SINGAPORE – In secondary school, Mr Thaddaeus John Tham Yong Yi struggled with spelling and grammar. He was barely passing his English composition essays.

Mr Tham has dyslexia, an invisible disability that affects his reading and writing skills.

Unaware of his condition, his classmates wondered why he was poor in the English language.

When he later entered Ngee Ann Polytechnic to study biomedical engineering, the feeling of isolation deepened.

This changed when he found help from TomoWork, a Singapore charity which advocates disability inclusion at companies.

Mr Tham, 20, has now stepped up to help raise awareness of people with invisible disabilities like himself.