Details
Wee Care’s Social Skills Playgroup programme is an innovative way to help special children learn skills that are required to function and adapt appropriately to social demands and settings. The primary focus of this programme is the development of the following skills:
- Social Interactive skills such as eye-contact;
- Social Communication skills such as greeting others and responding to social questions;
- Social Play skills such as shared interest, peer imitation and turn-taking.
In addition, activities that develop creativity and spontaneity are incorporated regularly into the programme. All these enable the children to develop a broad range of abilities that are difficult to achieve through standard one-to-one and traditional forms
of instruction.
BENEFITS
Children who attend the Social Skills Playgroup programme have been observed to grow in their desire to relate socially with both adults and their peers.
In addition, appropriate forms of social behaviour such as sharing, waiting and taking turns develop whilst inappropriate ones decrease.
ACTIVITIES and FORMAT
Hour-long sessions are conducted weekly at Wee Care. These often incorporate the use of visual schedules to redirect and manage a child’s impulses or behavioural acts of non-compliance and rigidities. Children are encouraged to move from learning centre to centre where objectives in social thinking, imaginative play and sensory/fine-motor skills are pursued.
Group games encourage skills in requesting, commenting, joint attention, social cooperation and imitation.
PARENT / CAREGIVER INVOLVEMENT
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 at home to supplement the school-based therapy sessions. Families who
are consistent in this practice have seen significant progress in their children.
CLASS SIZE and EDUCATOR-CHILD RATIO
Each class can accommodate a maximum of seven (7) children who are led and facilitated by two (2) Wee Care educators.
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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