Mission
The unit will provide early diagnostic services and comprehensive rehabilitative programs for special needs children and give appropriate awareness and training for the local Omani cadre. The team will also correlate a partnership with parents to establish the utmost independency for these children.

Services:

1. Perform tests and measurements for children to identify their strengths and weaknesses to acquire formal and comprehensive assessment of their abilities.

2. Provide appropriate rehabilitative programs for special needs children.

3. Provide the necessary consultation to parents.

4. Refer children to various medical specialists as and when needed.

5. Provide training for local Omani cadre to improve their paraprofessional skills and prepare them for future responsibilities in taking charge of running this unit.

6. Help in conducting research and studies related to the field to improve public awareness  and attain more information on disability in the country.

The Specialized Team:

• A Physiotherapist
  An Occupational Therapist
  A Speech pathologist
  A Psychologist

It is planned that the assessment unit will provide the following important screening tests

1. Physiological and motor measures and therapy:
   Physiotherapy is a paramedical profession, which provides therapeutic services by a qualified physiotherapist; this includes examination and assessment of patients, or persons who complain from impairment, disability, or limitation of their physical functions. Physiotherapy is mainly based on hand therapy, therapeutic exercises and the use of various physical means like water; heat, cold, electrical current. It also, includes consultation, teaching training and doing researches.
    
2. Speech and linguistic abilities measurements and therapies:
   Speech therapy is a service provided by a health care professional that helps a person improve his or her ability to communicate. This includes both speech, which is how sounds are made, and language, which involves understanding and choosing the correct words to use. There are four kinds of problems that a speech pathologist can treat; speech, language, cognition or thinking skills and swallowing.
    
3. Occupational therapy and functional skills
   Occupational therapy is the use of purposeful activity or interventions designed to achieve functional outcomes which promote health, prevent injury or disability, and which develop, improve, sustain or restore the highest possible level of independence of any individual who has an injury, illness, cognitive impairment, psychosocial dysfunction, mental illness, developmental or learning disability, physical disability, or other disorder or condition. It includes assessment by means of skilled observation or evaluation through the administration and interpretation of standardized or non-standardized tests and measurements
    
4. Cognitive and developmental assessment of children
   The practice of psychology involves the application of principles, methods and procedures of understanding, predicting and influencing behaviour, such as the principles pertaining to learning, perception, motivation, thinking, emotions and interpersonal relationships. The psychologist utilizes methods and procedures of interviewing and counselling of children.

Sensorial Room