Hi, anyone has preloved Far Eastern kindergarten for boys to let go? Can PM me. Many thanks.

Thanks a lot slmkhoo for the kind advice.i spoke to another friend who shares Ur tots n I will put in more effort on my end to work closely with his eipic tr to reinforce the strategies taught.

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kay_liz:

Why I am doing speech therapy now is because she is also having the therapy at CDU while waiting for enrolment to EIPIC. But the frequency is too short, like once a month! I know it is not addressing the overall condition of my child, but I was hoping to do something while waiting.... I have submitted my application to the government EIPIC centre but waiting to see the final monthly costs. If too high, i am not able to enrol her, then I have no other options, do I?

Hi kay_liz, great that you are doing all you can and looking for alternatives to support your child's learning.

Your solution of going to DAS because it offers therapy is not a bad decision. It is just worthwhile noting that most therapists at DAS focus mostly on children above 7 years of age and primarily provide therapy for Phonemic awareness and development (learning to read/ write). There are other therapists who primarily provide therapy for younger children with GDD/ASD/dyslexia, etc. These therapists would be more aligned and attuned to your child's learning needs in my opinion.

As you have stated, there are not many private centers that cater to children with developmental difficulties. Their waitlist is long, they cost a bomb and they only have limited locations. I understand that your child has GDD. Is he very far behind? Depending on how your child is functioning in his current childcare, it may not be necessary for him to go to an EIPIC center or integrated childcare/ private childcare.

Bringing these two aforementioned points together, some parents have opted to stay at their current childcare and to supplement it with some home based therapy that is more focused on helping the child reach their developmental milestones in a more systematic and targeted manner. This includes home based early intervention services/ OT/ physio/ speech therapy services.

An example would be to have a speech therapist come in about once a week (market rate is ~ $180-$250 for home based services/ Speech bubbles charges $160/hr), and an early intervention teacher (market rate is ~$80 - 100). This way, your child would not have to keep changing schools and teachers, allowing him to have more consistency in his routines and caregivers. But at the same time, he would get 2X targeted practice with a 1 to 1 therapist at home (where learning is better generalised) at about ~240 a week on top of his childcare. The speech therapist can also get in touch with his school teachers or make school visits to teach them about strategies and to implement the goals while your child is at his school to promote continuity of therapy.

I hope this opens up another avenue for you to consider. No doubt it is still very pricy but it would settle logistical headaches and you would be getting a private service with 1-1 therapy/ teaching.

Pls Pm me if you need contacts and if you like to chat more, being in this industry, I can help with helping you get some contacts if needed:)

Cheers.

Hi, I'm new to this forum. I happen to come across the response which mentioned about 1:1 early intervention centre and 1:1 therapist. I'm just wondering what's the difference between the 2 as well as kids attending eipic in a group setting. My son is currently attending both childcare and eipic. However for eipic he is in a class of 2:10 as he is considered to be the higher functioning but my personal concern is that he does have some learning difficulty w motor planning, inattention, compliance and can't focus on a task and anything academic that I try very hard to get him to cooperate. When he did the Mullen test at CDU, he was considered to be weak in fine motor skills and visual perception.

As logistically it does take quite a fair bit of effort sending him to eipic, 4x a week for 2h and being in a bigger group of 2:10, and he is also attending child care, I am not sure if I'm making the right choice to continue eipic or seek for specific therapy
or 1:1 teacher that can reinforce and focus on areas he is weaker.

Many thanks in advance for the feedback.