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About Singapore Brain Development Centre
At Singapore Brain Development Centre, we firmly believe that every child/client deserves our best efforts. We offer interventions that are clinically proven and adopt a holistic personalized approach to help our clients to overcome learning challenges and to excel in play, school, work and life
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1.CLINICAL ASSESSMENT
CLINICAL
BRAIN TEST
WE HAVE THE ANSWERS THAT TROUBLED AND
BAFFLED YOU:
1. WHY DOES MY CHILD MAKE SO MANY
CARELESS MISTAKES?
2. WHY CAN’T MY CHILD PAY ATTENTION?
3. WHY IS MY CHILD NOT MOTIVATED AND LAZY
TO LEARN?
4. WHY MUST I KEEP REMINDING MY CHILD TO
DO THINGS/SCHOOLWORK?
5. WHY ARE WORDS A TURN OFF FOR MY CHILD?
6. WHY DOES MY CHILD SHUT DOWN WHEN IT
COMES TO SCHOOLWORK?
7. WHY DO PHONICS PROGRAMS NOT WORK FOR
MY CHILD?
8. WHY IS MY CHILD SO CHILDISH? NO
THINKING SKILLS, NO LIFE SKILLS.
Before we can determine the right brain
training program for you or someone you love, we need information. We get this
information by conducting a professional cognitive skills assessment test. This
test enables us to identify specific brain skills weaknesses, then target those
weaknesses with a series of carefully designed brain training exercises. The
test results also give you what you need to make informed decisions about the
value of brain training for you or your family. Singapore Brain Development
Centre’s Cognitive Skills testing is the most time and cost-efficient way of
getting the results you need.
THE TESTS
ARE THE TOOLS
Singapore Brain Development Centre uses a
variety of nationally acclaimed cognitive abilities, achievement, and reading
mastery tests in addition to proprietary screening tools developed to further
enhance identification of individual skill strength and weakness. At our
training centre, such broad, accurate, and definitive testing pinpoints weak
underlying cognitive skills related to poor performance and serves as the
foundation for individualized, effective training.
The professional testing tools we use
include the Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Abilities (WJ III-COG) and the
Woodcock Johnson Tests of Achievement (WJ III-ACH). The WJ III-COG is the gold
standard of cognitive skills testing, and is used by psychologists and
educators across the country to measure brain skills strengths and weaknesses.
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COGNITIVE SKILLS ASSESSED
AUDITORY
PROCESSING
Many people have auditory processing
weaknesses. With these weaknesses, there is difficulty hearing the difference,
order, and the number of sounds in a word.
VISUAL
PROCESSING
This is the ability to form and
manipulate accurate images in your mind. This skill is essential for math, reading
comprehension, and many forms of problem-solving.
MEMORY
SKILLS
Weakness in this cognitive skill is often
the unseen culprit in a student’s inability to follow instructions.
WORD ATTACK
SKILL
This skill enables a person to segment
and articulate new or unfamiliar words. When coupled with an auditory
processing weakness, a student is sure to struggle while reading new material.
GENERAL
PROCESSING SPEED
The ease and speed with which a student
handles incoming information is the basic boundary of his or her learning
efficiency.
LOGIC AND
REASONING
Planning and problem solving require a
person to recognize the connections between things. Weakness in this skill
obscures those connections and bogs down the learning process.
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2.LISTENING THERAPY
OUR
LISTENING PROGRAM
Our listening program targets the
auditory system to stimulate the brain and energises the body – improving your
child’s fundamental ability to process information and learn. We use The
Tomatis® Method, which is a sound therapy, in our listening therapy program.
This method has been designed to enhance listening and communication skills. It
has also been successful in helping people who have coordination and balance
difficulties.
The Tomatis® Method has been validated by
more than 80 research papers, as well as by clinical and scientific studies. It
is a versatile method that has seen many areas of applications. Integrating the
Tomatis® Method in our listening therapy has helped with:
Attention
Deficits
If you have a short attention span, our
listening program will help you to maintain focus. This therapy helps the brain
to identify irrelevant side events and reject them automatically. The result is
a longer attention span. Children who struggle when learning because they are
easily distracted can also benefit.
Learning
Difficulties
Our therapy helps children who struggle
to absorb new information, which ultimately improves academic skills. Some
children are considered slow learners because they take longer to process
information. Sometimes the problem is the absorption of the information, and
not the processing. Listening therapy will help to determine where the
challenge lies, and how to help a child improve.
