Leaena Tambyah, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Leaena Tambyah

special education and disability rights advocate

Date of Birth: 28-Jun-1937

Place of Birth: Penang, Malaysia

Profession: activist

Nationality: Singapore

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Leaena Tambyah (born 28 June 1937) is a special education advocate who founded Singapore's first school for children with multiple disabilities.
The school was originally called the Handicapped Children's Playgroup, but went on to become the AWWA School.
Tambyah also founded a programme called TEACH ME (Therapy and Educational Assistance for Children in Mainstream Education) to try to bring disabled children into mainstream schools, and to provide mobile therapy services to children whose families could not afford to bring them to a hospital.