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School Readiness Programme for Preschoolers
The school readiness group in Singapore is designed to help your children, including preschoolers, to develop essential social skills, such as social interaction, emotional regulation, and basic task management, to bridge the gap in school life with confidence and competence.
While these behaviours can be concerning, enrolling your children in the school readiness programme may help provide the support they need. By addressing these behaviours early, you can give your children an optimum start in their educational journey, ensuring they are socially ready for school.
School Readiness Programme for Children’s Development Challenges
The school readiness group helps identifies and addresses developmental delays early, setting a strong foundation for academic success and personal growth. Our therapists will provide training for the following challenges:
- Following Instructions and Routines: Difficulty in following simple instructions or routines
- Socialisation and Play: Challenges in interacting or playing with other children
- Group Participation: Hesitation or reluctance to participate in group activities
- Self-Care Skills Development: Struggling with basic self-care tasks, like dressing or eating independently
- Engagement in Educational Activities: Showing limited interest in age-appropriate educational activities
- Communication of Needs and Emotions: Difficulty in expressing needs or emotions effectively
How to Develop Your Child Through School Readiness Programme
School readiness programme help children to prepare school by developing essential cognitive, emotional and social skills to support them navigate a mainstream school environement. Here’s how our therapist will help them:
- Tailoring Learning Approaches: Identifying each child’s learning style and adapting strategies to meet their individual needs, making the learning process more accessible and enjoyable.
- Enhancing Communication Skills: Offering exercises and activities that improve both verbal and non-verbal communication, crucial for classroom interaction and understanding instructions.
- Building Emotional Resilience: Teaching coping strategies for managing emotions and stress, which are vital for adapting to the new challenges and dynamics of a school setting.
- Fostering Social Skills: Facilitating group activities through our social skills for children group programme that is designed to encourage positive interactions with peers, sharing, taking turns, and developing empathy.
- Strengthening Cognitive Abilities: Providing engaging activities to boost memory, attention, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Encouraging Independence: Guiding children in self-care tasks and decision-making processes to promote independence and self-confidence.
- Supporting Fine and Gross Motor Skills: Implementing exercises to enhance coordination and physical abilities, supporting classroom activities like writing, cutting, and sports.
- Preparing for Classroom Routines: Simulating school day routines within therapy sessions to help children adjust to the structured environment of a classroom.
- Engaging Parents in the Process: Offering resources and training for parents to continue support and reinforcement of skills at home.
Learning Outcomes
- Attending skills, such as sitting, looking, waiting, listening
- The ability to listen and follow instructions
- Self-regulation and tolerance
- A willingness to learn
- Patience
- The ability to understand and follow group instructions
- Awareness and caring for personal belongings
- The ability to adapt to and following school routines
- Independence in task performance
- Basic money handling skills
- Personal hygiene
- Effective problem-solving skills
- Social interest and awareness
- Communication abilities
- Conversational skills
- The ability to understand and express emotions
- The ability to recognise and imitate social cues
- Learning from peers and developing play skills
- Foundations in reading and writing
- Comprehension skills
- Basic numeracy and mathematical concepts
Experienced and Qualified Therapists in Singapore
Finding the right therapist who aligns with your values, skills and experience is crucial for both your and your child’s success. A therapist is not merely a professional providing a service, but a trusted partner in your parenting journey.
At Cornerstone Therapy, we meticulously select our team based on their character traits, years of relevant experience, commitment to family empowerment, and knowledge in intervention approaches to build Self-Regulation, Organisation and Motivation (ROM).
The ROM Theory is the cornerstone of our therapy because we prioritise ensuring that your kid is regulated, organised and motivated during therapy. This ensures that the child will be actively engaged in the activities specially designed for them. This active engagement is how we achieve meaningful progress in speech, communication, and social skills, whether it’s through school readiness programme, educational therapy, occupational therapy or other therapeutic forms.
By building and developing these skills, children can then apply them to real-world environments more effectively, enabling them to interact with others more successfully, and embrace a broader array of learning opportunities. These are the outcomes that our educational therapists strive to achieve.
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List of School Readiness Group Programme in Singapore
Reading, Comprehension, and Writing go together. The Handwriting & Literacy Group is an intensive and systematic intervention aimed at improving your children’s handwriting skills (placement, spacing, letter size, pressure control, stamina) while using handwriting as a means of written expression. It is structured across 20 sessions and often in conjunction with individual therapy.
If your child is still learning letter formation, establishing a pencil grip, and building a basic receptive language vocabulary, it is advisable for them to undergo individual therapy first.