THK EIPIC centres in Singapore: all six, with fees and waits

Dictionary: EIPIC · SG Enable · ECDA · DS-Plus

This is not THKMC’s own site and we are not connected to THKMC. The pages behind every figure on it are listed at the end, and linked.

The six centres, side by side

Addresses, hours and the centre phone numbers below come from THKMC’s own early intervention page, accessed 10 September 2026. The nearest station and the published wait come from SG Enable’s guide, last updated 10 September 2026. The rows are ordered by that published wait, shortest first, because it is the number that varies most across the six.

All six open Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm, and close on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. THKMC gives one email for all six centres, eipic@thkmc.org.sg.

SG Enable’s guide gives a separate address for each centre. Use the centre-specific one if you want that centre rather than the address all six share.

Two of the phone numbers do not match across the two sources, so check before you dial. For Choa Chu Kang, THKMC’s page gives 6762 9125 and SG Enable’s guide gives 6465 3019. The Enabling Guide’s own listing for that centre resolves it: it prints 6465 3019 against the early intervention programme and 6762 9125 against caregiver support, so the two numbers are two desks, not an error. For Woodlands the three sources give three numbers. THKMC prints 6362 2483 and 6362 6215, SG Enable’s guide prints 6362 5371, and the Enabling Guide listing prints 6362 5371 for the programme and 6367 8209 for caregiver support. Those do not reconcile, so if Woodlands is your centre, email first.

One more thing the table cannot show. THKMC’s own site has a directory page for each of the six centres, and as of 10 September 2026 all six of those links load the THKMC homepage instead of the centre. The page that actually carries the addresses is the THK Early Intervention for Children page, which is where every address above comes from.

The waits, and why they are so far apart

This is the hardest part of the page to read if you are already waiting.

SG Enable publishes an estimated wait time for every government-funded early intervention centre in Singapore, measured from the point of its own referral to the child’s enrolment. THKMC points parents at that same document rather than publishing its own figure. Its FAQ says the waiting period for its centres “is different for different centres”, and sends you to the guide for the estimate.

Here is what the guide gives for all six, as of 10 September 2026.

Read the spread rather than any one row. The gap between Toa Payoh and Woodlands is roughly a year, at the same operator, for the same programme.

It is worth knowing where THK’s centres sit against everyone else’s, because it changes what a long number means. SG Enable’s guide lists 28 government-funded centres in all, and the three longest estimates among them are all THK: Woodlands reaching 18 months, Pioneer and Tampines both reaching 15. No other operator’s centre reaches 15.

The same guide puts Toa Payoh near the other end. Only seven of the 28 publish a shorter top-of-range figure than its four months.

Three things stop those numbers being a verdict.

The guide is explicit that each figure “is as reported by centre and is subject to changes without prior notice”, and asks you to contact the centre directly for anything more. It is an operator’s own estimate of its own queue, not a measured average.

Each operator updates its figure from its centre’s current capacity, so a number is a snapshot of one centre’s queue on one day, not a fixed property of the centre.

And the wait is measured from SG Enable’s referral, not from the day you first worried. The assessment that produces the referral has its own timeline, which our guide to getting an autism diagnosis in Singapore covers.

If your nearest THK centre is one of the long ones, you have real options, and none of them is waiting quietly. Ask SG Enable about a centre with a shorter published wait, including centres run by other operators, which our page on every EIPIC centre in Singapore lists. The published figure is not today’s figure, so ask for the current one as well. Development Support-Plus is worth raising too, because it supports children with lower support needs inside their own preschool. And a paid place has a price, which our guide to private early intervention sets against the subsidised figures.

Wanting a shorter wait is not impatience, and taking a place at a centre that is not your first choice is not a compromise you have to justify to anyone.

Who the six centres take

THKMC describes its EIPIC centres as being for children with moderate to high support needs, and says the centres run intervention for 6 to 9 hours a week.

