Caregiver Workshop

We recognise the challenges of learning to care for children with developmental or behavioural difficulties at home. DCD offers tailored education and training to enhance parenting practices and provide strategies for behaviour management. This includes developing and practicing positive discipline techniques, understanding child development milestones and age-appropriate behaviours, promoting positive play and interaction between caregivers and their child, and locating and accessing community services and supports.

These workshops will help caregivers increase their awareness and confidence to help their children reach their maximum potential. Equipping the caregiver, who is the most important member of the child's care team, will have maximum impact on their child's outcome.

Workshops Available

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The Autism Primary School Readiness Workshop aims to provide parents with information and skills to understand common difficulties that children with autism experience in primary school environments. Caregivers will learn how to identify their child’s strengths and areas of needs, learn and apply strategies to support them in improving and maintaining those skills, as well as how to better communicate with schools and advocate for their child.

The workshop is suitable for caregivers of children with autism who are going to enter a mainstream primary school.

This caregiver workshop is a 3-hour online parent only session that equips parents to expand their child's social engagement and early communication skills.

This workshop is only applicable for caregivers of children who are referred to the Early Communicators Program.

The Early Words Caregiver Training Workshop is a 3-hour online parent only session targeting caregivers of children who are developing their preverbal and early language skills.

It focuses on:

Providing caregivers with information about preverbal, early language and play development milestones.
Guiding parents to identifying their child's preverbal and early language skill level.

Supporting caregivers to learn strategies to build their child's early language skills.

This caregiver workshop is a 3-hour online parent only session that introduces Dialogic Reading to parents/caregivers to develop pre-reading and literacy skills in children.

This workshop is only applicable for caregivers of Kindergarten 1 and 2 children who are selected to attend the Every Child Reads Group.

The Handwriting workshop is a 3-hour online parent only session conducted by Occupational Therapists in English.

Handwriting workshop aims to help caregivers:

Understand the importance of related skills for handwriting.
Understand and implement the different approaches to teach handwriting skills.
Develop a home programme to improve your child’s handwriting.

You may contact your child’s DCD doctor or Occupational Therapist if you wish to attend this workshop.

Literacy workshop is a 3-hour in person or online workshop for parents/caregivers of K1 and K2 children only. This workshop is conducted by educational therapists in English.

The Literacy Workshop for parents aims to:

Help parents understand the foundation of early literacy skills.
Equip parents with the strategies to build children’s basic literacy skills at home.
Get parents to implement the strategies mentioned in the workshop at home to enhance their child’s interest in reading and/or writing.

Next Step Workshop aims to:

Explain how Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children (EIPIC) can help support your child’s learning and development
Address your concerns regarding EIPIC and your child’s learning journey
Share ways you can better support child’s learning and development
Allow opportunities for like-minded parents who are open to receiving the above information and support in a closed-group setting.

The Play Workshop is a 3-hour online parent only session conducted by occupational therapists in English.

Play Workshop aims to help caregivers:

Learn about the development of pretend play skills across different stages
Estimate your child’s current level of pretend play skills
Choose appropriate pretend play toys for your child
Learn strategies to facilitate and develop your child’s pretend play skills (e.g., play ideas, play sequences, use of a doll/character in play, use an object for something else)

You may contact your child’s DCD doctor or Occupational Therapist if you wish to attend this workshop.

Signposts for Building Better Behaviour is an evidence-based programme developed by the Parenting Research Centre, Australia to help families manage and prevent challenging behaviours in children aged 3 to 15 years old. KKH DCD has adapted the programme to the local context. The programme is available in English, Mandarin, and Malay.

The Social Skills Group Parent Workshop is a 3-hour online parent workshop that occurs 1-2 weeks prior to the start of the Social Skills Group.

It focuses on:

Providing information about social skills and what is taught during the group
Identifying child’s strengths and weaknesses with regard to social skills
Learning ways to increase your child’s self/social awareness, self-regulation and problem solving skills

This workshop is only applicable for caregivers of Kindergarten 2 children who are selected to attend the Social Skills Group.

The Talkers Caregiver Training Workshop is a 3-hour online parent only session targeting caregivers of children who are developing their vocabulary and sentence structures.

It focuses on:

Providing caregivers with information about language development milestones.
Guiding parents to identifying their child's language skill level.
Supporting caregivers in learning strategies to build their child's language skills.