Most people who do this work well have at some point been placed in a classroom with no targets, no supervision and no idea what success would look like. We built the organisation around not doing that.
Every placement comes with written goals, a supervising clinician, and a defined condition for ending it. Nobody is sent into a classroom to improvise for a term.
The clinician who wrote the goals supervises the work against them, sees the same session data you record, and is accountable for whether it is being done to standard.
You are assessed on whether a child needed less of you over time, and on whether the school team can now carry the strategies. Not on your utilisation.
Nobody's pay depends on recommending more, and recommendations above a set intensity go to a reviewer with no commercial role. Saying no is a normal professional act here.
We recruit continuously across all seven emirates. Send us your CV even when nothing below matches exactly — we keep applications on file and come back to them.
Shadow teachers and LSAs working in mainstream classrooms across the UAE, under clinical supervision.
Speech and language, occupational and behavioural practitioners delivering against written plans.
Subject and structured-literacy tutors working to the same goals as the rest of the plan.
Owning quality across a caseload, supervising practitioners and signing off plans.
The named person a family messages, and the one answerable when something isn't working.
Second-signature roles with no commercial exposure, checking recommendations before they reach a family.
Email your CV to hello@specialminds.ae with one paragraph about a child you supported and what changed. Not the hardest case — the one where you can point to what you did and why it worked.
We read everything and we reply, including when the answer is no. We are aware that is not the norm in this market.
Tell us about a time you recommended less support than you could have. Tell us about a placement you ended. Tell us about a family you sent somewhere else.
References, licensing and clearances before a first day rather than after it. Documentation goes to a school's office in advance, every time.
Fill hours, upsell a family, sit in a classroom without targets, or describe a child in a way you would not say in front of them.
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.