For Mother's Day, we speak to this dynamic mama of four who is also the founder of health centre Brainworks and is an autism and brain health consultant
Mother's Day is a time to honour the incredible women around us who seamlessly juggle work and motherhood, who make sacrifices and who perpetually put their families ahead of themselves.
This Mother's Day, we decided to speak to a mum who is out there doing everything for her kids and sharing everything she has learnt with other parents and kids in Singapore and around the world.
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Dr Deibby Mamahit is an autism and brain health consultant who has four kids of her own. When two of her kids were very young, they were diagnosed with autism. This led Dr Deibby down the rabbit hole of autism information, support, therapies and more.
However, this fearless mum was unsatisfied with what she could find here and decided to travel around the world to engage some of the world's best doctors and specialists to find answers for her beloved kids.
She later brought everything she learnt back home to her kids and decided to share what she had learnt with other parents through talks, conferences and Brainworks, a health centre that she founded to help parents and children learn about autism. Brainworks provides neurophysiological testing, comprehensive examinations and support to kids who need it.
Read on to find out more about the incredible Dr Deibby Mamahit and her health centre.
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When and how did you find out that your kids had Autism?
DM It was at the end of 2008. My eldest was two years and 10 months old and my younger one was one year and six months old.
What did you do when they got diagnosed?
DM As parents, we wanted to be wrong. We wanted to believe that there was nothing wrong with our kids and that we were just making things up. So after this period of denial, we knew we need to do something. So we went to try to get the diagnosis confirmed. It sounds easy but it turns out that we really couldn't get the diagnosis right away.
It was not easy to get them diagnosed because it was deemed too early. So we didn’t get a formal autism diagnosis until they were at preschool age. My husband and I are both medically trained. So, when they were diagnosed with speech delay and global developmental delay, we knew that there was something more to it. Speech delay and global developmental delay is an official autism diagnosis.
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