Details
Wee Care’s Individual Therapy sessions provide individualised help to children with clinical diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorder, attention-deficit hyperactive disorder, developmental dyspraxia and developmental delay.
Therapy sessions revolve around an Individualised Educational Plan (IEP) that incorporates instruction for the specific child’s most urgent learning requirements. They may include (but are not limited to) the following: prerequisite foundational abilities such as the motivation to learn, a good attention-span and self-control; language & communication skills, basic social skills, such as social exchange and social contingencies; conceptual thought and appropriate and constructive play repertoires.
Children who have shown good progress in Individual Therapy may move on to Group Therapy programmes like Time to Talk, the Social Skills Playgroup and Kidz Club to learn a wider range of social skills or to take on a combination of both Individual and Group
Therapy programmes.
BENEFITS
Individual Therapy sessions provide early assistance to children whose developmental problems may be difficult to overcome in a fast-paced, demanding and stressful society.
With intensive help and a consistent, co-operative structure involving families, schools and Wee Care’s Early Intervention team of dedicated therapists, the ultimate benefits for most children are rehabilitation and integration into mainstream schools and
adult life.
ACTIVITIES and FORMAT
Hourly or two-hourly sessions are conducted once or twice a day, in the child’s home or in our centre for as many times a week as the parent deems necessary or useful up to a maximum of ten (10) sessions per week.
PARENT / CAREGIVER INVOLVEMENT
This is essential. Parents and caregivers (up to a maximum of one adult per child) are encouraged to sit in on learning sessions so that generalisation and maintenance practice sessions can be conducted outside of therapy hours. Families who are consistent in this practice have seen significant progress in their children. In the case of children who are clingy, fretful or distracted, the therapist-in-charge may ask the parents/caregivers to sit outside of the classroom until the child settles into the routine(s) of learning.
CLASS SIZE and EDUCATOR-CHILD RATIO
One educator is assigned to one child in each session.
Wee Care was birthed from a heart that wants the best for infants, toddlers, children with special needs and their parents. Founded in 1996 by teacher and mother of three, Mrs Denise Lai, Wee Care began as a provider of home-based midwifery services to babies and new mothers. Eventually, the services took on an educational nature to ensure that infants and toddlers developed well whilst their parents were at work.
Three years later, Parent-Child PlayGroups were introduced to give working parents the opportunity to develop deeper bonds with their babies and toddlers through motivated, directed and purposeful play. At the same time, Behavioural Management Programmes were added to the fold to provide early assistance to children with special learning needs.
Today, Wee Care stands out among the crowd of educational centres as the home-grown pioneer in research-based Infant Development, Early Childhood Education and Early Intervention Programmes.
It is one of the top centres in Singapore for the rehabilitation of children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and other developmental problems. Child psychologists at the KK Women and Children’s Hospital (KKH) and the National University Hospital (NUH) of Singapore, as well as those at private hospitals and clinics, make regular recommendations to their clients to seek therapy services here. ...
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