Find the right support for your child

A BCBA, Senior Speech Therapist or Occupational Therapist will conduct an initial consultation, which aims at discussing parental concerns, providing recommendations, and determining the best support for the child.

*Multi-Disciplinary Consultations are also available based on the child's needs.

Initial consultation may focus on behavioral issues, educational or developmental concerns, speech and language concerns, feeding issues, and occupational therapy concerns (e.g., sensory processing or handwriting). Depending on parental concerns, the consultation will be booked with the clinician specializing in the respective areas.

Duration: 1 hour

Price: 630 QR

Consultations do not include a report and recommendations are based on the clinical observation of the child and the parent interview. No standardized tests are administered (only screening tools are used).

**If you require a diagnostic assessment, it is recommended to contact Sidra Medicine or HMC Rumailah.

A post consultation summary can be provided upon request (price 220 QR)

Understanding a child or young person’s individual profile is an important first step toward providing the right support. CDC offers a comprehensive range of psychological and psychoeducational assessments to identify strengths, clarify areas of need, and guide effective intervention at home, in school, and in daily life.

Psychoeducational Assessment

A comprehensive evaluation of cognitive abilities and academic achievement using measures such as the WISC, WPPSI, or WAIS together with the WIAT-4. It helps identify learning strengths and difficulties, including concerns related to reading, writing, mathematics, and dyslexia, and provides individualized educational recommendations.

Cognitive Ability Assessment

Evaluates intellectual functioning, reasoning, memory, processing speed, verbal comprehension, visual-spatial abilities, and problem-solving skills. Depending on the individual’s age and needs, assessments may include the WPPSI, WISC, WAIS, or Raven’s Progressive Matrices.

ADHD and Attention Assessment

Examines attention, concentration, impulsivity, activity level, and executive functioning. Assessments may include Conners-4, CAARS, computerized attention measures such as TOVA or IVA-2, and information gathered from parents, teachers, and the individual.

Executive Functioning Assessment

Explores skills such as planning, organization, working memory, cognitive flexibility, emotional regulation, and self-monitoring. Measures may include the BRIEF and selected D-KEFS subtests.

Child Behaviour and Emotional Assessment

Evaluates a child’s emotional wellbeing, behaviour, attention, social functioning, and adjustment across home and school environments. Measures may include the BASC-3 and other age-appropriate clinical tools and rating scales.

Psychological Health Assessment

Assesses emotional and psychological wellbeing, including symptoms associated with anxiety, depression, stress, mood, self-esteem, and general psychological distress. Measures may include the SCL-90-R, the Beck Assessment series, and quality-of-life assessments.

Personality Assessment

Provides a deeper understanding of personality patterns, emotional functioning, coping styles, interpersonal relationships, and areas of psychological concern. Depending on the individual’s age and needs, measures may include the MMPI-3, MCMI-IV, and Big Five personality assessments.

Adaptive Functioning Assessment

Evaluates practical everyday skills across communication, socialization, daily living, independence, and community participation. Measures may include the Vineland-3 and information gathered from caregivers, educators, and other relevant professionals.

Social Skills Assessment

Examines social communication, interaction, cooperation, emotional awareness, self-control, and relationship-building skills. Measures may include the SSIS and relevant parent, teacher, and self-report questionnaires.

Full Cognitive Profile

Provides an in-depth understanding of an individual’s cognitive strengths and areas requiring support across attention, memory, language, processing speed, reasoning, and executive functioning. The assessment battery is selected according to the referral question and individual needs.

Comprehensive Developmental Assessment

A multidisciplinary evaluation that may include clinical psychology, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, sensory processing, behaviour, adaptive functioning, and developmental skills. Findings are integrated to provide a complete picture of the child’s strengths, needs, and recommended supports.

Each assessment is selected according to the individual’s age, presenting concerns, and referral needs. Families receive a detailed report, individualized recommendations, and a feedback session to explain the findings and guide appropriate support, intervention, or educational planning.

All assessments are administered by a licensed clinical psychologist with extensive experience in psychological and psychometric assessment.

Contact us for further information and assessment prices.

SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENTS

Our Speech Therapists offer comprehensive speech and language assessments for children with various speech and developmental delays, and diagnoses including speech delay, autism, apraxia of speech, and concerns relating to articulation, feeding, phonological processing, stuttering, among others.

Each evaluation (and subsequent re-evaluations) includes an in-depth case review, standardized assessment and test scores, detailed report including goals, objectives, and recommendations with regards to the best therapy approach for your child.

