The Kids First SA team is made up of a group of highly experienced professionals. They are constantly learning from each other and believe that through collaborative practice and sharing knowledge, ideas and skills they will be able to offer schools and families a service that is truly integrated and most importantly, they hope, effective. The Kids First Centre in Pinelands, South Africa is a multidisciplinary centre offering Speech and Language Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Educational Psychology, Physiotherapy, Play Therapy, Dyslexia Support, Dietetics and a lot more! Their philosophy at Kids First is that a child’s best interests are at the heart of every decision. With this being the fabric of their Centre, they believe everything else will fall into place. At Kids First, they have a multidisciplinary team (MDT) using an interdisciplinary approach. This means that each professional brings a wealth of knowledge and experience, which they can all ‘tap’ in to in order to benefit their clients. At Kids First, they believe that a Team Around the Child (TAC) is key to effective intervention and support. This ‘Team’ includes family/friends, professionals and teachers/staff, all of whom play an important role in helping a child reach his/her full potential. When you come to Kids First for support, you can expect to be engaged in therapy, and they will up-skill you so that you feel confident to help your own child. You can also expect them to engage with your child’s teacher / key staff members so that they are aware of what they’re doing and can integrate strategies in a more natural context. They believe that listening to and working with parents helps facilitate progress. Therefore, when your child enters Kids First, they will want to support you to understand how you can help your child at home. They provide you with simple and fun activities to incorporate into your daily routines. All interventions and approaches adopted by Kids First will be research and evidenced-based, a founding principle of their UK Company Words First Ltd. There are many ‘interventions’ out there that claim to do miraculous things for children, but many of these are not based on scientific research and lack the evidence to substantiate the claims. Their role is to sift through the wealth of information out there and to select interventions that are well researched with excellent evidence bases. To do this, they tap into the expertise of many international approaches and rely on the interventions they know work in the UK. Their only goal is to support your child to reach his / her potential. Many children do not require ongoing therapy for years – after accurate identification of the underlying cause, they may just require a shorter burst of intervention. At the Kids First Centre SA, they use a range of standardized and informal assessments and observations to unpick your child’s strengths and weaknesses. They believe that the assessment phase is vital in helping them to understand your child’s unique profile and guide their intervention. Through a detailed assessment, their therapists can deliver deficit-sensitive therapy (that means, therapy that matches the underlying cause of the difficulties.