The Development Support Specialist programme aims to help teachers better integrate children who require medium levels of support into classrooms. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE - Children with developmental needs will receive more support in the classroom, with a new programme by NTUC First Campus that started in January 2023 as a three-year pilot.
Under the programme, professionals known as development support specialists trained in early intervention work closely with teachers to identify goals for children, such as building eye-hand coordination, motor skills in feeding and structured tasks, as well as communication. “Over the next two years, we will be adding 1,400 more places to support children with developmental needs. We will serve 80 per cent of children with developmental needs requiring medium to high levels of early intervention support by 2027, up from 60 per cent today,” she said.in more pre-schools from 2026, she said. This programme, which also targets children requiring medium levels of early intervention support, is currently in place at two My First Skool centres.
Rather, DSS wil cater to three types of children: those who are in EIPIC, those who are on the wait list to attend EIPIC, and children who have not been formally assessed but are identified by teachers to require medium support. Ms Xie Meng’s 3.5-year-old daughter Evelyn, who has some delay in her motor skills due to muscle weakness, is on the DSS programme at My First Skool at Rivervale Crescent. She also started attending EIPIC three times a week in January.
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