Early intervention in the Philippines works best as a team, and Eduline brings the teaching part: patient, one-to-one sessions in small steps for children aged 2 to 6, at home or online. If you are worried about your child's development, start with a developmental paediatrician, whose assessment then shapes every session we plan.
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What is
One-to-one teaching for a young child who is taking longer than expected with early learning: attention, early language for learning, early literacy and numeracy, and the ordinary business of sitting with a task. It is educational support, delivered by tutors, and it runs alongside the therapists and clinicians who assess and diagnose.
Key Points
Short sessions in both cases, because this is demanding work for a small child
Almost always better at this age. The visit runs at least ninety minutes total, built from several short activities with breaks in between, each one timed to how long this particular child can actually hold attention, plus time for the tutor to walk the parent through what was done so it can be repeated during the week. A young child works best somewhere familiar with their own things around them, and the tutor reads the child directly, without a screen in between.
A two-year-old's attention holds for a face in the room far better than a screen, so an online session asks more of everyone involved. The tutor talks a parent through each activity, and the parent becomes the hands doing it. It suits a family who wants sessions to start this week, from any province.
Every role in its place, and the teaching done well
A young child's development is assessed by a developmental paediatrician, and every Eduline tutor keeps to that line. The tutor's notes describe what happened in sessions, in plain words a doctor can use.
Speech therapy, occupational therapy and behavioral therapy are separate regulated professions. The tutor works alongside them, on the teaching goals, and follows the plan the therapist has set.
Where no assessment has happened and a family is worried, the first appointment is a developmental paediatrician. We say that on day one, because a family that starts in the right place gets further, faster.
Where a therapist has already set goals, our sessions work toward them. Send the report ahead of time; it gets read before the first meeting.
Thirty minutes that end on a success does more than an hour that ends in exhaustion, and it protects a young child's willingness to come back. A young child warms to some adults faster than to others, so parents may request a different tutor whenever they wish, and the change is free.
A parent already sees the starting hourly number before writing in, since it is printed above this section. Once we know your child's age and whether the visit is at home or online, the final figure follows in an email, ahead of any time being held.
Four situations, each with its own first step
Something feels different and no professional has assessed anything yet. The first appointment is with a developmental paediatrician, because early assessment is what makes every later step, teaching included, aim at the right thing. Once the findings are in, the tutor builds the sessions on them.
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Focus Areas
A speech therapist, occupational therapist or developmental paediatrician is already involved and has made recommendations. We teach alongside that, working to the goals they have set. Send the report and we will read it.
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No diagnosis, no concern beyond the ordinary: just a child who needs more time and smaller steps than a classroom of twenty-five can give. This is straightforward teaching support and it is what most of this program actually is.
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Focus Areas
Already in school and not keeping up with the pace. Worth support, and also worth a conversation with the school about whether anything else should be looked at: the two are not alternatives and a family can do both.
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Ordinary teaching, delivered patiently and in very small steps
Everything below is teaching, delivered by a tutor. Where a child needs therapy, the tutor points the family to a licensed therapist and plans the sessions around that therapist's goals.
A young child stays with one small task until it is done, then moves to the next. Letters, numbers, and following an instruction all assume a child who can hold still in the chair a few minutes, so we build that first, in small steps.
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Hearing an instruction and acting on it, then two together, in order. A Kinder classroom runs on children managing this without repeating, and a child who cannot yet do it gets called naughty when the skill has simply not arrived.
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Sounds, letters and books, enjoyed every session. At this age the target is that reading is something a child wants to be near, and the technical part follows.
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Counting blocks, splitting raisins between two plates, working out who has more. At this age, a number means something only once it has been touched and moved, so counting stays in the hands before it reaches a worksheet.
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Where a therapist, a doctor or a school has set goals, our teaching serves those goals. Three adults pulling a young child in three directions helps nobody.
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Assessment, diagnosis, speech therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral therapy. Each has its own licensed profession, and connecting your family with the right one is part of the service.
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A four-year-old on a video call needs the adult beside them doing half the work: holding the card up, redirecting a wandering attention, repeating what the tutor said. That is why these calls stay short, and why they reach a family in any province this week.
