Malai Haji Abdullah bin Haji Malai Othman, the president, said SMTV's interest in making a special programme about SMARTER Brunei is an honour. We are pleased that we have reached out on an international level and that even our IWAs were able to be interviewed and shared something about themselves".
SMTV also interviewed two individuals with autism (IWA), 11-year-old Alessandra Chang Kae Shin from SMARTER's Kuala Belait Centre and 16-year-old A'adi Ariffin bin Fazakir from the Brunei Autism Centre for Adults (BACA).
SMTV filmed the Sengkurong SMARTER students doing their everyday subjects like speech training, language, maths, computer, swimming, cooking, arts, and many more.
They saw an IWA, Miguelangelo Q Dimanlig, make a free hand drawing of a mosque, which he gave to the SMTV crew as a gift.
SMTV saw SMARTER's Brunei Autism Centre for Adults (BACA) in Jerudong and filmed the BACA students doing their employment management training. It involves laminating pieces of paper, and steam ironing, sorting, counting and packing away clothes and DVDs for selling in the SMARTER shop.
They filmed the students doing an exercise in the BACA gym. Jonathan Waldron Foo who played the Brunei National Anthem and 'A Whole New World' on his keyboard, entertained them.
SMTV was shown the SMARTER's vans for students with transport difficulties, and for transporting goods to the SMARTER shop. The vans are also mobile classrooms where the students learn on the go.
Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin
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