Autism
Spectrum Disorder
Children in the autism spectrum
experience delays in cognitive development, as well as communication and social
integration challenges. Our listening program helps these children to develop
communication skills through listening, processing the information, and giving
back the best feedback possible. It can help children with autism spectrum
disorders (ASD) and behaviors sometimes associated with it: Asperger’s
syndrome, sensory processing disorder (SPD), or Down syndrome.
Weak Motor
Skills and Coordination
Listening therapy is helpful to children
and adults with weak motor skills. People who have a weak vestibular sense,
which is responsible for balance and movement, use this therapy to improve
coordination, balance, and motor responses.
Difficulties
in Language and Communication
Listening therapy helps patients to
develop vital auditory feedback loop that is essential in communication and
language acquisition.
Emotional
Regulation Problems
The Tomatis® Method has been successful
in people battling anxiety and depression. It stimulates the emotional system
for better memory retention, emotional control, and learning.
Integrated
Music Therapy
Our Integrated Music Therapy is a highly
effective technique that complements and accelerates most pedagogical and/or therapeutic
support. Our Integrated Music Therapy can be used at any age, be it a toddler
or an adult and it also aids in battling other psychological difficulties and
disorders.
Information
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Centre"
3.SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPY FOR CHILDREN
Speech and language refer to the ability
to communicate, share and express feelings, give and receive information,
understand ideas and develop thoughts.
The two primary skills needed to master
speech and language are Speaking and Listening.
Speech and language lay an important
foundation in the development of a child’s thinking and learning abilities.
Being able to listen with understanding and communicate (speak) with others, helps
build a child’s social and self-confidence, which contributes to their personal
growth and development. This is where speech therapy in Singapore can be
beneficial.
Toddlers with poor speaking or listening
skills often show signs of speech and language impairment. These children will
also often have comprehension issues, struggle with reading and face learning
difficulties.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR SPEECH THERAPY PROGRAM
Conducted
by Senior Language Therapists
Your child is in competent hands with our
senior language therapists. A speech specialist helps children with
communication difficulties and is equipped with the expertise to help children
perform better in school by improving their language capabilities.
Through our speech classes for toddlers,
a speech specialist will identify specific goals and interventions tailored
specifically to your child’s needs. During speech classes, therapists may use
images, novels, or language-based activities to encourage language development.
Active
partnership with parents
We believe in actively working with and
supporting not only the child but also the parents. This is because parents
play a critical role in their child’s speech and language development. We offer
continual advice and home therapy plans to help accelerate your child’s speech
and language development. We strive to always work alongside you to assist your
child in their learning and development.
Information
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Centre"
4.LITERACY TRAINING
WHAT IS
LITERACY AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?
Literacy generally refers to the ability
to read and write in a meaningful manner.
With an endless wealth of information and
knowledge contained in books and other forms of writing, being able to read
allows your child to discover and learn new things. It expands the imagination
and develops the mind. Reading also nurtures creativity and is key in
developing a good self-image – poor readers usually have a lower self-esteem
and self-confidence.
The ability to write allows your child to
explore and communicate what he/she thinks, feels and knows. Being able to
write well enables your child to materialize his/her ideas and thoughts. It
empowers your child to be understood and to gain recognition and respect.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR LITERACY PROGRAM
COMPREHENSIVE
DEVELOPMENTAL MILESTONE ASSESSMENT
We have a wide array of tests/assessments
that we can use to assess your child’s language and literacy skills from a
developmental perspective – this means that we focus not on your child’s
biological age, but the age at which they function linguistically.
We assess your child’s developmental
literacy skills in five core aspects:
ü
Cognitive
ü
Reading
ü
Writing
ü
Numeracy – the
ability to understand and work with numbers
ü
Language
The tests provide you and us a deeper
understanding of your child’s specific strengths and weaknesses and shed light
into any underlying issues your child might be facing.
INDIVIDUALISED
AND TARGETED APPROACH
Based on your child’s test results, we
will develop a personalized program plan that targets your child’s language and
literacy weaknesses. Our developmental milestones approach ensures that the
training program is specifically catered to your child’s learning abilities and
needs. More information about how we do this with our reading program can be
found in our blog article here.
FOCUS ON
UNDERLYING COGNITIVE ABILITIES
Integrating our expertise in cognitive
development and training, our language and literacy program also works on weak
underlying cognitive abilities that might be the root cause of your child’s
language and literacy difficulties. These include:
·
Auditory processing
skills — the ability to discern sound codes, critical for listening or
comprehension
·
Visual processing
skills — the ability to picture, manipulate, organize, comprehend and think
with visual information
·
Attention skills —
the ability to sustain, divide and select information
Information
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Centre"
5.EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAM & CENTRE
SCHOOL
READINESS PROGRAM FOR CHILDREN AGED 3-6
Child development research has established
that the rate of human learning and development is most rapid in the preschool
years. Thus, preschool education is crucial as it lays a strong foundation for
children to become lifelong learners.
