Fei Yue EIPIC centres: locations, fees and the real wait

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If you are reading this with a referral in your hand, the decision in front of you is which centre to name. The four are not interchangeable on the thing that will shape your week: how far you travel, several times a week, for years.

The four centres, and where they actually are

The centre names are the ones SG Enable’s directory uses. Fei Yue’s own EIPIC page writes them without the word Centre.

Every address and number above is Fei Yue’s own. It publishes them twice, on its EIPIC page and on its EIPIC centres page, and the two give the same block, unit and postcode for all four.

SG Enable’s Enabling Guide directory carries the same block, unit and postcode at three of the four, allowing for how each page writes the address. Jurong East is the one that differs, and it differs on the unit: the Enabling Guide listing says #01-188, where Fei Yue’s own two pages both say #01-170.

The table prints Fei Yue’s, because it is the operator’s own address for its own centre. Ring the centre before you make the trip.

Wellington Circle is the only one of the four names that does not tell you the estate. It is in Sembawang, and our directory of EIPIC centres sets it beside the other operators if you want to compare on distance first.

Fei Yue’s centres page also names a centre administrator at each of the four, if you would rather ask for someone by name than call a general line.

Who Fei Yue EIPIC takes

Fei Yue publishes four conditions, and they are the national EIPIC conditions rather than anything Fei Yue sets itself. Your child needs to be:

• from birth to six years old;
• a Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident;
• assessed by a paediatrician to be at risk of a developmental, intellectual, sensory or physical disability, or a combination of those; and
• not already enrolled in another ECDA-funded early intervention programme.

SG Enable adds a fifth: your child has to meet the specific programme’s own criteria, which it sets out in its Table 1. That table is where the under-twos and the two-and-above split comes from.

Read the third one again, because it is gentler than most families expect. Your child does not need a confirmed diagnosis. The test is a paediatrician’s assessment that your child is at risk.

The fourth condition is written differently in the two places it appears. Fei Yue’s page writes MSF-funded and names one example, DS-LS. SG Enable’s own EIPIC page writes ECDA-funded and names three: DS-LS, InSP and EIPIC-P.

Work from SG Enable’s longer list, because SG Enable is the body the application is submitted to and the body that refers you to a centre.

One date catches families late. SG Enable’s page says a child aged six or above can only be referred to EIPIC until 1 June each year, unless the Ministry of Education has approved a Primary 1 deferment. If your child is five and a half, that is the date to put in your calendar.

What you will pay

EIPIC fees are means-tested, and one national matrix covers all four Fei Yue centres. The figure that decides your tier is your household’s per capita income: your household’s total monthly income divided by the number of people living at the address.

Extended family registered at the same address count. A migrant domestic worker does not.

Those are Fei Yue’s own columns in SG Enable’s two EIPIC fee matrices, as of August 2026. They are the monthly fee after means-testing, not a price the subsidy then comes off. Fei Yue’s own page adds that the range excludes GST, so add that on top.

Four qualifications sit under the same table on SG Enable’s matrix, and they are worth reading before you budget:

• fees can still apply during centre closures;
• they can vary with how many hours a week your child is recommended;
• some centres add charges of their own;
• and the matrix itself gets revised.

The subsidy application is administered by the centre, so that paperwork goes through Fei Yue rather than through a separate portal you have to find.

The Singapore Citizen matrix’s front page carries one more line that is easy to miss: Baby Bonus may be used to offset EIPIC fees, for Singaporeans.

Why you may have seen S$5 rather than S$10

ECDA’s own EIPIC page gives the national out-of-pocket range for a Singapore Citizen child as S$5 to S$430 a month. Fei Yue’s bottom figure is S$10.

Both are right. The matrix sets the bottom tier operator by operator, and across the ten operators it lists, the lowest-tier fee for a Singapore Citizen child runs from S$2.10 to S$10.