On age, THKMC’s own page says two things in two places. Its introduction says the centres provide early intervention “for children below the age of 7”. Further down the same page it says “for children aged 2 to 6 years”. Both are true of different parts of the same service, and SG Enable’s guide shows why: it records THK’s age range as birth to 6, then splits the programme into EIPIC Under 2s for children under 24 months and EIPIC @ Centre for ages 2 to 6.

So the plain version. If your child is 2 or older, the core centre programme is the one you are looking at. If your child is under 2, the Under 2s programme is a different shape, and it is described further down this page.

The eligibility rules themselves are national, not THK’s. ECDA, the Early Childhood Development Agency, sets them for every EIPIC centre, and its own page lists four. Your child is from birth to six years old. Your child is a Singapore Citizen or a Permanent Resident. Your child has been assessed by a paediatrician to be at risk of a developmental, intellectual, sensory or physical disability, or a combination of them. And your child is not already enrolled in another early intervention programme funded by the Ministry of Social and Family Development.

ECDA adds one line that decides the whole route: your child must be assessed and recommended by a medical professional to be suitable for EIPIC. There is no way to skip that step, at THK or anywhere else.

Our guide to EIPIC itself covers the programme in full. If you are not sure which support level your child has been pointed towards, our guide to the early intervention programmes compared sets them side by side.

What a THK place costs

THK reports its fees into SG Enable’s national fee matrix, against income tiers it does not set. SG Enable publishes one fee matrix for every government-funded operator, and THK has its own column in it, listed under all six centres by name.

What is unusual about that column is that THK is one of only two operators on the matrix that publish a range rather than a single fee at each income tier. AWWA is the other. So a THK figure is a band that your child’s recommended schedule lands inside, not a price.

Your tier is set by per capita income, which is your household’s total annual income divided by 12 months and then by the number of people in the household. SG Enable’s own worked example is S$8,000 a month across four people, giving S$2,000 per person. The household count includes extended family registered at the same address and excludes a migrant domestic worker.

Singapore Citizen children, monthly fee at a THK centre

Permanent Resident children, monthly fee at a THK centre

Figures as of August 2026, from SG Enable’s EIPIC fee matrices. Those documents carry three dates and it is worth knowing all three: the fee structure is printed “As of 1 April 2019”, the matrix is marked effective 22 January 2025, and the file itself was last updated 7 August 2026.

Four things about those tables change what a family actually pays.

The range is not a menu. The matrix says the fees shown are after means testing and as reported by the centres, and that they may vary with household income and the recommended programme frequency. A child attending three days a week is not the same fee as a child attending two. Ask the centre where in the range your child’s recommended schedule lands.

Which operator you get matters far more to a Permanent Resident family. At the top income tier the whole sector’s citizen fees sit between S$342 and S$430, a spread of under S$90. At the same tier a Permanent Resident family’s fees run from S$960 to S$1,270, a spread of more than S$300. THK’s top-tier range for a PR family is S$1,020 to S$1,200.

Goods and services tax is not uniform across the sector. The matrix’s remarks row marks GST as applicable at THK and at seven other operators, and not applicable at two, Metta Preschool and the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore. What the matrix never says is whether the figure printed against THK already includes the tax, so ask the centre.

There is no income at which a citizen child stops qualifying for a place. The top tier is everything above S$4,600 per person, with nothing above it, and the fee stops at S$430. Additional charges may apply at some centres, which the matrix says in its own notes.

Baby Bonus may be used to offset EIPIC fees, and the matrix says so on its cover. That applies to Singaporeans only.

How you actually get in

You do not apply to THK. Every place at every government-funded EIPIC centre is filled by referral from SG Enable, and THKMC’s FAQ says exactly that when asked whether a child can enrol without one.

The chain, in order:

1. Someone raises the concern. A polyclinic doctor, a preschool teacher, a paediatrician or you.
2. Your child is assessed. ECDA requires an assessment by a paediatrician, and a recommendation that EIPIC suits your child.
3. The referral goes to SG Enable. That is the route into every government-funded EIPIC place, whichever operator runs the centre.
4. SG Enable discusses centres with you. This is the conversation where the estimated wait, centre locations, transport and whether a caregiver has to attend all come up. It is also where you say which centres you would accept.
5. A centre offers a place, and the centre sets the schedule. SG Enable’s guide is plain that the intervention schedule is determined by the centre after its own assessment, based on suitable vacancies.

