Learning disability dominates the neurodivergent landscape in Malaysia.
Learning disability causes stress. Stress can cause learning disability. Pressure from parents and teachers, when skill is still growing, is a major contributing factor to emotional or primitive-reflex induced learning disabilities. We walk with the child — and with the adults around them — so pressure becomes support.
There are about 60,000 registered autistic children in Malaysia, and growing. Collaboration is how inclusion reaches them in classrooms, homes, and workplaces.
See the stress in learning that you never knew for a child.
The Breakthru Approach with 3P.L.A.Y. is a framework that aims to achieve positive growth result in handling high-challenge situations. Developed through more than 15 years of working with children and specially-abled people, this strategical approach seek first to remove the stress for the PARENTS, TEACHERS and CARE-GIVERS as well as the child thus paving way for true growth to happen.
Breakthru Enrichment Station · developmental & transformation centre, SetapakHosted video — original Corporate Profile asset
The Breakthru Approach with 3P.L.A.Y.
Move first. Then play. Then learn. Stress comes off the parent, the teacher, and the child — so real growth can start.
The story of how breakthroughs happen.
The Breakthru Approach with 3P.L.A.Y. is the framework behind this centre. It first takes stress off parents, teachers, and caregivers — then the child. Phoebe Long wrote it through Max’s journey. Paperback, online reading, and classes live at 3play.my.
Visit 3play.myWhat we exist to grow — and how progress is made visible.
This page is written so an ESG-minded partner can see, in one sitting: the social need, the operating model, the 2030 targets, the governance, and the ways to join.
Independence that lasts.
Neurodivergent individuals achieve independence, confidence, and interaction sustainably — as they attain learning abilities in a true safe space. A safe space is built with support and awareness from every party around the child.
Compassionate, individualised, family-first.
Deliver compassionate, individualised intervention and family empowerment so 5,000 neurodivergent children and their families, and 1,000 schools across Malaysia, achieve meaningful progress in communication, self-regulation, and daily living skills by 2030.
Progress families can see.
Goals are planned, tracked, and reviewed with families through a responsive IEP, monthly Parent Consultation Meetings, and a parent web app. When a breakthrough shows at home, it has taken root.
How the work reaches the child, the family, and the wider room.
Bring Hope
Change the room the child has to live in.
We coach families. We train teachers and institutions. We run inclusion seminars. We teach at a distance. We partner with universities. The child cannot carry inclusion alone.
The child
Build differently-abled young people through proven methodology — preparing them for self-sustainable living and to be society-ready.
The family
Consult and coach parents so family dynamics improve, and home becomes a place of skill, warmth, and shared language.
Schools & organisations
Transform culture so classrooms and workplaces become safe space, where difference is welcomed and grown.
Community
Accelerate public recognition of diverse neurotypes, so neurodivergent people are accepted into society as contributors.
Professionals
Run international movement-based training — Brain Gym, Rhythmic Movement Training, Movement Based Learning, Touch for Health, and 3P.L.A.Y.
We equip the adults who walk with the child every day.
ILKKM visitation, 23 March 2023 — one of the hosted films from this page. Skill is also shared with Rotary MAG on Autism teachers across Kuantan, Tawau, Kota Bharu and Selangor; University Malaya Early Childhood Intervention curriculum work; ENT and dental professionals; occupational, family, physio and chiropractic clinicians; university professors; osteopathy; and special-needs educators.
International faculty work spans Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Spain, Canada, England, Germany, Scotland, South Korea and Thailand. Locally, we train JKMM counsellors and psychologists. Courses live at empwr2u.com. Manuals at empwr2u.net. The method in book form: 3play.my.
We build this ecosystem — and invite you into it, so we can equip you to carry the work further.
Station, Academy, P.A.C.E., Diversity, Global — plus the parent portal, bookstore, and training eHub. Collaboration lets us equip schools, companies, and professionals with the same method. We also welcome those who can support the effort with experience, ability, networking, or finance. Watch the ecosystem diagram, then walk the operating maps.
Breakthru Eco Diagram · how the collective is set up and implementedHosted video — original Corporate Profile asset
Social enterprise with a public record you can verify.
Breakthru Academy is an HRD Corp-registered training provider. Breakthru is a recognised Social Enterprise (Asas) and aligns to Malaysia’s social enterprise agenda toward 2030. Founder and chief master trainer Ms Phoebe Long Mei Wah received the ESG Changemaker Award (Social and Community Impact) at the ESG PLUS Awards 2025.
ESG Changemaker 2025
Social and Community Impact · ESG PLUS Awards. Reported by BERNAMA, 11 December 2025.
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Social Enterprise Asas
Registered social enterprise — structured to create lasting social value with partners who walk the journey with us.
SE My 2030
Aligned with Malaysia’s social enterprise pathway — scale that can be partnered, audited, and grown.
Best Special Needs Developmental Centre
BabyTalk + Papamama Reader’s Choice, 2018 — the centre’s public vote of confidence.
