Our Services
Educational Therapy
Educational Therapy for English Literacy
Areas of difficulty:
- Weak vocabulary and oral expression
- Struggles to remember letters and their sounds
- Has difficulty learning to blend, or reading appears tedious
- Consistently confuses letters, omits or adds letters when spelling
- Struggles with tracking and copying words
- Struggles with reading comprehension and writing
Some reasons for difficulties:
- Weak symbol and/or concept imagery
- Poor knowledge of sound-symbol relationship
- Deficit in development of phonological/phonemic awareness
- Poor visual perception skills
- Poor visual motor coordination
How we can help:
- Assess the underlying difficulties and needs of your child
- Address gaps between current ability and academic demands
- Teach relevant skills and strategies for coping with reading, spelling and writing
- Provide structured, sequential and cumulative instruction and develop learning confidence
- Cultivate meaningful interest in the subject
Educational Therapy for Numeracy & Mathematics
Areas of difficulty:
- Poor number sense and pattern recognition
- Challenges in perceiving numbers and estimating
- Unable to think flexibly about numbers
- Unable to generalise learning across concepts
- Difficulty mathematical concepts to real world contexts
- Unfamiliarity with assessment criteria
- Extracting key information from and processing word problems
Some reasons for difficulties:
- Weak reasoning skills
- Unable to visualise numerical representations
- Lack problem-solving strategies for word problems
- Possess an inhibitive mindset that they are not a “Math person”
- Language related difficulties, such as comprehension and understanding of subject specific vocabulary
- Poor examination techniques and time management skills
How we can help:
- Assess specific underlying difficulties and needs
- Strengthen foundational numeracy skills and key concepts
- Address gaps between current ability and academic demands
- Help learners see Maths in a realistic and concrete way
Structured approach to problem solving strategies and examination skills
Educational Therapy for Chinese Literacy
Areas of difficulty:
- Finds Chinese learning very difficult
- Limited vocabulary
- Unable to recall how to read and write Chinese characters
- Unable to retain characters learnt
- Struggles with reading comprehension and writing
Some reasons for difficulties:
- Limited exposure to the Chinese language
- Lack of structure in language learning, i.e. rote memorisation
- Poor orthographic and phonological processing skills
- Unfamiliar with skills and strategies required for literacy
How we can help:
- Assess the underlying difficulties and needs of your child
- Address the gaps between current ability and academic demands
- Teach language relevant skills and strategies to cope with oracy, character recognition, reading, spelling and writing
- Provide structured, sequential and cumulative instruction and develop learning confidence
Programmes
Reading Unlocked – A Modular Reading Programme
This reading programme equips children with the necessary skills and knowledge to become effective and confident readers.
Target Age Group: 5 to 8 years old
Duration: 8 weeks, 1.5 hours per session
Objectives:
Features:
- Literacy concepts taught in an explicit, systematic and cumulative manner
- Take-home materials to reinforce learning and application of concepts
Executive Function Skills Coaching
Areas of difficulty:
- Poor time management
- Unable to prioritise and get started on tasks
- Struggles with sustaining attention to complete tasks
- Has difficulty understanding, organising, collating and interpreting information
Some reasons for difficulties:
- Attention deficits
- Lack of structure
- Co-existing learning difficulties
How we can help:
- Study skills instruction
- Parent-child coaching
Speech and Language Therapy
Areas of difficulties:
- Speech difficulties, such as stuttering and unclear pronunciation
- Receptive language difficulties, such as poor listening comprehension and difficulties following classroom instructions
- Expressive language difficulties, such as use of vague or incorrect words when recounting stories
- Poor social skills, such as difficulties maintaining conversation and repairing communication breakdowns
Some reasons for difficulties:
- Lack of understanding of non-verbal cues
- Challenges in language processing
- Poor auditory processing skills
- Poor executive functioning
How we can help:
- Assess the child for areas of strengths and difficulties in communication
- Targeted intervention in an engaging and fun environment
- Support child’s language development by working on fundamental skills such as vocabulary and inferencing
- Improve child’s speech clarity by working on skills such as auditory discrimination and motor coordination
- Coach child on relevant social skills
Our Speech and Language Therapist is registered with the Allied Health Professionals Council (AHPC)
Training and Consultancy
We cater workshops and training programmes to parents, caregivers and teachers working with children or students with learning difficulties. Such workshops and training are designed and offered on an on-demand basis.
If you wish to learn more about
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- specific learning difficulties
- helping a child learn to read
- strategies for coping with reading and spelling
- strategies for writing
- developing number sense in early numeracy
- strategies for understanding and solving word problems
- differentiated instruction
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Connect with us for a discussion.