Early Intervention
Early Intervention is a supportive program that helps children with developmental delays, unique learning and behavioral challenges. It is designed for pre-school-aged children who need further support to develop their language and communication skills, increase their sensory integration, enhance their fine and gross motor skills, build their foundation in academic skills, and improve their social skills. It is designed to assist children in developing the core life skills required to join their mainstream peers in Singapore’s formal education system.
Developmental milestones are core skills infants or toddlers should be achieving month by month gradually. These core skills can be broadly classified into the motor, sensory, language, cognitive, and social skills. When a child has difficulty achieving these milestones or achieves these milestones at a slower pace, it is known as Global Developmental Delay.
Parents should start Early Intervention as early as possible as it is likely to be more effective in the early stages of a child’s life compared to receiving it in his later years.
Little Lions Early Intervention Program
Our program aims to ensure that each child’s strengths and challenges can be addressed and to help them reach their goals in terms of their daily living skills, functional skills and social thinking skills. Our Early Intervention Programs include the following core features and goals:
Addresses each child’s strengths and challenges, targeting daily living, functional, and social thinking skills.
Suitable for Preschool-aged children who cannot access mainstream preschool settings.
Provides specialised instruction in small teacher-student ratios.
Offers a 3 or 5 day intensive program.
Utilizes multi-sensory activities and materials to enhance learning for children with learning difficulties.
Targets multiple senses (touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste) to aid children with developmental delays effectively.
How Can Our Early Intervention Program Help Your Child?
The key difference between Little Lions' Early Intervention Program compared to other intervention programs lies in our teaching methodology. We understand that every child learns differently, and we need to develop customized teaching plans which cater to individual learning needs. Instead of using a one-size-fits-all teaching plan, we embrace a student-centered learning philosophy, ensuring that your child learns in the best way he can.
Through our intensive intervention curriculum, we help your child develop the core skills required to join mainstream schools in Philippine's formal education system.
5 Key Focuses of Our Early Intervention Program
Children with developmental delays struggle to manage sensory inputs. Our therapists create personalized sensory diets, incorporating various sensory inputs like proprioceptive, tactile, visual, auditory, vestibular, gustatory, and oral motor to enhance learning.
Our Early Intervention curriculum offers tailored Literacy and Numeracy teaching methods, alongside multi-sensory techniques and hands-on activities to boost cognitive skills based on each child’s preferences.
Children develop social skills to foster positive relationships with loved ones. Our structured teaching method promotes desired behaviour and positive verbal & non-verbal interactions, enhancing self-confidence and communication effectively.
We offer effective emotional support by acknowledging and helping children manage their emotions. A nurturing, accepting environment is essential for fostering healthy emotional well-being in your child.
At Little Lions, we believe every child is a precious gift from God. Our customized program aim to enhance children intellectually, relationally, emotionally, and physically, rooted in Christian values to nurture strong character. We affirm each child, empowering them to positively impact society as valued individuals.
Signs of Developmental Delay
Although every child develops at his own pace, it is important to be aware of some red flags for potential developmental delays. Minor or temporary delays are no cause for alarm. However, an on-going delay or multiple developmental delays can implicate future challenges in life.
There are many developmental delays young children may experience. They include:
Difficulty in speech and language
Difficulty in problem-solving / logical reasoning
Trouble with learning in school
Difficulty in communicating / socialising with others
Unable to walk, crawl, sit up or roll
Limited motor skills
Unable to get dressed on his own
Poor vision / perception skills
If your child faces these developmental delays, it is critical to enroll your child in an Early Intervention Program as early as possible as a child’s brain is primed for adapting and learning in the first 3 years of his life.