School Readiness Program in Multan
School uses sitting, waiting, following an instruction and asking for help from day one. Letters are taught at school. This programme practises the skills that actually spoil the first term when they are missing.
Written by the Inclusive Developmental and Therapy Center therapy team · medically reviewed by Dr Muhammad Suffyan, MB BS (GMC 8023727) · Last reviewed September 2026
About School Readiness
The school-readiness programme at Inclusive Developmental and Therapy Center in Model Town, Multan practises the skills school actually uses on day one: sitting, following an instruction, asking for help, a goodbye that ends — then pre-reading, pencil control and a short group sit. Letters are taught at school. They are not a trophy. Contact owner Muhammad Salman Afzal first; faculty includes Mahnoor Baloch. School-readiness hours are delivered by psychologist Akasha Tariq under that plan. A consultation is Rs 1,500 and lasts up to 50 minutes.
Parents usually say he knows ABC but cannot sit, she cries at the door, the teacher says he does not listen. Tick the checklist over a week of ordinary days. How Mahnoor frames readiness (Beaconhouse Early Years, sitting before letters) is here. The longer parent guide is school readiness.
This is a listed programme on our flyer because families ask for it by name. It is not a ninth kind of medicine. It sits next to special education and, for autistic children, autism support.
Who this is for
- Children heading toward nursery or school who cannot yet sit, wait or follow a two-step instruction
- Autistic children whose classroom day is the battle
- ADHD, when sitting and finishing a short task are the gap
- Children who know letters but cannot last a group sit
- Down syndrome and developmental delay, at this child’s pace
- Parents unsure whether to delay school a year
What the programme actually holds
A short group sit. A two-step instruction. Sitting tolerance. Task completion. Pre-reading and letter-sound work when the child is ready — not as a performance. Pencil control and pre-writing. Number recognition and counting when those are the next step. Asking for help. A goodbye that ends.
Clancy Blair and colleagues treat school readiness as executive function — holding a rule, waiting, switching — more than as alphabet knowledge. A child who can recite ABC and cannot last a circle has the trophy and not the job. We teach the job.
Who does the hours
Contact owner Muhammad Salman Afzal first. The plan is written after that consultation. Akasha delivers school-readiness psychology: individual goals, structured activities, prompting then fading, task analysis. Speech questions stay with Mahnoor. Feelings and family work sit with Salman. A teacher can act on a one-page list — the letter to school.
What is not readiness
Reciting the alphabet. Writing their name as a party trick. Sitting still because they are scared. Readiness is whether Monday morning is survivable. Delay a year only if sitting, waiting and language are the gap and a year of the right practice would change them — that is a judgement after assessment, not a rule.
What to tick at home this week
Breakfast, the bag, the door. Not a mini-school at the dining table. Use the checklist over a week of ordinary days, not the best afternoon. The parent guide is school readiness. Coaching can watch the goodbye: parent coaching. Cluster: at home.
Pre-reading at home is sounds in play, a story sit, pencil control if the hand is ready. That is Akasha on literacy — not a crash course in the alphabet.
Once school has a door
Classroom readiness is a group sit, instructions in pieces, and a one-page list a Pakistani teacher can try for ten days. Not a Western IEP copied onto a page. Ask: seat facing the teacher; instructions in pieces; a warning before a change. Pages: letter to school, classroom support, IEPs with Mahnoor, classroom cluster.
If the school will not try anything, a dated one-page trial is still worth writing. A smaller setting is sometimes kinder this year — mainstream or special.
How this programme works, in more depth
Each of these pages is one slice of the work — a session, who it is for, or what to try at home — linked back to this service.
What a session actually looks like
- 1You tell us what the school or the next classroom will actually demand.
- 2We pick two skills from the checklist that failed on ordinary days.
- 3Practise in a short sit, with a prompt that we then fade.
- 4You leave with one home routine (breakfast, the bag, the door) and, if school has started, a sentence for the teacher.
Take a worksheet home
Print one sheet. Fill it in this week. Bring it to the consultation — a consultation is Rs 1,500 and lasts up to 50 minutes.
School-readiness checklist
Sitting, waiting, a two-step instruction — tick ordinary days, not the best afternoon.
Alphabet cards
Letter and sound together. Not a trophy recitation.
Home practice log
One skill, a few minutes, one line of what happened. Bring it next time.
Book a consultation
Contact owner Muhammad Salman Afzal first. No referral needed. A consultation is Rs 1,500 and lasts up to 50 minutes.
The idea behind the work (in the books)
Readiness is sitting, waiting and a two-step instruction — executive function — not a trophy alphabet. These books are why the programme is built that way.
Blair and Raver — school readiness as executive function
Clancy Blair treats the skills that predict classroom success as holding a rule in mind, waiting, and switching when the rule changes — not as reciting letters. That is why we tick sitting and a two-step instruction before we drill ABC.
Vygotsky — zone of proximal development
Lev Vygotsky’s ZPD is the band of work a child can do with a prompt and cannot yet do alone. We set the sit, the instruction and the goodbye inside that band, then fade the prompt. A worksheet they already fail in a class of thirty is not a ZPD.
HighScope — plan, do, review
The HighScope preschool model asks a child to plan a short job, do it, then say what happened. We borrow the shape for a three-minute sit: choose, finish, stop. We are not a HighScope setting.
Piaget — play before paper
Jean Piaget put active play before paper-and-pencil representation. A child who cannot last a floor game will not last a copy-from-the-board lesson. Play is the assessment, not a warm-up we skip.
What the research tells us
This isn’t just our opinion — it’s grounded in published research. Here are a few findings from trusted, independent sources:
Blair and Raver (Annual Review of Psychology, 2015, and related work) summarise school readiness as emerging self-regulation and executive function — attention, working memory, inhibitory control — built in early caregiving and preschool environments. Alphabet knowledge without those skills does not carry a Monday morning. That is the case for sitting and waiting as the first goals.
— Blair and Raver, school readiness and self-regulation reviews (2012–2015). View sourceNICE CG170 recommends play-based social-communication strategies adjusted to developmental level, with teacher mediation for school-aged children. A one-page list a Pakistani teacher can try for ten days is that mediation. A twelve-page Western IEP that sits in a drawer is not.
— NICE Clinical Guideline CG170 — Autism spectrum disorder in under 19s: support and management. View source
Other ways we can help
Speech Therapy
Help for late talkers, unclear speech, stammering and language delay, through play your child enjoys.
Motor & Daily Skills
Motor, handwriting and self-care skills, built up through purposeful play.
ABA Therapy
ABA and positive-behaviour support for autism, ADHD and hard-to-manage behaviour.
School Readiness: your questions answered
They know the alphabet. Isn’t that ready?
Letters are taught at school. Sitting, waiting and asking for help are used from day one. Tick the checklist over a week of ordinary days.
Does Akasha lead the first assessment?
No. Contact owner Muhammad Salman Afzal first. Akasha delivers school-readiness hours as faculty under that plan. How she works: Akasha on school readiness.
Should we delay school a year?
Sometimes, if sitting, waiting and language are the gap. Sometimes starting with support is kinder. That is a judgement after we have seen your child.
They know letters but cannot last the group.
Then letters are not the gap. Sitting is. See sitting and waiting and Akasha on classroom skills.
Who do I book — Mahnoor or Akasha?
Book a consultation. Contact the owner first. School-readiness hours follow that plan with Akasha. You do not have to choose the door yourself.
Will you teach them to read before school?
We will teach sitting, a story sit, and letter-sounds when the child is ready. We will not run a crash course whose only goal is reading the alphabet at the admission interview. Pre-reading sits with Akasha on literacy.
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