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Our team at MPEC is committed to providing you with the following services

Assessments

Assessment

Young children, teenagers and adults experience various challenges that affect their thinking and functioning. These needs, that hinder the individual’s development, could be due to their environment and circumstances, or they could be manifestations of underlying disabilities or disorders of some kind.

 

Psychological testing helps us find out what the possible influences or causes may be. The tests are generally objective, interpretable and can inform more relevant and meaningful support and accommodations for the individual. A child with poor academic grades or attention issues or meltdowns or low motivation may have specific learning difficulties or attention deficits or poor emotional regulation or lack of executive functioning skills or may have a combination of all these.

 

Assessments allow professionally trained psychologists to use standardised and informal tests, interviews, and observations as well as information gathered from different settings to assess the child’s needs and the nature of his problems comprehensively.

 

Our psychological assessments and reports are recognised and accepted locally (by MOE, Special Schools, International Schools, etc) and internationally as well. We observe closely the requirements specified in the MOE Professional Practice Guidelines.

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Our assessment services include but are not limited to the following:

Cognitive

  • Intellectual Functioning - educational placement /school setting suitability

  • Gifted testing

  • Special School applications

  • Problem-solving, reasoning abilities, working memory

Psycho-Educational

  • Specific Learning disabilities - Dyslexia, Dyscalculia, Language Disorder

  • Behaviour difficulties - Attention/Focus, self-regulation difficulties - Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder

  • Executive Functioning – skills in planning, organising, prioritising, time management

Developmental

  • Social Communication difficulties

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD or Dyspraxia)

Socio-Emotional

  • Emotional regulation

  • Anxiety

  • Anger

  • Confidence

  • Motivation

  • Friendship issues

  • Self-Management

Process

Our Process is as follows

Phase 1

Consultation

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Interview with Parents

Phase 2

Information gathering from various stakeholders (i.e. school/home observations, feedback from teachers and other professionals)

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Assessments with Child

(may include school observation, interview and social conversations)

Phase 3

Sharing of results

 

Recommendations of support

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Full Psychological Report

Child at Psychologist

Intervention

Intervention, at any stage or age, is important and beneficial for positive growth in a child. It involves customising strategies to teach skills that are essential for the respective child’s development. With a clear identification of the child’s strengths and needs, after a proper evaluation, we will discuss an intervention plan to build skills in areas such as emotional, social, academic, executive functioning and cognitive development.  

Intervention

Supervision

Margaret is a registered Clinical Supervisor with the Singapore Registry of Psychologists (SRP) and a member of the Supervisor committee in SRP.

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She has provided professional supervision to many trainee psychologists as well as qualified practising psychologists for about 14 years in Singapore. This includes students undergoing their Master’s programme in Educational Psychology at NIE, and post-grad Clinical Psychology programmes at James Cook University (Singapore) and the National University of Singapore. Currently Margaret supervises several psychologists working with children with intellectual impairment and/or multiple disabilities in Special Educational Schools, as well as psychologists working in private organisations and the universities.

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Margaret believes in training and developing psychologists with the professional knowledge and competencies they need to practise ethically, confidently and effectively to help their clients. To this end, she continues to offer clinical supervision as well as peer supervision.

Supervision
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