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Child Development

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The Department of Child Development provides specialist diagnostic and intervention services for children with developmental, learning and behavioural difficulties. We serve children with a range of developmental issues such as: 

 

  • Poor social and play skills
  • Emotional and behavioural difficulties
  • Motor skill and coordination challenges
  • Speech clarity challenges
  • Language delays 
  • Developmental delays associated with medical conditions
  • Learning delays and disorders
 
These children may have developmental conditions such as:

Children who are flagged with developmental concerns will meet our paediatricians at the first consultation in KKH for a comprehensive evaluation. This may include further medical investigations such as hearing tests, blood tests, etc. Children suspected or diagnosed with the above difficulties may be offered interim therapy services at our satellite clinics

Children requiring longer-term intervention services are referred to appropriate community services to help them develop and integrate into the community.  

 

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Announcements KKH-MCHRI joins landmark study to establish first global system to track health before pregnancy KK Women's and Children's Hospital Maternal and Child Health Research Institute (KKH-MCHRI) is part of a pioneering study that is paving the way towards the first global system for monitoring the health of people planning to start a family.
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Announcements Maternal Mental Wellbeing Shapes Children’s Early Cognitive Development, Gusto Study Finds A Singapore study tracking 328 mother-child pairs has found two distinct pathways linking maternal mental health to child outcomes at age four. The research from A*STAR Institute for Human Development and Potential (A*STAR IHDP), in collaboration with the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS Medicine), and KK Women's and Children's Hospital (KKH), draws on data from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) birth cohort.
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