Programs

Here are some of our specialised programs to enable your child or yourself to work on certain areas more intensively and resolve particular areas of speech, language and social skills difficulties.

Hundreds of our clients have benefited immensely from one or more of these customised programs:-

1. Words and Beyond (For 2 to 3 years old)

2. Clear Speech Sounds

3. Language for Maths

4. Language for Science

5. Auditory Processing and Attention

6. Reading and Spelling

7. Reading Comprehension Whatever the Question

8. Expressive Writing

9. Behave, Belong and Be Liked - Social Skills for School

10. Ready to write (Pre School Handwriting)

11. Adult Speech Fluency Program (Stuttering / Stammering)

12. Adult Speech Program (Articulation, Lisp, Rhotacism, Accent Improvement etc)

13. Adult Home Study Speech Fluency Program (Stuttering)

14. Specialised Speech and Language Early Intervention Program or Pre-school Readiness Program

1. Words and Beyond (For 2 to 3 years old)

Why this program, Who is it for:

This program will help your 2 to 3 year old child if he or she:

1. is just crying or pulling your hand in order to get what he or she wants, instead of using speech.
2. knows letters and numbers, but is not able to answer questions about what he wants or does not want.
3. does not want to talk, speaks only when prompted or when repeating after adults.
4. is talking in single words, but has difficulty learning how to speak in sentences.

5. is starting to use simple sentences but you have difficulty understanding his sentences because his speech is not clear.

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2. Clear Speech Sounds

Why this program, Who is it for:

This program will help your child if he or she:

1. whose speech sounds are not clear because they mumble or because of specific sounds, they have difficulty saying eg 'L' sound, 'S' sound, 'R' sound etc.

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3. Language for Maths

Why this program, Who is it for:
This program will help your child (primary and pre-school):

1. who are able to add, subtract numbers etc but have difficulty with Maths word problems.
2. who has difficulty with the sequence of steps needed for Maths word problems.
3. who has difficulty in simultaneously processing language and numbers.
4. also for Parents who worry about losing their temper (or sanity) coaching their Primary School children in Maths...

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4. Language for Science

(Reading Comprehension for Non-Fiction)

Why this Program, Who is it for:
This program will help your child

1. who has difficulty with language comprehension of Science or reading comprehension for non-fiction.
2. who has difficulty with the different types of questions in Science papers including inference questions, multiple-choice questions with different combinations, questions with negatives: which is not....
3. lower primary students who will benefit from early start to prepare for the language and thinking required for Science.

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5. Auditory Processing and Attention

Why this program, Who is it for:
This program will your child who have auditory processing difficulties:

1. the “Huh?" and "What?” children who have difficulty following instruction.
2. children who ‘understand’ or ‘can do’ the work but do not perform in school because of short attention span or difficulty performing consistently.

Studies have shown that as much as 86% of classroom learning occurs through listening. A child who listens and processes effectively receives more information in the classroom, and can achieve more with the information learnt. A child who is not effective in learning learns less, and is less confident and is more likely to get left out.

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6. Reading and Spelling

Why this program, Who is it for:

This program will help your child:

1. who has dyslexia or reading or spelling difficulties.
2. who need to improve their foundation in basic reading decoding skill (i.e. recognizing words and reading them).
3. who has creative ideas but are impaired in expressing themselves in writing because of spelling difficulties.
4. who grasp the Mathematical concepts, understand the grammar rules, or have the vocabulary but do not perform well in school because they cannot read the Maths word problems or the closed passages.

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7. Reading Comprehension Whatever the Question

Why this program, Who is it for:

This program will help children:

1. who are able to read aloud clearly and fluently, but have difficulty in answering questions about what they have read.
2. who are able to read, but cannot paraphrase the information and answer questions using their own words (i.e. children who have to learn not to just copy or ‘lift’ entire sentences).
3. who have learnt to answer various Wh - questions such as who, why, how etc if they are direct questions but have difficulty answering questions requiring inferences.

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8. Expressive Writing

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9. Behave, Belong and Be Liked - Social Skills for School

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10. Ready to write (Pre School Handwriting)

Why this program, Who is it for:

This program will help your child:

1. who does not like, or avoids writing work (e.g. walks away as soon as there is writing involved...)
2. has difficulty remembering the names or shapes of letters
3. gets letters such as 'b' and 'd' mixed up, writes in mirror images or gets let mixed up when writing words
4. has built up some foundation in listening and speaking, and now needs to be writing in pre-school

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11. Adult Speech Fluency Program (Stuttering / Stammering)

Why this program, Who is it for:

This program will help you if you stutter and:

1. You feel upset, embarrassed or frustrated that you can't communicate with people in a friendly manner.
2. You have speech blocks and you feel like you can't speak up and you don't have a choice.
3. You are feeling very self-conscious and it makes other people very awkward when you speak.
4. You are feel there are no speech practices you could do, or any solutions to fall back on you just feel lost.

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12. Adult Speech Program (Articulation, Lisp, Rhotacism, Accent Improvement etc)

Why this program, Who is it for:

Our adult speech therapy programs are customised to your specific difficulties and needs and can help you if:

1. You cannot say specific sounds such as ‘s’, ‘r’, ‘th’ etc clearly.
2. Your sounds are not clear, and you sound as if you have braces on even though you don’t.
3. You think you have a lisp and you can't say or pronounce 's' clearly in your speech.
4. You think you have rhotacism and you can't say or pronounce 'r' clearly in your speech.
5. You feel frustrated and embarrassed to talk since it is hard to pronounce the 's' in words.
6. You feel your lisp is more obvious when you get excited and did not know how to correct your lisp at all so you tend to just keep quiet up, or rush through talking.
7. You find yourself mumbling, or you are frequently told you are mumbling.
8. You find that others don’t understand words that you say, mis-understand you, or frequently ask for repetitions especially when you are on the phone.
9. You frequently trip over long words and get stressed about avoiding these words or saying them fluently.
10. You want to stop speaking ‘Singlish’, or you just want to speak more fluently with a better accent in order to be more confident.
11. You feel that how you speak is getting in the way of your interaction with others.

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14. Specialised Speech and Language Early Intervention Program or Pre-school Readiness Program

Why this program, Who is it for:

This programme is for you if:

1. your child’s childcare or early intervention centres (e.g. EPIC centre) does not provide sufficient speech therapy or language therapy for your child’s needs.
2. your child needs specific support to be ready for mainstream preschool.
3. you are looking for specific speech and language program for your child rather than paying for long hours of childcare or expensive intervention programs that are not targeted at your child’s needs.

All our program activities emphasize speech, language and social skills. Our preschool activities (art and craft, music and song, play time, story time etc) are all specifically designed for learning speech, language and social skills such as asking for what you need, speaking in sentences, taking turns with friends etc.

Your child will keep up better in school:

1. Your child will ‘learn how to learn’ - look, listen, pay attention and imitate better so that they get more out of school.
2. Your child will improve his or her speech and language skills: speak clearly, follow instructions, understand questions, speak in sentences. Also, to answer questions, prepare for reading and writing, and social skills etc.

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