Child Therapy in Multan for Khanewal Families

Khanewal does have some special-needs provision. The district administration opened an Autism Care Center in Khanewal in 2023, and the Punjab Special Education Department runs government centres in the district, including one at Abdul Hakeem. What is harder to find locally is regular, one-to-one speech and behaviour therapy, which is why families travel to Multan.

We are not connected to either, and intake, ages and services change — so ask them directly rather than take our word for it. Government centres sit under the Special Education Department (sed.punjab.gov.pk) and can be the right home for a child who needs full-time special schooling. What we do is different: short, focused therapy sessions plus a plan you run at home. Plenty of families use both.

Khanewal is one of the closest districts to us. Families reach the same centre from much further out — Lodhran and Layyah are longer trips, and parents from Dera Ghazi Khan cross the Indus to get here — so an hour on the N-5 is, honestly, one of the easier journeys we plan around.

Both work from Khanewal. By road it is about an hour on the N-5, which suits families who want to control their own timings and bring a car seat, a buggy or a sibling along. By train from Khanewal Junction it is a short, direct run, which suits parents who would rather not drive and can travel light.

Whichever you choose, message us on WhatsApp before the first visit so we can hold a slot, tell you what to bring, and point you to the exact street: MPS Road, Block A Model Town, near Bloomfield Hall School, Street No. 2. No referral and no diagnosis is needed to start.

A typical month is four visits, not forty. You come in for a session, leave with two or three things to practise, do them in short bursts at home during the week, and check in between visits — a WhatsApp message for a quick question, or a video call when we need to watch your child do the thing that is not working.

That shape is deliberate. Daily attendance is not realistic from an hour away, so we make each visit count, keep the home program small enough that it actually gets done, and change it quickly when it stalls. If travel becomes impossible for a few weeks, say so and we will hold the plan together online until you are back. Tell us what your week looks like and we will build the schedule around it.

No. Growing up with more than one language does not cause a speech delay. When we count how many words a child has, we count them across every language together: a child with ten Saraiki words and eight Urdu ones has eighteen words, not eight. Dropping a home language usually costs a child more than it gains.

What we look at instead is whether your child understands more than they can say, whether they use pointing, gestures and eye contact to get a message across, and whether new words are still arriving month by month. If you would put it as mera bacha bolta nahi, that is exactly the right thing to bring us. A worry does not have to be phrased medically to be taken seriously.

So keep speaking the language you are most comfortable and most playful in. A parent who narrates the day, sings and jokes in Saraiki gives a child far more language than a parent switching to careful, stilted English. Our sessions run in Urdu and English, and nobody has to translate their worries twice.