Step 4 is worth preparing for. You can name a THK centre, and you can name more than one. A referral to the operator nearest your flat is not automatic, and a centre two stations further out with a published wait six months shorter is a reasonable thing to ask for.

What a week at a THK centre looks like

The core programme runs at the centre, in one of two shapes that SG Enable’s guide prints for each of the six.

For five of the centres the guide gives 2 days of 3 hours, or 3 days of 2 hours. For Toa Payoh it gives 3 days of 3 hours, or 3 days of 2 hours. Sessions run Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday, in four slots. The three-hour slots are 8am to 11am and 3pm to 6pm; the two-hour slots are 11am to 1pm and 1pm to 3pm. Those shapes are what THKMC’s own 6 to 9 hours a week adds up to.

Staff to student ratio is published as 1:1 to 1:5, and it is the same figure across all six centres.

The team around a child is a wide one. THKMC names teachers working alongside occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, art therapists, music therapists, physical education teachers, psychologists, psychologist associates and social workers, with caregiver training and support alongside. Our guide to the main autism therapies explains what several of those do.

You may be expected to stay. SG Enable’s guide records caregiver presence at THK as encouraged in general, and compulsory for the Under 2s programme. That is a real scheduling constraint if both parents work, and it is worth raising before you accept a place rather than after.

Transport exists, but only to some addresses. All six centres are listed as offering transport services for selected areas only. The guide publishes a boundary for each: Central North and Northeast for Ang Mo Kio, North for Woodlands, Boon Lay and Jurong West for Pioneer, Northwest and West for Choa Chu Kang, East and Central East for Tampines, and Central and North East for Toa Payoh. Fees and exact boundaries come from the centre, not from the guide.

THKMC also describes what it wants the programme to feel like, and its philosophy is one line worth repeating: a child is a child first, then a child with developmental needs.

The three other THK programmes

The centre programme is not the only thing running at these six addresses.

EIPIC Under 2s is for children under 24 months. THKMC runs it for 2 to 4 hours a week at the centre, with home visits, and describes it as coaching the caregiver while the child receives intervention. SG Enable’s guide gives it as 1 to 3 days of 1 to 2 hours, with the day and timeslot set by the centre. This is the programme where a caregiver’s presence is compulsory.

Development Support-Plus is the step down in intensity, for children with lower support needs or children who have progressed at a THK centre and are moving on. THKMC runs it inside the child’s own preschool, working with the preschool teachers, at 2 to 4 hours a week over 3 to 6 months.

The Transition Programme prepares a child for school and for life after EIPIC. THKMC describes it as working with families and reaching into the community, rather than as classroom preparation alone.

Sources

THKMC’s own pages accessed 10 September 2026. SG Enable’s guide and fee matrices accessed 10 September 2026. ECDA’s EIPIC page and SG Enable’s EIPIC and DS-Plus FAQs accessed 2 September 2026.

• Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities, THK Early Intervention for Children (EIC)
• Thye Hua Kwan Moral Charities, THK Early Intervention for Children centre directory
• SG Enable, A Guide to the Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children (EIPIC) (PDF), last updated 10 September 2026
• SG Enable, EIPIC fee matrix, Singapore Citizen (PDF), last updated 7 August 2026
• SG Enable, EIPIC fee matrix, Permanent Resident (PDF), last updated 7 August 2026
• SG Enable, FAQs for the Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children and DS-Plus (PDF), last updated 1 September 2025
• Enabling Guide, service listings for THK EIPIC Centre @ Ang Mo Kio, Choa Chu Kang, Woodlands and Tampines
• Early Childhood Development Agency, Early Intervention Programme for Infants and Children (EIPIC)