Senses Centre Dubai

As a team, we offer professional services within the daycare centre, which includes physical, occupational, speech and sensory integration therapies, which are all vital to the comfort and progression of the child's development. The centre also focuses heavily on special education, art, games and outdoor activities.

The children's happiness is paramount and seeing the smiles on their faces keeps our spirits high and encourages us to continue creating an extraordinary and special world that celebrates the life of our precious children.

The Senses Care Home project was founded by Emirati Nadia Khalil Al Sayegh, who has over 20 years experience in the department of Labour and Social Affairs, concentrating on Special Needs children in Dubai.

The centre is set in a purpose built centre in Umm suqeim, which was built under the order of HH Shk Mohammed, bin Rashid, al Maktoum, Prime Minister and Vice President of the U.A.E. and ruler of Dubai. Without his support, the dream of helping children in need would not have been possible.

Our objective is to be established as a non-profit organisation, providing support to our community. While we have a purpose built facility, we still have a need to charge fees to cover overheads, staff training, salaries, utilities, and medical expenses. To assist with this, the centre is dependant on support of all kinds including personal, financial, goods and services.

At Senses we take children and young adults with severe physical and learning difficulties. Many of our children suffer from epilepsy and are in need of 24 hours nursing care. We care for children from the age of 2 to 20 years.

Our residential centre has been created to be a home away from home for our students.
We offer a range of opportunities for our children to fulfil educational interests and participate in new life-enriching pastimes, experience sensory stimulations and build self-esteem, increase independence and explore future life opportunities.

The Senses Centre is considered the first centre which has acquired specialist equipment for developing cognitive and sensory skills. Educational blocks and Smart Boards are used to develop attention, memory, skills of reading, math and expression and proper pronunciation.

The Senses Centre is considered the first centre which has acquired this type of advanced equipment, specifically developed for these groups.

Senses Centre have seven classes, which now offer educational academic programmes, in which individual educational plans are applied. These include all development areas such as large and fine motor, cognitive/perception, receptive and expressive language, social, emotional, behavioural, independent skills and self reliance, the skills of reading and writing.

An early years intervention section has recently been established to cater for the age 3 to 5 years and commissioned to design a programme and a work plan for a specialist team which includes occupational and sensory treatment, physiotherapy, pronunciation treatment, motor training and rehabilitation. The families of children enrolled in this section have been given a unique opportunity in integration and training to link the individual educational training plan with individual treatment plans, which provides them with a unique rehabilitative home plan.

A vocational training section has been developed which focuses on training both male and female students of 14 years and above. Here they learn a large range of handicrafts, trades and artefacts. They enjoy printing on cloth, binding, painting on pottery and cups, engraving and decorating on glass and wood, simple jewellery making and photography. The product are exhibited or sold and the proceeds go toward funding continual development of the unit.

The assessment procedures program enables Senses Centre to give results on medical, educational, developmental, visual, oral and psychological and follow up diagnosis.

The occupational and sensory therapy section focuses on the development of fine motor and sensory skills. This section is equipped with modern and advanced devices such as the multi purpose body balance devise, which is now benefiting children who suffer from sensory collaboration problems.

The physiotherapy department has been developed and with specialist equipment, focuses on children with physical disability such as cerebral palsy, scoliosis, cerebral oedema, cord muscle and muscle weakness.