Duration: 2-3 hours contact time with child and parent plus 2 hours report writing

Price: 630 QR per hour*

OCCUPATIONAL THERAPY ASSESSMENTS

Our occupational therapists conduct comprehensive evaluations of child's abilities in relation to developmental skills/milestones, academic expectations, sensory processing, fine and gross motor skills, activities of daily living, and other domains of development. We use a variety of standardized assessments as part of our assessments. We offer evaluations and re-evaluations for children with diverse developmental delays, diagnoses, and needs including sensory processing disorders, learning disabilities, autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders (ADHD), attention deficit disorders (ADD), developmental delays and birth injuries, cerebral palsy and spina bifida, genetic disorders (Down syndrome/Mosaic etc.), and behavioral problems, among others. Our evaluation and re-evaluation process includes a comprehensive case review, use of standardized screening tools, and detailed reports with recommendations relating to the most appropriate intervention approaches to suit your child's individual needs.

Duration: 1-3 hours contact time with child and parent plus 2 hours report writing

Price: 630 QR per hour*

BCBA SCHOOL OR HOME CONSULTATION

Conducted by Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA)

Duration: 2 hours observation, 1 hour report writing plus travel time

Price: 630 per hour

*depending on child’s age, language level, cooperation, for older children 1 additional hour may be required. Follow up meeting will be scheduled with parents to discuss the outcomes and the recommendations.

All assessments include a report and involve the use of standardized tests such as CELF, PLS-5, SSI-4, SRS (depending on the assessment).

Our Speech and Language Team is committed to helping children find their unique voices as they use language to think, learn, and develop social relationships. We provide speech therapy sessions, consultations, and language assessments for a variety of communication difficulties. We provide current, research-driven therapy by highly trained speech-language therapists.

Duration: 45 minutes

Price: 420 QAR

PROMPT (Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets) is a specialized, evidence-based approach to speech therapy tailored to specific needs of the child. Our certified PROMPT therapists use tactile cues to guide the movement of oral muscles, ensuring precise speech sound production. Beyond just sounds, PROMPT addresses rhythm, stress, and intonation, resulting in more natural, fluent speech patterns. 

PROMPT therapy is dynamic and engaging, incorporating games, activities, and exercises that make the learning process enjoyable and effective. PROMPT will particularly be beneficial for children with articulation and speech sound disorders, and those with apraxia of speech or motor planning difficulties. 

Duration: 45 minutes

Price: 420 QAR

We specialize in compassionate feeding therapy to help children and their families navigate the journey toward healthier eating habits. Our experienced team of feeding therapists is trained in the Sequential Oral Sensory (SOS) Approach to Feeding, an evidenced-based method that tailors interventions to address a wide range of feeding challenges. We also incorporate elements of the feeding intervention based on the oral placement therapy (OPT) approach as well as behavioral feeding approaches. We understand that each child is unique, and our goal is to support them in building a positive relationship with food.  Thus, the choice of strategies depends on the individual needs of each child.

Feeding therapy is centered around enhancing chewing and swallowing abilities while expanding the range of foods a child accepts. It is a personalized process because several factors come into play when designing a feeding program and choosing the right approach. These difficulties can stem from issues like physical limitations, challenges with the sensory properties of food, oral-motor skills development, behavior components, or medical diagnoses impacting cognition.

*Complex feeding difficulties often require a team of professionals, in which case appropriate referrals to specialists will be made.

Duration: 45 minutes

Price: 420 QAR

Our Occupational Therapy team provides intervention to help children meet developmental milestones, overcome sensory challenges, and improve self-care, play and self-regulation skills. The focus of our pediatric occupational therapy team is to strengthen gross motor and fine motor skills, sensory motor skills, visual motor skills, and handwriting skills. We focus on increasing child’s independence in the activities of daily living, academic performance, personal management, social skills through play-based activities.

Duration : 45 minutes

Price: 420 QAR

Sensory integration (SI) therapy is an integral part of a multi-disciplinary approach, which can be very helpful in improving the ability to process and integrate sensory information. Being part of OT, it involves the use of various sensory experiences to help your child learn to process and respond appropriately to sensory input. This therapy is particularly helpful for children who present with sensory processing disorders and autism spectrum disorder, but it can also be beneficial for children with ADHD, ADD, Learning Disability among others. Sensory integration therapy aims to enhance the child’s daily functioning by improving his or her ability to process and respond to sensory information better, leading to improved learning processes, skills acquisition, and overall quality of life.

Duration : 45 minutes

Price: 420 QAR

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) therapy is a form of intervention based on the science of learning and behavior, which aims to improve socially significant behaviors and reducing problem behaviors. ABA therapy is also very helpful in improving language and communication skills, developing play and social skills, imitation skills, attention, focus, and academic skills. It can also help decrease challenging behaviors. ABA therapy can be particularly effective for young children who present with symptoms of autism, although it has also been found helpful for children with other diagnoses such as developmental delays and speech delays, as well as typically developing children who present with challenging behaviors.

CDC implements play-based, child-centered, and trauma-informed ABA models.

