Home Buddy
New families who join Wee Care will pay a Registration fee of $125/- instead of the current $85/- with effect from 1st Jan 09. However, Insurance and Deposit rates will remain the same. .

Wee Care's Home Therapy Programme revolves around an Individual Educational Plan (IEP) for children with Autism, carried out in the home instead of at school. The main goal of the Home Therapy Programme is to significantly increase the number of hours of therapy for the child without incurring a corresponding and significant increase in costs.

The Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Team at Wee Care provides the consultation, curriculum, and on-going supervision of the Home Programme, whilst parents, family-members and Licensed Home Buddies take on the task of carrying out the programme regularly at home.

My Wee Care Experience

Mrs Anne Sebastian, whose son, Mike, 5, has Autism, found the Home Therapy Programme effective for learning. She says:

"My husband and I opted to place Mike in an integrated mainstream class for 5 hours a day, together with about 25 hours of behaviour therapy a week in the home setting. By the age of 4 years 6 months, after only a little more than a year of Home Therapy, he was re-assessed. We were told that on one scale, his developmental age was 5 years 4 months. More importantly, his score on CARS (an autism diagnostic test) had fallen below the autistic cut-off level."

Mike is now attending a mainstream primary school.

 

BENEFITS

Given the ultimate goal of rehabilitation and integration into mainstream schools and adult life, the Home Therapy Programme can make significant contribution in terms of:

  • Intensive Individualised Therapy of up to five (5) hours a day at home
  • Cost Savings when parents, domestic helpers, relatives, family friends and Licensed Home Buddies help to carry out the therapy programme, instead of professional and full-time therapists whose hourly rates are higher, and whose teaching schedules are often fully-booked up
  • Time-Savings and Convenience, as parents no longer need to take the child to a school or centre several times a week

 

PARENT / CAREGIVER INVOLVEMENT

This is crucial as the success of the Home Therapy Programme depends on parent-involvement. Find out what Mrs Anne Sebastian did for her son as a parent.

 

SETTING UP the HOME THERAPY PROGRAMME

Two things must happen concurrently:

  • First, the child must attend a consultation with Wee Care's Senior Therapist. This enables the Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Team to identify the child's specific learning needs and subsequently prepare the appropriate Individual Educational Plan (IEP).

    During the consultation, parents should provide all the relevant and necessary information about their child's diagnosis, including any reports by child psychologists where available.

  • Second, the parent must have on hand at least two (2) persons who can be the child's Home Teachers. One of these Teachers should be a full-time Wee Care Therapist. The second or subsequent home teacher should be a Wee Care Accredited Home Buddy.

The Home Programme can start within three (3) weeks of the consultation. In the meantime, the Early Intervention and Rehabilitation Team will assist parents with guidelines for the setting up of the work area at home.

 

FEES

The following consultation, training and programme fees are applicable to the Home Therapy Programme:

Consultation for admission starts at S$80.00
Deposit S$300.00
Fees for Individual Educational Plan (IEP):
12-week plan
4-week plan
starts at S$150.00 each
starts at S$75.00 each
Supervision, Evaluation and Curriculum Development
Usually once every four weeks, not exceeding two hours per session.		 S$120.00/hour (Centre-based) &
S$150.00/hour (Home-based)

Deposits are refunded according to the terms and conditions of registration.

 

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