Children with learning challenges or
developmental delays need targeted strategies that work toward integrating them
into mainstream schools. An early childhood intervention program can
dramatically impact your child’s developmental trajectory and improve the
outcomes for your child and your family.
Singapore Brain Development Centre (SBDC)
is a child development specialist and one of the best early intervention
centres in Singapore. We appreciate the uniqueness of every child and believe
that the most constructive and powerful way to improve a child’s learning
potential is through targeted and individualized intervention and teaching.
Here at SBDC, we provide customized early
childhood intervention programs for children with different challenges,
including:
• Sensory processing disorder (SPD),
• Attention-deficit hyperactive disorder
(ADHD),
• Language and Developmental delays
• Learning difficulties and learning
disabilities
Information
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Centre"
6.PHYSIO-NEURO THERAPY
Singapore Brain Development Centre is
proud to be the exclusive licensed provider of Learning Technics's Physio-Neuro
Therapy!
HOW DOES IT
WORK?
The brain is like a muscle. When you need
to strengthen a muscle, you must complete exercises that require the muscle to
work harder than it has in the past. As the muscle works harder, strain occurs.
The body’s natural response to this stress is to develop tissue that will
accommodate the strain, making it possible for the muscle to do things that it
previously could not do. Like a muscle, with proper training, the brain can
learn to perform tasks that were previously not possible.
PNT works by simulating underdeveloped
areas of the brain (which is the underlying cause of the learning disability)
through the use of specific, targeted neurological exercises. These exercises
develop new neurological tissue, thus strengthening the brain and making
learning much easier.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR PHYSIO-NEURO THERAPY PROGRAM
Targeted Training
We will first conduct an evaluation to
identify key weaknesses or areas of improvement. This allows us to develop a
therapy plan that targets your child’s specific weaknesses.
Customizable
Exercises
PNT includes over 100 multi-sensory
exercises that engage a number of cognitive skills simultaneously. These
exercises can be drawn upon to treat learning disabilities and custom tailored
to meet your child’s individualized learning requirements. The exercises are
arranged according to different difficulty levels, where each level is customized
for the individual student. Each level also introduces additional elements to
expand your child’s natural learning capacity.
Proven
Approach
Since 1988, it has helped over 15,000
struggling students overcome their learning difficulties. It has quantifiable
results proving itself as a means to permanently help struggling students
achieve academic success. Students show an average scholastic gain of two years
in just six months’ time.
EMPOWER
YOUR CHILD TO ACHIEVE MORE THROUGH PHYSIO-NEURO THERAPY!
Find out how our Physio-Neuro Therapy
Program can impact your child’s learning and cognitive development today! The
first step is to get in touch with us, to schedule an appointment so that we
can get to know you, and help you understand your child better.
Information
Source : Official Website/Facebook Pages of " Singapore Brain Development
Centre"
7.VISION THERAPY
Tuning the eyes, expanding the minds
Vision Therapy is a type of physical
therapy for the eyes and the brain. It is a non-surgical treatment for many
common visual problems, and can treat reading and learning difficulties caused
by weak visual processing.
Vision Therapy goes beyond Orthoptics as
it targets the entire visual system, including the eyes, the brain and the
body. It trains the brain to receive information through the eyes more
effectively, process it quickly and react adaptively.
Our vision therapy works on the following
abilities are more:
·
Automaticity of
letter, number and word naming
·
Auditory memory
·
Auditory Sequencing
& Integration
·
Divided Attention
·
Math
·
Motor Planning and
Sequencing
·
Reading fluency
·
Sequencing
·
Speed and Span of
Recognition
·
Sustained Visual
Attention
·
Visual Memory
·
Visualization
·
Visual-Auditory Integration
·
Visual-Vestibular
Integration
·
Visual Spatial
Memory
·
Visual Cognitive
Why is
Vision Therapy Important?
Poor vision may be the root cause of your
child’s learning difficulties. Vision issues may cause poor handwriting,
clumsiness, loss of place while reading, lack of retention when reading,
difficulty in paying attention and maintaining concentration.
Children with undiagnosed vision problem
are often diagnosed with learning difficulties or even attention deficit
disorder. Vision Therapy offers a special approach to train the child to
develop the visual and sensorimotor skills required for effective classroom
learning.