Where a CSR or ESG committee can locate our contribution.
Our material contribution is Social — inclusive education and decent work for neurodivergent people — and Governance — social-enterprise structure, HRD Corp training, measurable IEP and family review. That maps clearly to SDG 4 and SDG 8. Partners help us equip more classrooms, workplaces, and families with the same work.
4 · Quality Education
- 4.2 Transformation programmes so girls and boys can access quality early childhood development and be ready for primary school — through institution execution and cultural change.
- 4.4 Vocational training and on-the-job coaching (V.S.P. and Apprentice) for technical and work-readiness skills.
- 4.a Advisory and skills for educators, parents, counsellors, and schools — child-, disability-, and gender-sensitive classrooms.
- 4.c 3P.L.A.Y. and international certifications to increase the supply of teachers qualified for neurodiverse children, including cooperation across developing countries.
8 · Decent Work & Economic Growth
- 8.5 Productive employment and decent work for young people and persons with disabilities — including social-enterprise jobs inside our own operations.
- 8.6 V.S.P. and apprenticeship training so more youth enter employment, education, or training.
- 8.8 Collaboration with companies for neurodivergent-friendly employment — safe, secure work, and genuine contribution.
- BEST Cafe and apprentice pathways put contribution in public: guests are served by our children and young people.
Change the institution, so inclusion is held by the whole room.
Training, syllabus, and cultural change — from international schools and preschools to ministry counsellors and disability NGOs. We invite more organisations to collaborate, so we can equip their people with the method.
Tree Top International School
- Training teachers and management
- Cultural and operational transformation
Society for the Severely Mentally Handicapped
- Facilitator and parents training
- Syllabus and methodology
SJK(C) Sam Yoke
- Teachers and counsellors training
- Awareness, skills, parent coaching
Kementerian Pembangunan Wanita, Keluarga dan Masyarakat
- Counsellors and supervisor training
Globbykids Sdn Bhd
- Skillset impartation to facilitators
- Program planning
My Little World Preschool
- Facilitator skillsets
- Corporate culture transformation
LittleSun Kiddyland
- Facilitators and founder
- Syllabus and educational plan
Tree Top International School
- Training teachers and management
- Cultural and operational transformation
Society for the Severely Mentally Handicapped
- Facilitator and parents training
- Syllabus and methodology
Technology that makes progress visible to the family — and to a partner.
Web-based. No installation. Facilitators, therapists, and parents share one record, so families and partners can see progress as it unfolds.
IEP progress
Goals systematically planned, tracked, and discussed. Parents see current goals and can reinforce them at home.
Monthly PCM
Parent Consultation Meetings — live review of achievements and challenges, with reports online.
Home video coaching
Consistency is the work. Families send behavioural videos; we coach the teaching moments that happen after 5 p.m.
Parent web app
Appointments, calendar, orientation, forms, invoices, newsletter — breakthru.my/parents.
Results after more than a decade — in the parents’ own words.
“The activities improved his expressive vocabulary, reading and writing. He can now communicate with others, understand instructions, is generally more obedient and likes to participate in activities.”
Chong W.M. · Jin Hao’s dad
“He was calmer and a lot less angry. We noticed an amazing change in him. For the first time, he initiated a conversation with his sister by saying ‘How to play?’”
Mrs Chiew · Fu Yen’s mom
这是一个毫无压力，充满无限关爱的学习园地。面对读写障碍的挑战，籍着在中心运用各种健脑操动作以及治疗的帮助，他慢慢突破。
Christine · Jeremy’s mom
“Our relatives were impressed by my daughter’s ability to read and spell difficult words. This Chinese New Year, she again impressed our relatives and helped in the kitchen.”
Joanne · Cassandra’s mom
Bring experience, ability, networking, or finance — and we will equip the collaboration.
We build the ecosystem. We also need people and organisations who can walk with us. Professionals who will stay with exacting, meaningful work. Supporters who open doors through skill, networks, or capital. Corporations ready to collaborate so their CSR and ESG grow real capability in schools, workplaces, and families.
Professionals
Join founder Ms Phoebe Long if you want parents to see their child’s breakthrough — and you are ready for days that are long, work that is exacting, and a method that asks for your best. University interns already learn here; the next generation of facilitators is being welcomed on purpose. Send your CV.
Email CV · bestcentre@hotmail.com WhatsApp +60 12 2858 957Supporters & backers
The method is already in motion. What grows the 2030 targets is people who bring lived experience, professional ability, networking, or finance. P.A.C.E. (Parents And Community Empowerment Association) sponsors families into quality intervention. If you can open a door, a facility, a partnership, or a fund, start a conversation.
Write academy@breakthru.my Visit P.A.C.E. · pace.org.myCorporations
Collaborate on school transformation, teacher training (HRD Corp pathways through the Academy), neurodivergent employment, or public contribution days such as BEST Cafe. We invite the partnership so we can equip your people to carry inclusion with you. Send a first-contact email, then come and see the children at work.
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