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Our team
The Faces Behind Our Exceptional Care
Our team at Kuwait Developmental Center is a dedicated group of experts, including specialized educators, therapists, and support staff, committed to fostering each child’s growth and success. With compassion, collaboration, and a shared vision, we create personalized programs that empower children to reach their fullest potential in a supportive and inclusive environment.
HIBA YOUSIF
BEHAVIORAL THERAPIST
ZAINA ALHAWASH
SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPIST
AIDA AHMAD
BEHAVIORAL THERAPIST
MAIS ALKHATIB
SPEECH & LANGUAGE THERAPIST
SAMAH ALANSARI
Programs Supervisor
Applied Behavioral Analyst
Our Services
Learn More About Our
Therapeutic Services
Our Programs :
Empowering Children
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School Readiness Program
(Early years)
This program focuses on children’s school readiness and preparing them for school entry interviews and assessments by developing confidence and giving them a voice in the new environments ,learning in caring atmosphere and ensuring various and interesting methodologies that suit individual child’s needs and learning style.
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Early Intervention Program
It is a comprehensive and intensive program consists of regularly scheduled sessions by which specific developmental needs are addressed in relation to communication, social skills, self-management, cognition, pre-academic skills (Imitation, matching, letters and numbers concepts etc)
Values of Behavioral Therapy:
● Improving social interaction
● Reducing interfering behaviors (E.g self-injury)
● Generalizing behavior to any real life situations
(taking orders perform and complete task in classrooms etc...)
● Teaching new skills such as self-management
Behavioral Therapy
Behavioral Therapy services focus mainly on motivating, rewarding and reinforcing children to promote desirable and positive behaviors and to allow negative ones such as aggression, social withdrawal, and refusal to participate somatic complaints out of control anger, poor tolerance, excessive frustration and self-injurious behaviors to extinguish. Behavioral Therapy uses learning principles to adopt socially significant behaviors in real life settings. Socially significant behaviors include but not limited to ,social skills ,communication, play, gross motor skills and self-control | management.
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Values of Speech and Language Therapy:
● Improvement in the ability to understand
and express thoughts , ideas and feelings
● Achievement of school readiness skills
● Improving vocal quality
● Development of social skills
● Developing self-esteem and independence
Speech & Language Therapy
Speech and Language Therapy is a service of evaluating and supporting children who have difficulties with communication, which involves listening , speaking and reading skills.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy services focus on helping children with physical, sensory or cognitive disorders or disabilities to be independent in all areas of their lives (home , schools and community)
Values of Occupational Therapy:
● Helping kids to improve fine motor skills and develop good handwriting .
● Improving Hand-Eye coordination) hitting a target, copying etc...)
● Assisting kids who have sensory issues.
● Supporting kids with developmental delays , disorders or physical disabilities to learn most basic skills needed to feed themselves, getting dressed, brushing teeth etc ...)
Shadow Teaching
Shadow teaching is an additional support service that is mainly provided in mainstream classrooms for children with different disorders /disabilities where our professional therapists work hand- in- hand with lead schoolteachers ,school social counselors and parents to bridge the gap between the specific needs of these children and the resources available within the regular classroom setting by developing behavior management strategies , following an individualized education plan and encouraging participation of student in classroom and social interactions with peers .
Values of Shadow Teaching:
● Encouraging student independence
● Providing academic support
● Promoting inclusivity
● Improving social interactions
● Ensuring safety