Multi-disciplinary Care
Thorough, holistic care for each family and child
Our Annabelle Kids (AKIDS) Team comprises allied health professionals (AHPs) from different disciplines – child psychologists, speech therapists, and occupational therapists, all of whom target key areas of a child’s development. Our AHPs jointly assess, plan, and manage care together with parents and their professional caregivers.
The multi-disciplinary assessment will be followed up with a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary management plan.
Benefits of a Multi-Disciplinary Approach
Accurate, Holistic and Simultaneous assessments by Allied Health Practitioners - no guesswork or parent liaising. Holistic care between medical and allied health professionals should not be a parent’s responsibility
One-Stop Centre at our 5,000 square feet child therapy centre incorporating speech & language clinics, psychotherapy clinics, occupational therapy gyms, early intervention programmes, and art therapy
Integrated Care with our Partner Paediatricians seamless integration with regular case conferences with trusted medical partners
Discipline-Specific Evaluations
Psychology: tests a child’s neurodevelopmental abilities and challenges, including any difficulties secondary to underlying behavioral, emotional, or cognitive functioning
Speech and Language: gain insight into a child’s developmental speech or language issues, including language processing disorders, speech delays, and social language and communication, and pragmatics
Occupational: assesses a child’s functional struggles in their daily lives such as sensory processing issues, gross and fine motor skills, handwriting, attention span, organisation and planning difficulties, and self-care skills in order to gain independence and complete daily tasks and routines
Our Allied Health Professionals
Jiayong Lin
林佳永
Clinical Psychologist
Clinical Psychologist
Sharyn Koh
许琇智
Occupational Therapist
Cherish Lim
林祯晞
Occupational Therapist
Speech & Language
Therapist
Benefits of a Play-based Multi-Disciplinary Apporach
A Play-based Approach
Assessment is fun and engaging, lowering the stress for child and family.
Incorporating what children love the most with evidence-based techniques
to support their development.
Cost-effective
Our Allied Health Practitioners from all 3 specialisations — psychology, speech therapy, & occupational therapy — will consult with you immediately after the intake, thoroughly addressing your concerns.
Improved Care & Health Outcomes
A multi-disciplinary approach provides a holistic assessment across multiple domains so your child’s needs will be met more comprehensively and appropriately.
How will a
Multi-disciplinary Approach
help my child?
Neurodevelopmental disorders in young children often affect multiple areas of functioning. For example, a child with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) who has feeding difficulties may experience a complex combination of sensory and psychosocial issues. They might lack the oral motor skills to clear their mouth or swallow. It could also be sensory hyper-reactivity that makes certain food textures challenging, hence the selectivity in food. They may experience anxiety when it comes to meal times as it involves social interactions which they struggle to comprehend.
Thoughtful assessment and early intervention promote optimal developmental potential. To address these wide-ranging needs, these children require care across several disciplines.
A multi-disciplinary approach provides holistic care across multiple domains so a child’s needs can be met more comprehensively and appropriately, especially if they are more complex.
Did you Know?
Inter-professional care has been found to yield the most effective and optimal results in the management of neurodevelopmental disorders in children which have high co-morbidity. A multi-disciplinary approach is widely regarded as the recommended practice.
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