KIDSPACE LEARNING PLACE - Key Persons
Carol is a performing musician as well as a qualified music teacher well versed in early childhood pedagogy. She has over 20 years of music teaching experience. Other than her music qualifications, Carol also holds a Diploma in Special Education and is completing her Specialist Diploma in Psychology, Early Childhood. She is very passionate about her work with children with various special needs and learning difficulties, and always aims to use music and the arts to help these children enhance their motor, cognitive, and sensory processing skills. Many children warm up to Carol easily given her approachable and bubbly nature. Her lessons are creative and full of energy.
B.Bus (Applied Economics)Jasline has been an early childhood educator for more than 10 years. She has conducted phonics and early literacy enrichment programmes for preschoolers, involved in designing and developing preschool curriculum for enrichment centres and taught in a Montessori preschool. She has also operated an infant and childcare centre. Jasline's encounter with children with special needs started when she was with NTU's Welfare Services Club. She was actively involved in the club's various projects including children and youths with intellectual disabilities and hearing impairment. Jasline left the financial sector for a full-time job in the social service sector in 2003, involved in programmes and services planning for the disability sector. Her passion for helping children and youths with special needs was since ignited.Throughout the years of working with children and youths and listening to parents of children with special needs, Jasline started Kidspace with a simple objective - to make quality programmes and services accessible to children with special learning needs. She hopes to use her experience and expertise to enhance the learning experience of these children and to help educational institutions become better equipped in handling them.