Information
Source : Official Website/Facebook Pages of " Singapore Brain Development
Centre"
8.BRAIN & FOCUS TRAINING
Enhancing cognitive abilities and
rectifying learning problems
WHAT IS
BRAIN TRAINING?
Brain Training develops the cognitive
skills that the brain uses to think and learn. So the more important question
here is: What are Cognitive skills?
Cognitive Skills are the core skills that
our brain uses to learn, remember, pay attention, reason and problem-solve.
Working together, they enable us to receive, perceive and interpret the
information we use daily at school, at work, and in life.
Each cognitive skill plays a critical
role in how we process new information and influences our ability to learn. In
fact, weak cognitive skills are the root cause of most learning struggles.
HERE IS A
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH COGNITIVE SKILLS, AS WELL AS THE STRUGGLES THAT MAY
BE EXPERIENCED IF THAT SKILL IS WEAK:
ATTENTION –
THE ABILITY TO SUSTAIN, DIVIDE AND SELECT INFORMATION.
Common Problems when this skill is weak:
Difficulty following instructions, Forgetfulness, Doing poorly on tests
MEMORY –
THE ABILITY TO RETAIN, RECALL AND APPLY LEARNED KNOWLEDGE
Common Problems when this skill is weak:
Difficulty following instructions, Forgetfulness, Doing poorly on tests
PROCESSING
SPEED – THE SPEED OF PROCESSING ANY GIVEN INPUT TASK QUICKLY AND ACCURATELY.
Common Problems when this skill is weak:
Slow completing a task, Find tasks more challenging
AUDITORY
PROCESSING – THE ABILITY TO DISCERN SOUND CODES, CRITICAL FOR LISTENING OR
COMPREHENSION
Common Problems when this skill is weak:
Difficulty sounding out words, Reverse letters or words, Struggling with
learning to read
VISUAL
PROCESSING – THE ABILITY TO MANIPULATE OBJECTS, PICTURES AND IMAGES IN SPACE.
Common Problems when this skill is weak:
Problems creating a mental picture, Trouble understanding what is read,
Difficulties remembering what is just read, Difficulties doing word math
problems, Difficulties following directions
LOGIC AND
REASONING – THE ABILITY TO REASON, FORM IDEAS AND SOLVE PROBLEMS
Common Problems when this skill is weak:
Unable to understand concepts, Problems handling a complicated task, Struggling
with maths
Information
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Centre"
9.NEUROFEEDBACK
WHAT IS
NEUROFEEDBACK?
There are many ways to measure a person’s
ability to learn, think and even behave. Written tests are the most common
method of identifying these things; however, these may not be entirely accurate
modes of measurement.
Neurofeedback is a technology that does
not require drugs in maximizing the brain function. It uses special monitoring
equipment that has been proven effectively amazing through clinical studies for
the past 40 years.
HOW DOES
NEURO FEEDBACK WORK?
Neurofeedback trains relaxation,
attention and concentration; it enhances memory and is most effective in
hyperactivity reduction.
The brain mapping process begins through the
attachment of Electroencephalography or EEG amplifier on the head, which is
connected to a computer that interprets the brainwaves as it increases with
activity. It entails placing a cap with 20 electrodes onto the head of the
participant and injecting gel into the electrodes. Then, we use the electrodes
to pick up microvolts of electrical potentials generated by the brain, which
show up as brainwaves (looks like squiggles). We then interpret the squiggles
in their raw form, as well as run them through many types of digitized filters
(i.e. different software), that breaks them into their respective components
and brainwave bandwidths of Delta (0-4 Hz), theta (5-8 Hz), alpha (9-12 Hz),
low beta (13-16 Hz), mid beta (17-25Hz), hi beta (26-40Hz), and gamma (41-70Hz).
With this data and the use of different
databases of hundreds of others’ EEGs, we are able to determine where the
individual is different from the norm—for better or for worse. We are able to
look not only at the brainwaves, but also the relationship of the brainwaves to
one another, the symmetry of the brain, the stability of the brainwave
relationships, and the areas where the brain might be generating problematic
signals, manifesting in problematic symptoms and behaviours.
The QEEG Brain Mapping Assessment is a
direct method that measures development, activity, balance, attention,
concentration, relaxation and learning activity by means of measuring the brain
waves, which are electrical signals, generated through the brain when
information is exchanged. Rather than written exams, this is very accurate
especially when it is for diagnosis or treatment for children with
hyperactivity problems.