So S$5 is a figure that exists in the system, not a figure every centre charges. At Fei Yue the bottom of the scale is S$10.

One word doing two jobs

Pin this down early, because both meanings will reach you in the same fortnight. SG Enable’s income tiers run 1 to 8 and decide what you pay.

Fei Yue also names four of its programmes Tier 1A, Tier 1B, Tier 2A and Tier 2B, and those describe what your child is taught. The two have nothing to do with each other.

How the referral actually works

You cannot apply to a centre directly. Fei Yue’s page and SG Enable’s describe the same route, and SG Enable’s is the one that carries the timings.

1. See a doctor at any polyclinic and ask for a referral for assessment at the Department of Child Development at KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, or the Child Development Unit at National University Hospital. A private paediatrician can do the same assessment and make the same recommendation.
2. The hospital or the paediatrician submits the application to SG Enable, with your consent. You do not file it yourself.
3. SG Enable contacts you within 10 working days of receiving the completed referral forms, with the information you need to choose a centre.
4. You name your preferred centre. Say Fei Yue, and say which of the four.
5. That centre contacts you within two weeks of the referral to arrange an interview and an assessment of your child.
6. Enrolment depends on a vacancy at that centre and on the centre management’s approval. A preference is not a place.

If you have read that new EIPIC-P referrals are paused, that is a different scheme, the subsidy for early intervention at ECDA-appointed private centres, and it does not affect a Fei Yue referral. The FAQ below has the detail.

Fei Yue’s own first move, once you reach it, is an initial screening. It runs inside an hour, with a team that can include a social worker, teachers and a therapist, and it looks at self-help skills, thinking skills, communication, social skills, and fine and gross motor skills. That screening decides which of its programmes fits your child.

Two documents follow, and it helps to know the names before someone hands you one. An Integrated Therapy and Education Plan (ITEP) holds the assessment notes and the goals set for your child. At the end of that plan period, an Integrated Therapy and Education Report (ITER) records what changed and how far your child got.

The wait, and what is not published

Fei Yue publishes no waiting time. Not for the operator, and not for any of the four centres. Neither its own EIPIC page nor its centres page carries one, and neither does any of the four Enabling Guide listings SG Enable holds for those centres.

What is published is a national average, and it has moved in the right direction. MSF told Parliament in July 2026 that the average wait for EIPIC enrolment improved from 7.5 months in 2023 to 5.5 months in 2025, and that the number of EIPIC places rose about 25 per cent over the same period, from roughly 5,800 to 7,300.

An average is not your wait, and MSF has said as much. Answering the same question in 2020, it said the waiting time “in part depends on parents’ preferences for specific providers or locations”. A popular branch in a convenient estate can run longer than the average that contains it, and Fei Yue does not publish that split.

So the honest answer is that you cannot look up a Fei Yue wait before you commit to preferring one. What you can do then is ask SG Enable what it can tell you about each centre, and hold more than one candidate.

There is one hard number in this area, and it is about travel rather than time. Opening the Upper Thomson centre in November 2023, MSF said 65 per cent of its students take a school bus arranged by Fei Yue and a transport company, which lets children from neighbouring estates and beyond attend.

At the same event the Minister of State urged parents to prioritise timely intervention and to be open to alternative centres and timeslots. Put those together and a centre further from home is a real option here, and the wait at the nearest one is what you are trading against.

A wait is not a verdict on your child, and it is not a mark against how fast you moved. It is capacity. What you can control is how many doors you keep open while it runs.

You are not left with nothing in the meantime. MSF says EIPIC operators support children and families from the point of referral, not only once a child is enrolled: caregiver training so you can work with your child at home, and, with your consent, sharing strategies with your child’s preschool teachers.

SG Enable worked with the caregiver-led group CaringSG to launch Step One, a programme for caregivers of children with developmental needs. If you are weighing paid help while you wait, our guide to private early intervention in Singapore puts the costs beside the subsidised ones.

