FAQ's
Popular Questions
Find quick answers to common questions about our services, assessments, therapies, and how to get started with Nuture-CDC.
Nuture Child Development Clinic is a diagnostic and therapy service with a multidisciplinary team of experts who assess, diagnose and provide therapy for children who are experiencing delays in development, learning or exhibit behavioral diffculties. We are not a school.
Children from 18 months to 12 years with development delays, learning or behavioural difficulties.
We run full fledged functional and diagnostic assessments for children 18 months through college. Assessments we do include:
Developmental assessments for children birth to 6 years
Language profiling for children with language delays
Developmental assessment for migrating families with special needs child seeking Visa approval
Learning assessments for children with learning gaps in Attentional focus, Reading, Math or difficulties with Handwriting.
Play & Social skills assessment for children with social interaction difficulties
Diagnostic assessments for children with developmental, learning or behavioral issues such as Autism, ADHD, ODD, Selective Mutism and Communication delays.
All assessments are done by our multidisciplinary team for comprehensiveness and ease for each family. Assessments come with a written report and recommendations.
To ensure alignment with your assessment needs, we will schedule an initial consultation with you virtually via video conferencing, by phone or an in-person visit to our office depending on your location and needs as a family. After the initial consultation meeting, a tentative assessment date is scheduled.
On the assessment day your child will be seen by the team and a post-assessment briefing will be given on findings. Assessments typically lasts for 3 - 6 hours depending on the child and nature of assessment.
We offer a suite of services to support your child’s development and learning success:
Developmental screening services to check milestones progression
Comprehensive developmental assessment & diagnosis
Early intervention for children with Language delays, Autism & ADHD
Speech therapy
Occupational therapy
Educational therapy
Verbal Behaviour Therapy for Children with Autism
Handwriting improvement training
Yes, to minimize wait time and allow the consultant to prepare for your visit, please book an appointment in advance.
Initial consultation usually spans between 30-60mintues. This is different from follow-up assessment visits that run for between 4 to 6hours.
You will need to come along with previous reports relating to your current concerns about your child. Additionally, you will need to complete the Nuture- CDC online consultation form.
That will depend on how recent and comprehensive the last report is. We give consideration to professional reports that include both a diagnosis and baseline descriptions of your child’s overall functioning. Reports should be as recent as last 3 months.
Yes please, it is recommended you come along with your child. This allows the consultant to briefly observe your child in addition to reviewing completed online assessments/ screens.
We recommend that both parents attend if it is possible. However, each family should decide what works best for them.
Nuture-CDC runs a robust telehealth service for all our services using a combination of video conferencing and digital assessment tools. Kindly fill our contact form with details on what services you need, and one of our telehealth consultants will reach you.