Neurofeedback is perfectly safe! Do not
let the wires intimidate you. There are many long term benefits from this
scientific wonder for both children and adults alike. The following advantages
are:
·
Enhance cognitive
performance and motor skills
·
Develop attention
span and focus
·
Decrease
hyperactivity
·
Normalize sleeping
pattern
·
Reduce anxiety and
depression
·
Enhance Lessen
irritability and mood swingsperformance and motor skills
The following issues are also addressed:
·
ADD/ADHD related
issues
·
Addiction
·
Alzheimer's
·
Anger
·
Autism
·
Depression
·
Epilepsy and
Seizures
·
Migraine
·
Post traumatic
stress disorder
·
Involuntary muscle
and joint movement
Information
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Centre"
10.SENSORY INTEGRATION & MOTOR SKILLS THERAPY
DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE 7 SENSES?
Human beings have five main senses,
sound, sight, touch, taste, and smell. Sensory integration describes the
process in which the brain takes in information sent by these senses, organizes
it, and sends the message on how to respond accordingly. Besides the five
primary senses, the human body also has two other senses that are not discussed
much but are equally important:
·
Vestibular: a sense
of balance and movement
·
Proprioception: a
sense of body awareness, posture, and position
These two senses make you aware of where
your head and body are. When something is wrong, say you have a stiff neck,
these senses help you to realize you cannot move your head as you normally
would. Once your brain gets this message, you can then make informed decisions,
such as seek remedy for the stiff neck or avoid driving until all your senses
are in coordination.
Sensory integration is critical during
early childhood. Although most children follow the expected developmental
milestones for their age, some have trouble with sensory integration. Sensory
Processing Deficiencies where the brain has trouble receiving and responding to
information are especially common in children in the autism spectrum.
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HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR SENSORY INTEGRATION PROGRAM
At SBDC, we work on sensory integration
from a developmental pathway. We investigate and understand the child’s
developmental milestones and find gaps in the milestones. We will support and
facilitate closing the gaps and integrating the various systems to work
simultaneously
INTEGRATED
DEVELOPMENTAL MODEL
Sensory Integration focuses on the
integration of all developmental areas (i.e. social, emotional, motor, sensory,
language and cognitive skills). We promote integrated learning through varied
sensory experiences to ensure a solid foundation for all social, emotional and
academic learning.
EXCITING
SENSORY RICH ENVIRONMENT
The environment is critical when it comes
to sensory stimulation. This is exactly why we have sensory-rich gyms equipped
with trampolines, ladders, swings, balance beams, exercise balls to help your
child to have a unique sensory experience designed to challenge your child’s
senses
FUN AND
PLAY-BASED ACTIVITIES
Even if your child has sensory
deficiencies, he or she is still a child who enjoys playing. We use activities
such as climbing, spinning, swinging, rocking, and bouncing to keep the child
entertained and interested in the therapy. We also use varied games to
stimulate your child’s senses
MAXMISE
EFFECTIVENESS
Other therapies can work very effectively
in conjunction with Sensory Integration and have been successfully used by our
team. These include: the Listening Program, DIR Floortime, Cognitive and
Language Training. They can complement each other well to help the child
develop holistically.
Information
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11.DIR FLOORTIME
DIRFloortime® was started by Dr. Stanley
Greenspan, and it is a relationship-based developmental approach which aims to
build respectful, meaningful interactions that are tailored to each child’s
individual differences and promotes each child’s development to their fullest
potential.
The D describes development, and this is
where we look at how the child is developing, emotionally and cognitively.
Establishing a firm understanding of how the child is performing in relation to
the six Functional Emotional Developmental milestones that a child needs to
master. As the child achieves each goal, they experience emotional and
intellectual growth. Students are encouraged to push their interactive skills
by engaging with others through play.
We recommend this program for children
that requires additional support in developing better social communication
skills to interact well with their peers.
THE SIX MILESTONES OF FLOORTIME INCLUDE:
1. Attention and Self-regulation
2. Mutual Engagement in relationships
3. Intentional Two-way communication.
4. Complex and Purposeful communication.
5. Elaborating Emotional Ideas.
6. Bridging Emotional Thinking.
The I describes the unique ways each
person takes in, regulates, responds to, and comprehends the world around them.
Understanding the child’s particular pattern of challenges is essential for
helping them. These challenges may
include differences the child shows in:
·
Sensory processing
capacities
·
Auditory/ Language
processing
·
Visual-spatial
processing, or in
·
Motor planning and
sequencing
The R describes how relationships fuel
our development. The approach assists
therapists in developing their relationship with the child, so they can be
effective in helping the child learn and grow. The approach also aims to ensure
that the child is developing meaningful relationships with people around them.
Information
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