What a week at Fei Yue looks like

Fei Yue publishes one set of session times for its EIPIC programme and does not break them down by centre. Sessions run Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. There are no lessons on Wednesdays.

• Session 1: 8.30am to 10.30am
• Session 2: 12.45pm to 2.45pm
• Session 3: 3.15pm to 5.15pm

The centres themselves open 8am to 5.30pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, 9am to 4pm on Wednesdays, and close at weekends.

The range of hours is set nationally, not by Fei Yue. SG Enable puts EIPIC@Centre, the programme for children aged two and above, at 5 to 12 hours a week, usually in small groups. For children under two, EIPIC Under-2s runs 2 to 4 hours a week and a parent or caregiver has to attend.

SG Enable’s page says a parent’s presence “may be required” in one place and “is required” in another, so plan for attending and ask the centre at the interview. Which programme your child is placed in is the centre’s call, and it comes out of the screening.

MSF set out how group sizes work in a 2020 answer to Parliament, and its point is that the ratio varies with each child’s needs. Support can be delivered one to one where a child’s needs are higher, and other children may sit in groups averaging six to eight. Typically each group is led by an early intervention teacher, with at least one other professional assisting.

The team across the four centres covers early intervention teachers, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, psychologists and social workers. Fei Yue describes its practice as family-centred and transdisciplinary, and says its team members talk frequently among themselves about each child and family. In plain terms, that is one team around your child rather than a diary of separate appointments.

Fei Yue names eight programmes, and the screening picks the fit: EIPIC@Home, a High Needs Grant programme of focused one-to-one support, First Steps for gross motor and adaptive skills, Tier 1A, Tier 1B, Tier 2A, Tier 2B, and DS-Plus for children who need only light support and are heading into a mainstream preschool. Our comparison of EIPIC, DS-Plus and DS-LS covers what a move between them means.

The teaching draws on three named approaches: Activity-Based Intervention, Structured Teaching, which Fei Yue writes as TEACCH, and Routine Based Intervention.

Fei Yue has been running EIPIC since 2007

Fei Yue Community Services opened its first EIPIC centre in Jurong East in 2007. Speaking at the Upper Thomson opening in November 2023, MSF called Fei Yue one of the ten social service agencies offering EIPIC, and said its four centres serve more than 600 children a year.

Half the network is recent. Bukit Batok and Upper Thomson both opened in 2023, and MSF said at the time that 290 EIPIC places had been added that year through two new centres, Fernvale Woods and Bukit Batok, the second of them Fei Yue’s.

If you are weighing Fei Yue against an operator that has been at this longer, that is the pair of facts to hold: the organisation has run early intervention since 2007, and two of its four buildings opened in 2023.

Sources

Fei Yue, SG Enable, ECDA and MSF pages accessed 10 September 2026.

• Fei Yue Community Services, Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children
• Fei Yue Community Services, EIPIC centres
• SG Enable, Enabling Guide, Early Intervention Programme for Infants & Children (EIPIC)
• SG Enable, EIPIC Fee Matrix for Singapore Citizens (PDF) and EIPIC Fee Matrix for Permanent Residents (PDF), both last updated 7 August 2026
• SG Enable, Enabling Guide, service listings for Fei Yue EIPIC Centre (Jurong East)), (Bukit Batok)), (Wellington Circle)) and (Upper Thomson)-)
• SG Enable, Enabling Guide, Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children – P (EIPIC-P), last updated 6 May 2026
• Early Childhood Development Agency, Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children (EIPIC))
• Ministry of Social and Family Development, Address by Ms Sun Xueling at the official opening of Fei Yue Upper Thomson EIPIC Centre, 25 November 2023
• Ministry of Social and Family Development, Changes to average wait time for EIPIC placements and interim support for families awaiting placement, published 7 July 2026
• Ministry of Social and Family Development, Average waiting time for children who are differently abled to be enrolled in the Early Intervention Programme, published 4 November 2020