Therapeutic. Team-based.
Family-Centered.
Multi-Disciplinary Care and Services @ Ovspring
At Ovspring, we are equipped to provide multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary care to children, adolescents and their families. A whollistic approach is taken towards patient management and family-centredness a priority.
While multidisciplinary assessments in behaviourial, learning, speech-language therapy, occupational therapy and psychological disciplines are available, the Ovspring team often work together in inter-disciplinary teams for joint assessments - particularly for complex cases where needs are often inter-related. Treatment planning is managed on a team approach, and may encompass different stakeholders across home and school.
Multi-Disciplinary Care and Services @ Ovspring
At Ovspring Developmental Clinic, certified psychologists are available to conduct assessments for diagnosis of neurodevelopmental conditions and make recommendations for intervention, educational placement and transition to primary school. These psychological assessments can be of assistance for children with behaviour, social-emotional, learning or developmental challenges and we provide assessments for a range of concerns including and not limited to:
Behavioural problems at home and/or at preschool
Tantrums
School refusal
Anxiety
School refusal
Anger or mood issues
Self-injurious behaviours
Social skills difficulties
Behavioural problems at home and/or at preschool
Tantrums
Anger or mood issues
Anxiety
School refusal
Anger or mood issues
Self-injurious behaviours
Social skills difficulties
Examples of assessments we conduct:
- IQ testing/cognitive assessment:
Cognitive assessments are designed to measure a child’s general thinking, reasoning abilities, intellectual functioning and determine learning capabilities. Intelligence testing assesses various domains of a child’s cognitive capacity such as working memory, visual-spatial, fluid reasoning, processing speed and verbal intelligence and comprehension. Through understanding a child’s cognitive strengths and weaknesses, parents are then better able to make informed decisions about the appropriate school, learning or vocational programme that best suits their child.
- School readiness assessment
School readiness assessments are typically conducted for a child of around 5-6 years of age and is useful in guiding parents on school placement decisions. In addition to ascertaining cognitive ability, the assessment also evaluates a child’s everyday living skills for independence and classroom learning. As some children with learning or behavioural needs would benefit from a more supported schooling environment or a customised curriculum provided by government-funded special education (SPED) schools, the results of this assessment would be helpful in assisting parents on the decision of their child’s schooling.
Assessment and intervention
Occupational therapy seeks to support children with a wide range of presenting issues , such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), sensory processing and visual or hearing impairments, and equip them with skills for everyday life. It can also be beneficial for babies, toddlers and children who do not have a diagnosed condition but experiences challenges that interfere with daily routines.
Starting with an assessment to measure the strengths and weaknesses of your child, our highly-qualified Occupational Therapists evaluates the following areas of assessment:
Visual, motor integration and visual perception skills
Fine and gross motor skills
Sensory processing
Motor planning and motor coordination
Handwriting skills
Visual, motor integration and visual perception skills
Fine and gross motor skills
Sensory processing
Motor planning and motor coordination
Handwriting skills
Occupational therapy aims to develop and enhance your child’s capacity to perform the tasks and roles essential to daily living, leisure/play, education and social participation. During sessions, various therapy approaches including DIR Floortime, sensory-based approaches and Zones of Regulation are implemented in our fully-equipped Sensory Integration gyms. Occupational therapy will focus on the following domains:
Self-regulation
Attention
Focus and participation
Motor planning
Gross and fine motor skills
Visual perception
Handwriting and visual-motor skills
Self-regulation
Attention
Focus and participation
Motor Planning
Gross and fine motor skills
Visual perception
Handwriting and visual-motor skills
Assessment and intervention
Speech therapy is an intervention service that focuses on developing effective communication skills by addressing challenges in speech and language. Provided by a trained speech therapist, our services include an individualised assessment and therapy designed to support your child’s unique needs while improving speech clarity, language comprehension and expressive abilities.
During the assessment, our speech therapist will ascertain your child’s speech, language, voice and/or fluency skills in a fun and engaging way to see the best and most natural communication and speech skills of your child.
Following a customised individualised therapy plan that is tailored to your child’s needs and goals, speech therapy focuses on the following domains:
Classroom language
Language processing
Social communication
Early language development
Speech
(articulation and phonology)
Classroom language
Language processing
Social communication
Early language development
