PERSPECTIVE article

Front. Public Health

Sec. Children and Health

Volume 13 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1566167

Challenges and Opportunities for Early Childhood Intervention Services in Singapore: Addressing User Satisfaction

Provisionally accepted
Soojin KimSoojin Kim1Xinwei ZhangXinwei Zhang1Sachi VilasSachi Vilas1Kenneth K PoonKenneth K Poon1Chui Mae WongChui Mae Wong2Mary Daniel LourdesMary Daniel Lourdes2Evelyn C LawEvelyn C Law3,4Elene LeeElene Lee2Victoria LeongVictoria Leong1*
  • 1Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
  • 2KK Women's and Children's Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
  • 3National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore
  • 4Institute for Human Development and Potential,, Singapore, Singapore

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a gap between primary stakeholders' ex ante expectations of adaptive early childhood intervention (ECI) services and their actual experiences with these services. This is despite governments' and service operators' swift pivot from on-site service delivery to home-based, virtual and hybrid modes, and cross-sector collaboration with private providers and pre-schools. In this article, we share our preliminary evidence from in-depth interviews with parents and clinicians regarding the perceived challenges to post-pandemic ECI services. We discuss how the crisis has triggered a paradigm change, especially regarding potential drivers for satisfactory services in the Singapore context.

Keywords: Early childhood intervention, Singapore, COVID-19, multistakeholder satisfaction, policy

Received: 24 Jan 2025; Accepted: 05 Jun 2025.

Copyright: © 2025 Kim, Zhang, Vilas, Poon, Wong, Lourdes, Law, Lee and Leong. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

* Correspondence: Victoria Leong, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 639798, Singapore

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