Special needs support across the UAE

From first concern to independence.

You are the one holding it together — the referrals, the reports, the re-explaining at every new appointment. We take that on, and we plan for the day you stop needing us.

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What we are actually fixing

Support for your child exists. It just doesn't hold together.

Every provider owns a slot in a calendar. Nobody owns the result. So the work of joining it up falls to the one person already carrying the most.

Today

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Six relationships, six records, six versions of your child's history — and no line between any of them except the one running through you.

  • Six calendars to keep in step
  • The whole history, re-told at every new appointment
  • Nobody answerable for whether any of it is working

With us

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  • 01 One Independence Plan
  • 02 One Family Lead who answers to you
  • 03 One record, and you own it
  • 04 One monthly fee
The Independence Pathway

Support rises, then comes down. On purpose.

The bars are what we provide. The line is your child. Every stage has a written ending agreed before it starts — including the last one.

Understand
Plan
Build
Transfer
Step Back
Stage 01

Understand

A functional needs assessment across home and school: what your child can already do, what gets in the way, what triggers what, and what the school can realistically deliver. Diagnosis goes to an independent clinician.

  • Fixed fee, standalone
  • Home and school observation
  • 2–3 weeks
Stage 02

Plan

The Independence Plan: goals in plain English, intensity, settings, projected timeline and review dates. Everyone works from this one page — you, the school and every practitioner who touches the plan.

  • Included with assessment
  • Written for parents
  • Reviewed termly
Stage 03

Build

Clinical intervention and home support, plus coaching for you. This is the most intensive stage, deliberately — it is where skills are taught, and it is meant to be the peak. Data is taken against the goals every session.

  • Monthly programme fee
  • Clinical supervision
  • Data every session
Stage 04

Transfer

A supervised learning support assistant in the classroom. Skills move out of the therapy room and into school life, and the teaching team is trained to carry them. The work aligns to the school's own IEP rather than running beside it.

  • Monthly programme fee
  • Supervised LSA
  • School team trained
Stage 05

Step Back

Support is reduced on purpose, in planned steps, as milestones are met. This stage costs you less than the ones before it. That is the design, not a discount.

  • Reducing fee
  • Independence milestones
  • Discharge or maintenance
The five stages

Every stage has a defined ending. Including the last one.

Support that never ends is not support, it is a subscription. So each stage is written with the condition that closes it, agreed before it starts.

01

Understand

A functional needs assessment across home and school. What your child can already do, what gets in the way, what triggers what, and what the school can realistically deliver. Diagnosis goes to an independent clinician.

This stage ends when You, the school and we have a written plan all three of us agree with.
02

Plan

The Independence Plan: goals in plain English, intensity, settings, projected timeline and review dates. Everyone works from this one page.

This stage ends when Goals, intensity and review dates are signed off before any support starts.
03

Build

Clinical intervention and home support, plus coaching for you. The most intensive stage, deliberately. Weekly data against the goals.

This stage ends when The target skills are reliable in the setting where they were taught.
04

Transfer

A supervised LSA in the classroom, skills moved from the therapy room into school life, and the teaching team trained to carry it. Aligned to the school's IEP.

This stage ends when The school team can sustain the support with less of us in the room.
05

Step Back

Support reduced on purpose in planned steps as milestones are met. It costs less than the stages before it — that is the design.

This stage ends when Your child manages without us, or at a level your family can hold.
The Independence File

One record. You own it.

Everything about your child's support lives in one file: the plan, the goals, the session data, the reports, the reviews and every decision with the reason it was made.

The file is yours, not ours. You can read all of it at any time, and you can export the whole thing free — including on the day you decide to leave us. We will send it to whoever you name, in a format the next provider can actually use.

We keep the record because being able to see the work is the only way you can hold us to it.

Illustrative file. Figures show the format, not a real child.

How we're built

Four rules that cost us money, on purpose.

Most of what goes wrong in this sector is not bad practice. It is a business model that quietly rewards more hours. These four rules remove that incentive, and each one has a price we have agreed to pay.

Rule 01

We don't diagnose our own clients.

Formal diagnosis stays with independent clinicians we neither own nor pay. The people who decide what your child needs are not the people who profit from the answer.

Rule 02

Nobody is paid on recommended hours.

Assessors are salaried. Any recommendation above a set intensity needs a second signature from someone with no commercial role. Recommending more can never pay anyone here more.

Rule 03

Every plan names other providers.

Including our competitors, where they are the better fit for your child. If the right answer is a centre we don't run, the plan says so in writing, with the name.

Rule 04

We publish how often we say no.

Once a year we publish the share of assessed children who did not become clients. No referral fee moves in either direction, to us or from us.

The Independence Report

We publish whether it worked.

Four numbers, once a year, for everyone we assessed — not a selected sample. These are the measures we want to be judged on.

Not yet published

Support hours reduced within 12 months

Average change in weekly hours per child, first year to date.

Not yet published

Median days from first contact to plan

First message received to a signed Independence Plan.

Not yet published

Independence milestones met against projection

Milestones reached, compared with the date we projected at Plan.

Not yet published

Children assessed and referred elsewhere

Assessed children who did not become clients, and where they went.

These figures are blank on purpose. They fill in from our real first-year data and are published in full when that year closes. We would rather show you an empty box than a number we made up.

Three ways in

Start where you are.

For families

You've noticed something.

You don't need a diagnosis, a referral or a file of reports to talk to us. Tell us what you've seen and we'll tell you what we'd do first.

  • Twenty-minute call, no assessment, no cost
  • A named Family Lead from day one
  • Fixed-fee assessment you can buy on its own
How this works for families
For schools & nurseries

Support isn't reaching a child.

You have a pupil the current provision cannot hold. We work to your IEP, not beside it, and we train your team to carry the strategies once our hours come down.

  • Supervised LSAs, not an agency placement
  • Termly written review shared with your SENCO
  • Handover plan agreed before we start
How this works for schools
For clinicians

You've made a recommendation.

Someone has to deliver it. Refer a family to us and you get a written implementation report showing what was actually delivered against it, and what it changed.

  • Written implementation report on every referral
  • No fees move in either direction
  • Your recommendation is not re-litigated by us
How this works for clinicians
Where this starts

Tell us what you've noticed.

Twenty minutes on the phone with someone who does this every day. No assessment, no cost, and no obligation to become a client at the end of it.

If we're not the right people, we'll tell you who is. That includes naming providers we don't own, and it costs you nothing either way.