Founded in 1983 by a team of parents headed by Kim Sharman, Watchdog Early Education Centre is a registered charitable organization in Hong Kong providing intensive and well-rounded early intervention and therapy programs for children with special educational needs aged from newborn to six. Watchdog operates separate English and Cantonese speaking programs. The children we support have a wide spectrum of challenges including Global Developmental Delay, Autistic Spectrum Disorder(ASD), Cerebral Palsy, Down Syndrome, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder(ADHD) as well as a variety of learning difficulties and physical disabilities. We offer psychological assessment, specialist teaching both on an individual basis or small group setting, Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, and Music Therapy. We serve over 450 children annually.
We operate two centers, one in Hong Kong Central and the other in Kowloon Jordan. Our Hong Kong Centre caters to children who are on the government waitlist in our regular program. On the other hand, the self-financed Jordan center, partially subsidized by the Community Chest, admits children by direct application to Watchdog. We also offer Saturday Self-financing Programmes at both centers since 1999 to fill the critical service gap for children to receive appropriate timely training and therapeutic service at their earliest possible age.
Watchdog aims to provide intensive and well-rounded early intervention and therapy services for pre-school children with special educational needs, helping them to fulfill their full potential at the earliest possible age.
To provide individual and group educational and therapeutic programs to pre-school children with special education needs, helping them to achieve a well-rounded development in speech and language, physical, intellectual and social aspects, preparing them for entry into the mainstream school system.
To offer support services for parents and caregivers, ensuring their children can receive appropriate home-based training and care. Services include educational talks or workshops on childcare, counseling and nutrition advice, special needs education school visits, and lending services at toy libraries, etc.
Watchdog is an early education center in Hong Kong that runs separate programs for both English and Cantonese-speaking children with special educational needs (SEN). We provide a variety of individual and group educational, and therapeutic programs to pre-school children with special education needs, helping them to achieve a well-rounded development in speech and language, physical, intellectual and social aspects. We also offer support services for parents and caregivers, ensuring children can receive appropriate home-based training and care.
Our programs are provided by highly qualified early interventionists specialists who are professionally trained in fields associated with special education, early education, and psychology. Our staff members include an educational psychologist special needs teachers speech, occupational, physio, and music therapists special child care workers, and social workers.