ABA THERAPY WITH AN ABA THERAPIST

Duration: 75 minutes

Price: 470 QAR

ABA THERAPY WITH A BCBA (Supervisor)

Duration: 75 minutes

Price: 580 QAR

Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) are US-certified professionals who are trained in the field of behavior analysis at a supervisory level. BCBAs develop and supervise all aspects of child’s ABA therapy. As per best practices and BACB guidelines, every child receiving ABA therapy at CDC is provided with ongoing BCBA supervision.

Duration: 1 hour

Price: 530 QAR

BCBA Supervision is an essential part of any ABA program. As per the US guidelines and best practices, which we follow, every child attending ABA therapy must receive BCBA supervision with a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA).

Following internationally recognized best practices, the Early Intervention Program (EIP) at CDC offers 20 hours per week of individualized therapy sessions (1:1) and group-based sessions for children with autism and related disorders aged 18 months - 6 years of age. Our program employs a multi-modal approach, which incorporates a variety of interventions from across the multi-disciplinary teams including speech and language, occupational therapy, ABA therapy, music therapy, feeding therapy ensuring the student has a comprehensive and balanced therapy program that meets their individual needs.

20 hours per week

Includes eight 1:1 multidisciplinary therapy sessions (3 x SLP, 3 x ABA, and 2 x OT per week), and group therapy sessions.

5 children per class with 4 therapists.

Price: 12-15k QAR per month (ask for availability)

Our social skills groups offer a supportive and engaging program designed to help children improve their social interaction and communication skills. Social skills groups employ an interactive and structured approach that targets essential social skills and behaviors. Children in our groups will learn, practice, and apply these skills in a fun and collaborative setting. Our skilled and compassionate speech and language therapists conduct a variety of activities and tasks designed to enhance social and emotional competence as well as boosting confidence in children.

Our groups usually include 4 children with 1-2 speech therapists. The program is based on specialized evidence-based approaches and have targeted personalized goals.

The groups provide interactive learning, and we focus on age-appropriate targeted skill development as well as inclusivity. 

SOCIAL SKILLS GROUP THERAPY

4 children with 1-2 SLP

Duration: 45 minutes

Price: 325 QAR per child

LANGUAGE BOOST GROUP THERAPY

2 children with 1 SLP

Duration: 45 minutes

Price: 325 QAR per child

Parents and caregivers training is an integral element of therapy at CDC, which aims at empowering you to be an active participant in your child's therapy program, improve your child’s language, communication and social skills, help you learn how to effectively manage challenging behaviors, and enhance the quality of life for your entire family.

Parent training sessions are conducted by one of our Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs) an OT or a Speech Therapist, and can be conducted at the center, in the community or at home, depending on the family’s needs.

We also encourage parents to attend their child’s sessions in order to learn the strategies that are used by our therapists in order to use them outside of the therapy room.

Parent coaching may focus on various areas of development such as speech and language, managing challenging behaviors, toilet training, sleeping issues, feeding issues, sensory concerns, handwriting, attention and concentration difficulties, among others.

Duration: 1 hour

Price: 580 QAR

Home-based consultations and parent training sessions offer a specialized intervention for children with autism and other developmental disorders that take place in the comfort of their own homes.

Our Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBA) work one-on-one with the child and his/her parents and caregivers to implement behavior modification techniques, to improve language and communication, social skills, life skills, etc.

This therapy involves creating structured learning environments and using positive reinforcement to teach and reinforce appropriate behaviors, while reducing challenging ones. Home consultations and parent training sessions are highly personalized, targeting the specific needs and goals of the individual, and it provides the advantage of familiar surroundings for effective learning and skill development.

Family involvement is encouraged to promote consistency and generalization of skills to daily life.

Price: 630 QAR + Transportation (if more than 20 min commute)

School and nursery consultation services are valuable resources for parents and educators seeking to provide the best educational experiences for children.

These consultations are provided by our Board Certified Behavior Analysts (BCBAs), who are experienced educational consultants offering support and guidance in various areas of educational provision for various profiles of learners.

For schools, this might include evaluation of behavioral issues, curriculum development, teacher training, and creating a supportive learning environment. In the case of nurseries, the focus may be on designing age-appropriate programs, ensuring the child has the right support, and promoting early childhood development.

These consultations aim to enhance the quality of education and childcare, tailored to the specific needs of each child, fostering their growth and well-being in a nurturing and educational setting.

Price: 630 QAR per hour + transportation (if more than 20 min commute)

Progress report (single discipline)

Price : 320 QAR

Progress report (multi-disciplinary)

Price: 550 QAR

Workshops on a variety of topics offered by our clinicians for schools, nurseries, parents, companies amongst others.

For over 10 years, Child Development Center has been at the forefront of professional development training on topics related to early education, special needs, and inclusion. 

Our highly qualified staff is able to customize our presentations to suit your goals and target audience. Workshops can be conducted at your location or at CDC.

Prices available upon request.