Children
Birth to Below 7 Years Old
Early Intervention Continuum (EIC)
AWWA Early Intervention Progamme for Infants and Children (EIPIC) provides early intervention continuum (EIC) services to children under seven (7) years of age with low to high level of developmental needs. We offer timely, integrated services in a nurturing environment, ensuring children receive targeted interventions at key developmental stages. Collaborating with medical and educational systems, EIC empowers families and helps unlock each child’s full potential for lifelong success.
Our approaches include:
- Play-based learning: EIC offers tailored activities that cater to each child’s unique developmental needs, promoting cognitive, social-emotional, and physical growth through play-based engaging and developmentally appropriate activities.
- Collaborative approach: Inter-professional collaborative practices are embedded within daily routines, ensuring that children acquire and generalize essential skills through meaningful and real-life interactions. This seamless integration allows children to learn and grow naturally in their everyday environments.
- Family-centered practices: The EIC team actively involves families in the decision-making process, goal setting, and intervention planning, ensuring that interventions are aligned with the family’s values, priorities and needs. Families play a critical role in shaping their child’s development, which creates a sense of ownership and empowerment.
- Holistic support: By adopting a comprehensive approach, EIC promotes consistent, long-term developmental outcomes. This ensures children not only meet their developmental milestones but also become active participants in their communities.
For information on EIPIC application process, please visit SG Enable website or reach them at CD.services@sgenable.sg
Our Programmes
EIPIC Under 2
The EI Under-2 programme supports children from birth to twenty-four (24) months with targeted interventions in their natural environment. With active involvement from caregivers, the programme provides hands-on training to integrate intervention strategies into daily home routines. This collaborative approach helps children progress in familiar settings. Upon turning two years, children transit to EIPIC @ Centre programme, where caregivers continue to receive support to maintain progress at home and within the community.
- Targeted intervention in natural environment
- Intervention strategies to integrate into daily home routines
- Caregiver participation through education and hands-on training
EIPIC @ Centre
The EIPIC @ Centre programme provides children below seven (7) years of age, with intervention services in a structured classroom environment or home-based intervention for children with complex medical needs. The programme is tailored to support a wide range of developmental needs, including speech and language delays, motor skill challenges, sensory processing issues, and social-emotional difficulties.
- Each child’s intervention programme is customised based on their specific developmental profile and needs, with clearly defined goals and regular reviews
- Children and caregivers benefit from the coordinated efforts of the Early Intervention team
- Sessions are conducted in small or big group settings that promote routines, social interaction and learning through play
- Parents and caregivers are actively engaged in the intervention process, including participation in reviews, workshops, and home strategies to reinforce learning
- As children prepare to transit to preschools, Special Education or Primary School, the programme supports their smooth transition through coordination with receiving institutions
Development Support Plus (DS-Plus)
The Development Support Plus (DS Plus) programme caters to children under the age of six years, who attend preschool and are assessed to be suitable for this programme during initial screening or have made significant progress in EIPIC @ Centre programme to transfer to the DS Plus programme. This programme offers intervention in the child’s mainstream preschool environment, where the focus shifts to integration and inclusion. The DS Plus team collaborates with preschool educators, co-facilitating activities and providing tailored strategies to help children adapt and thrive in larger group settings.
- Intervention in mainstream preschool setting
- Adaptation of strategies to support children in a larger group setting
- Collaboration with preschool educators for co-facilitated activities
- Focus on integration in large group learning environment
Development Support-Learning Support (DS-LS Programme)
The Development Support-Learning Support (DS-LS) Programme supports K1 and K2 children who require low level of Early Intervention (EI) support in the mainstream preschool settings.
The DS-LS Programme is designed to offer targeted, short-term developmental and learning support in the area such as speech and language, social skills, motor skills, behavior and literacy, to help children improve their skills and development, enabling them to engage meaningfully and integrate into daily classroom activities and routines.
It also aims to support the child by collaborating with their immediate environment, including parents, teachers, and peers, to help the child apply and generalise skills in their natural learning setting.
Till date, AWWA DS-LS Team have supported over 150 preschools in the North and Northeast regions of Singapore.
Eligibility
The DS-LS Programme is for children who are:
- Enrolled in preschools (K1 and K2 levels) at the point of intervention;
- Singapore Citizens or Permanent Residents; and
- Not concurrently enrolled in any other ECDA-funded EI programmes (i.e. EIPIC, DS-Plus programmes)
How to Apply
Service Location (For EIPIC)
EIC@Fernvale Woods
- 455 Sengkang West Avenue, #02-03 Singapore 790455
- +65 6551 1690
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Monday - Friday,
8.00am – 6.00pm
EIC@Hougang
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660 Hougang Ave 8, #01-489
Singapore 530660 -
661 Hougang Ave 4, #01-375
Singapore 530661 -
665 Hougang Ave 4, #01-345
Singapore 530665 - +65 6511 7020
- +65 6511 7025
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Monday - Friday,
8.00am – 6.00pm