How choosing actually works
After the paediatrician’s referral, SG Enable contacts you within 10 working days with programme and centre options; your selected centre then contacts you within two weeks to arrange an interview and assessment. Vacancy decides the rest — so it’s worth holding two or three candidate centres, not one.
Our own advice, from having done it: start with distance (these are multiple sessions a week, for years), then compare what actually matters inside the building — the next section’s questions.
The operators and their centres
The list below is verified against each operator’s own site as of July 2026 — but centres open and move, so treat any list (including ours) as a starting point and confirm with SG Enable. Operator names link to their official pages (they open in a new tab).
Autism-specialised
| Centre | Operator | Where |
|---|---|---|
| WeCAN Early Intervention Programme | Autism Resource Centre | Ang Mo Kio (Pathlight campus vicinity) |
| Eden Children’s Centre | Autism Association (Singapore) | See official site for current locations |
These two operators are autism organisations first — ARC (the Pathlight School family) and the Autism Association. Autism-specialised centres also draw on teachers trained through ARC’s autism certification pathway. If your child’s referral is autism-related, ask SG Enable specifically about these.
The island-wide networks
Single-centre operators and specialists
| Centre | Operator | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| EIPIC @ Metta Preschool (Simei) | Metta Welfare Association | Ages 2½–6; 6 hours of intervention a week; serves global developmental delay with or without autism |
| CPAS EIPIC | Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore | Strength in physical and multiple disabilities alongside developmental needs |
| Canossian EIPIC | Canossaville | Hearing loss specialist — Singapore’s only EIPIC for children with hearing loss; not an autism centre |
What to ask a centre (that no list tells you)
From our own EIPIC chapter with our daughter:
- How do you handle separation? Our daughter’s centre phased us out deliberately — first days in the classroom, then outside it, then outside the compound. For an autistic child, being apart from you is often the first mountain; a centre with a staged plan for it is showing you its craft.
- What does the room offer? The sensory play — food, materials, paint — and the equipment our daughter loved were things no brochure mentioned. Ask to see the space your child would actually spend afternoons in.
- What’s the session model? The official range is 5–12 hours a week, but models vary by centre — ours ran daily afternoon sessions. Ask for the actual weekly shape before you plan work and preschool around it.
- How do teachers work with parents? The best thing we got from EIPIC was two-way: teachers testing what worked and comparing notes with us. Ask how (and how often) they’ll talk to you.
- And visit. Websites go stale — this page will too, eventually. The building, the staff, and your child’s reaction to the room are the real data.
Common questions
Can I choose which EIPIC centre my child goes to?
You state a preference — SG Enable shares the options after the referral and refers to your preferred centre, with enrolment subject to vacancy. It’s a preference, not a guarantee, so hold more than one candidate.
Which EIPIC centres specialise in autism?
ARC’s WeCAN programme and the Autism Association’s Eden Children’s Centre are run by autism organisations, and autism-specialised centres draw on ARC-trained teachers. Most other centres serve autistic children too, alongside other developmental needs — Canossian EIPIC is the exception (hearing loss).
Do fees differ between centres?
Government-funded EIPIC fees follow one national means-tested framework, whichever centre you attend ($5–430 a month for Singapore Citizen children, as of July 2026). The exception is EIPIC-P, the private-centre variant, where fees vary by operator — and new EIPIC-P referrals are paused until Q4 2026.
What if my preferred centre is full?
Ask SG Enable about alternatives with vacancies, and about waitlisting for your preferred centre. Our own experience says treat waitlists as part of the process, not a verdict — lists move.
Is this the complete list?
It covers all ten government-funded EIPIC operators as verified in July 2026. Centres open and move, so confirm current options with SG Enable when you’re referred — and tell us if you spot a change, so this page stays honest.
Sources
- Operator official pages, each accessed July 2026: THK EIC — thkmc.org.sg; Fei Yue EIPIC — fycs.org; AWWA EIC — awwa.org.sg; SPD — spd.org.sg; Rainbow Centre — rainbowcentre.org.sg; ARC — autism.org.sg; Autism Association — autismlinks.org.sg; Metta — metta.org.sg; CPAS — cpas.org.sg; Canossaville — canossaville.org.sg
- SG Enable Enabling Guide — EIPIC (referral flow and timelines) — enablingguide.sg
- ECDA — EIPIC (fees framework, eligibility) — ecda.gov.sg