Resource and knowledge

Recent cases featured in the media1 have highlighted some of the challenges that people with special needs and their caregivers encounter when complying with COVID-19 tests and protocols. Over the past one year, we have helped our clients and their caregivers manoeuvre these protocols, and here are some pre-emptive measures which we realised could help

Training your child to use the toilet is an exciting milestone for both child and parent alike. In this first of the two-part series, SPD’s occupational therapist Jahzeel Ann Adan Eleazar gives an overview of toilet training and some common barriers affecting it.

SPD’s occupational therapist, Jahzeel Ann Adan Eleaza shares some tips to help make toilet training easier for your child.

Organisational skills are a set of techniques used by individuals to facilitate the efficiency of learning, problem solving, and task completion.

Tips to Engage Your Child Meaningfully at Home

SPD’s physiotherapist Cliodhna Kavanagh addresses the common questions that parents have regarding the W-sitting position

SPD’s speech therapist Tan Jia Hui shares the benefits of reading to children and some reading tips that apply to both children with and without special needs.

Conversations are a part of social life at home, in school and at work. However, conversation skills may not develop naturally for everybody, such as for children with social communication difficulties.

Following the temporary suspension of our centre-based services during the Circuit Breaker, SPD’s Continuing Therapy Programme (CTP) began piloting telepractice with clients and their caregivers.

Though technology can be an enabler when used appropriately and in moderation, parents need to be mindful that excessive screen time can adversely affect the child’s sleep, behaviour and even parent-child interactions and relationship.