Certificate in Child Development – Understanding Early Development & Its Impact Across Functional Domains

**THIS COURSE IS PENDING FOR CPE POINTS FOR ALLIED HEALTH PROFESSIONALS; SUBJECT TO APPROVAL

Overview

In Singapore’s fast-paced, achievement-driven environment, children are expected to thrive across multiple domains—academically, socially, emotionally, and behaviorally. Yet many of the challenges observed in preschool, primary, and even secondary school students can be traced back to foundations laid in the earliest years of life. This 3-day virtual certificate program provides professionals with a comprehensive, developmentally grounded understanding of how early sensory, motor, executive function, social-emotional, sleep, feeding, and toileting capacities shape a child’s long-term ability to participate and succeed within Singapore’s unique educational and social landscape.

Across 12 highly interactive 90-minute sessions, participants will learn how early neurodevelopment forms the blueprint for later learning readiness, behavioral self-regulation, social participation, and daily functional independence. Although the program focuses on infants and toddlers, the content is deeply relevant for professionals who work with older children, teens, or adolescents. Developmental delays, sensory processing differences, and early relational disruptions often reveal themselves more clearly as demands increase in the competitive, structured systems common in Singapore.

Course Fees & Closing Dates

Schedule

Duration : 3 Full-Day Workshop

Corporate Registration Individual Registration

Speaker

Maude Le Roux, OTR/L, SIPT, DIR/Floortime® Expert Trainer

Maude Le Roux is a global trainer in multiple methodologies and a mentor to therapists from multidisciplinary teams. She opened her practice, A Total Approach in Glen Mills, PA, USA in 2001, and the satellite office in Allentown, PA in 2023. Maude started her training career in 2007 and opened her online academy in 2019. She has designed the Developmental Pathways Model (DPM), which she applies to her own unique assessment and intervention protocol for major diagnosis such as Dyspraxia, ADHD and Executive Functions, Autism, Reading and Writing Disorders, and Trauma and Attachment. Maude served 9 years on the Board of Directors for ATTACh and currently serves on their Advisory Board. She also serves on the Advisory Board for LSWorks (Neuralign program). She is a co-author of two books and more recently wrote a chapter on Trauma and the Body in “Healing Connections” which launched in September 2024. Maude received an award for “Continued child advocacy” through the ATTACh organization in September 2024. She also received the Champion Award through ICDL in November 2024. Maude has a “whole child” approach to care and intervention and equipping the child, while empowering the parent is at the core of who she is as a clinician and trainer.

Course Outline

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Day 3:

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

Day 1:

1. Identify and explain the essential sensory, motor, and regulatory processes that develop in the first three years of life and describe how these systems support later functional participation in learning, social, and daily activities
2. Analyze early developmental patterns (including sensory modulation profiles, motor milestones, and regulation capacities) and interpret how disruptions in these foundations may contribute to functional challenges in older children
3. Evaluate clinical indicators of sensory-motor, praxis, and sensory modulation in infants and toddlers, and link these indicators to long-term outcomes relevant to educational and social contexts

Day 2:

1. Describe the developmental pathway from early sensory-motor capacities to later executive functions (working memory, inhibition, flexibility) and identify early risk factors that predict difficulties in school-age children
2. Differentiate between behavioral symptoms and their developmental origins by applying a neurodevelopmental, sensory-emotional, and relational framework to case examples across age groups
3. Integrate knowledge of attachment, emotional development, and executive functioning to formulate developmentally informed intervention hypotheses for children exhibiting behavioral or learning challenges in structured learning environments

Day 3:

1. Assess sleep, feeding, and toileting challenges through a developmental lens, and identify the sensory, motor, emotional, and executive function factors that influence these functional domains
2. Apply evidence-informed strategies to support developmental readiness in sleep, feeding, and toileting, and adapt these strategies for diverse family structures and cultural practices
3. Develop comprehensive, developmentally grounded intervention plans that connect early developmental foundations to functional challenges observed in older children and adolescents, with clear rationales suitable for professional documentation and CE competency.

Who Can Benefit?

• Occupational Therapists
• Physiotherapists
• Speech & Language Therapists
• Clinical and Educational Psychologists
• Early Interventionists
• Learning Support Specialists
• Pediatricians and Medical Professionals
• Counsellors and Mental Health Providers
• Social Workers and Case Managers
• Early Childhood Educators & Leaders

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