Persatuan Dyslexia Malaysia

About Persatuan Dyslexia Malaysia

This association was registered on 23 March 1995 as Persatuan Kesukaran Pembelajaran Spesifik , Wilayah Persekutuan. In the AGM of 2008, the members agreed to change the name to Persatuan Dyslexia Malaysia since membership has exceeded 1,200 members from the whole of Malaysia.

- Advance the education and general welfare of the children and others who are affected by dyslexia and other specific learning disabilities.
- To promote a general awareness and understanding of the problems and needs of children and others with specific learning disabilities and thereby to assist them to obtain specialized diagnosis and treatment so that their disabilities may be remedied as early as possible.
- To persuade appropriate authorities to include in teacher-training courses such instruction as would serve to qualify teachers to recognize in children what may be specific learning disabilties requiring special treatment.
- To promote the establishment of special courses for remedial teacher training and remedial teacher services in places where such facilities do not exist.
- To adopt such measures and take such steps and do all such things as may, in the opinion of the Association, be conducive to the promotion of cordial relations between the Association and kindred associations or persons (whether in Malaysia or elsewhere) interested in any aspect of specific learning disabilities.
- To establish, subscribe or donate to promote, become member of, support or cooperate or amalgamate with any kindred association or body (whether incorporated or not) whose objectives are altogether or in part similar to those of this Association.