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For a two through six year old, a familiar living room beats a screen almost every time: their own blocks, their own chair, a parent within arm's reach the whole session. Name your barangay, and we match the home tutor nearest you who has taught children this young.
Five families, and the first step that serves each child best
Clinicians involved, goals set, and a need for the teaching half to be consistent with all of it. This is where we fit best and where we do the most good.
Recommended:
No concern beyond the ordinary, just a child moving at their own pace and a classroom that cannot wait. Plain teaching support, and the largest part of what this program is.
Recommended:
Sometimes what is needed is an extra pair of eyes and plain language about what is being seen, so a parent can talk to the school with something concrete. We can report what we observe in sessions, carefully and without overstating it.
Recommended:
Start with a developmental paediatrician, because an assessment done early settles the question that months of tutoring cannot. Bring the findings back, and the teaching plan is written on them.
Recommended:
Speech, occupational and behavioral therapy each require a license and years of clinical training, and they belong with a licensed therapist. Where therapy is what your child needs, we point you there first, and the tutor then teaches in step with the therapist's plan.
Recommended:
Most of them are well-meant, and several were said to the family by somebody they trusted
Challenge
Root cause
It is the most common advice a worried parent receives, it is sometimes right, and nobody can tell which case they are in from the outside. The waiting costs nothing when it turns out fine and costs a great deal when it does not.
Eduline solution
Have it looked at by someone qualified to look. An assessment that finds nothing is a good outcome and not a wasted appointment.
Challenge
Root cause
Tutoring is easier to arrange, cheaper per hour, and feels like doing something. It also does not answer the question, and months pass.
Eduline solution
Do the assessment first. If teaching support is useful afterwards, it will be more useful for being aimed at something known.
Challenge
Root cause
An hour looks like better value than thirty minutes. For a four-year-old it usually means twenty good minutes and forty that teach them this is unpleasant.
Eduline solution
Stop while it is still going well. Short and frequent beats long and endured, at every age and especially at this one.
Challenge
Root cause
A therapist, a teacher and a tutor each working to their own goals produces a child pulled in three directions and no way to tell what is working.
Eduline solution
One set of goals, usually the clinician's, with everybody else teaching towards them. Send us the report and we will work to it.
Challenge
Root cause
Letters do not stick in a child who cannot yet sit through a short task. Push anyway, and the child learns that letters are a chore, which takes longer to undo than the delay would have cost.
Eduline solution
Work on the two minutes before the alphabet. A week where a child sits one extra minute looks like nothing on paper and is the actual foundation for everything after it.
Challenge
Root cause
It is irresistible, it is never informative, and it reliably makes a parent either complacent or frightened. Neither of those is a plan.
Eduline solution
Keep a short list of what the child could not do three months ago, and measure against that. A cousin is not a fair yardstick; a qualified assessment is built to be one.
Whether a child needs assessment is a paediatrician's question, and the paediatrician's office is where it gets answered. What a tutor brings is a clear record of what happens in sessions, ready for that appointment.
The rate covers one tutor working one-to-one with your child; it differs by whether the session happens at home or online, and, for home visits, whether the address is in Metro Manila or a provincial area.
From
₱400 / hour
| Home visit, Metro Manila | ₱550 / hour |
| Online | ₱400 / hour |
| Home visit, provincial areas | ₱400 / hour |
Per hour, one tutor with one learner. Home visits run at least 1.5 hours. Packages: 12 hours at 5% off, 24 hours at 10% off.
A home visit is priced at the higher end because it runs at least ninety minutes even though a young child's own active working time inside that visit is much shorter; the extra time goes to breaks, warm-up, and walking the parent through what to repeat during the week. This age usually does better with shorter, frequent contact than one long weekly session, so the 12-hour and 24-hour package rates above suit families booking across several weeks of regular visits.
Starting with the question that belongs to a paediatrician
Get Started
Pick the one that is closest to true today: nobody has looked yet, a therapist is already involved, your child just needs longer to get ready, or school already started and the gap is showing. Say which, and add the age. That is enough for someone to point you to the right first step, paediatrician or tutor, and to confirm your child's exact hourly figure against what is shown above when the tutor is the right start.