Integrated Services for Child Development

Integrated Services for Child Development (ISCD) runs an aggregate of intervention programmes and services to help children with learning challenges and impairments so that they can cope with formal education.  In this way, children will not be left behind in their education and slip into delinquency. They will enjoy better mental well-being in their growing years. We offer the following programmes and services:

Literacy and Behaviour Intervention Programme 

Our Literacy and Behaviour Intervention Programme provides children with skills and strategies to overcome their learning challenges.  Our teachers help them to bridge gaps in their literacy skills so that they can catch up, and be able to read and write at the same level as their peers.  Children between 5 to 12 years old can enrol into this programme.

Grammar Support Programme (GSP)

GSP is a structured intervention designed for students who have difficulties in foundational grammar, comprehension, and language use. It uses a visual coding system to simplify grammatical concepts that will help develop the child’s language and comprehension. Primary 3 to 4 students can enrol into this programme.

Basic Literacy Programme (BLP)

BLP helps young children aged 5 to 7 with learning challenges. Through fun activities like storytelling and crafts, your child will develop key literacy skills, including letter recognition and formation, letter-sound correspondence, vocabulary building, and high-frequency word recognition.

STAR

STAR is a behavioural modification programme that helps children (5 to 12 years old) who have social and emotional difficulties, and are unable to manage their own behaviours.  They tend to display inattentive, disruptive and impulsive behaviours.  Our intervention specialists will help these children learn skills and strategies to manage their own behaviour. Parents will also be equipped with appropriate parenting skills to reinforce the children’s learnings from the programme, so that they can manage their own children at home.

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Abigail's Story

Literacy and Behaviour intervention Programme Beneficiary

Abigail first joined Epworth through our Basic Literacy Programme, where she struggled with reading, writing, and participating in group activities. She was unable to recognise or form letters, and found it difficult to cope in a classroom setting.

She was later referred to Epworth’s Literacy and Behaviour Intervention Programme (LBIP), where she received more targeted support for her learning and behavioural needs.

Over time, Abigail became more ready to learn, more engaged in class, and more confident interacting with others.

Today, Abigail participates actively in lessons, cooperates well with her classmates, and has made significant improvements in her literacy skills.