Online Child Therapy for Glasgow, Built Around Scotland's System
Much of the advice British-Pakistani parents read about EHCPs and English councils simply does not apply in Glasgow, where Scotland runs its own health and school-support systems. From the south side in Pollokshields and Govanhill, families reach our Multan team online, in Urdu or English, for coaching that speaks to the Scottish route rather than the English one.
Our centre is in Multan, Pakistan — we don’t have a branch in Glasgow. For families in Glasgow we work entirely online, in English or Urdu, and we point you to your own country’s services too.
Glasgow is home to the largest Pakistani-heritage community in Scotland, long settled and strongly rooted on the city's south side in Pollokshields and Govanhill, where Urdu and Punjabi thread through the shops, mosques and everyday conversation. In many of these homes the language of the elders and the kitchen is not English at all.
What Glasgow parents often do not realise until they are in it is that Scotland runs a genuinely different system. Health here is NHS Scotland rather than the English NHS, and school support is not the EHCP route at all: Scotland works under Additional Support for Learning, with a Co-ordinated Support Plan for some children in place of an Education, Health and Care plan. Advice written for London or Birmingham simply does not map onto Glasgow.
We replace none of Scotland's services and would not claim to. Ours is online coaching from Multan, in the language a Glasgow home truly speaks, and with Multan running about five hours ahead an after-school call still falls inside our day. The formal diagnosis and any statutory support remain with NHS Scotland and your council, and we help you understand how the Scottish route works.
Working with families in Glasgow
The starting point is a relaxed video call about what you are seeing: a toddler slow to talk, a child in a Pollokshields or Govanhill school stumbling over sounds, behaviour the school has raised, or handwriting falling behind. Because so many Glasgow homes run Urdu, Punjabi and English together, we look carefully at whether a child is truly delayed or simply working out which language does which job, a distinction a single-language check can miss.
The team covers speech and language therapy, ABA-informed behaviour support, special education, child psychology and developmental screening, plus motor skills, handwriting and daily-living routines. Mahnoor Baloch, our founder and a speech and language therapist of more than five years, keeps the plan joined up so it works as one effort rather than a scatter of appointments.
Most of the work sits with you, because the practice that changes things happens in the ordinary Glasgow day, not in a screen twice a week. We build activities into meals, the school run and bedtime, and a free set of home tools we call Grow keeps things going between calls, with no journey across the city.
Scotland does not use the English rulebook
A good deal of what parents read online about getting help for a child, EHCPs, education-health-and-care needs assessments, English local-authority processes, does not apply in Glasgow at all. Here it is Additional Support for Learning that governs school support, with schools identifying and meeting needs, and a Co-ordinated Support Plan reserved for a smaller group of children whose needs cross more than one agency over the long term. Muddling the two systems wastes weeks and builds false expectations.
We keep this straight for you. The coaching we do with your child is the same wherever you live, but we are careful to describe the Scottish route in Scottish terms, so that when you approach your child's school or NHS Scotland you are asking for the right thing rather than something lifted from the English playbook.
Keeping Punjabi and Urdu alive under a Scottish roof
Some Glasgow parents are told, or quietly fear, that Urdu or Punjabi at home is confusing a child who is late to talk. It is not, and dropping the home language usually costs more than it gains, loosening a child's bond with grandparents and the community around Pollokshields and Govanhill.
So we coach you to give your child rich language in whichever tongue is most natural, and we weigh all of them together when we judge progress. A child fluent in Punjabi but behind in English is a very different picture from one behind in both, and that reading steers what we advise.
What we can do with your child online from Glasgow
What we help children with in Glasgow
Whether your child has a diagnosis or you’ve just started to worry, these are the areas we work with online. Tap any one to understand the signs and how we help.
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Getting started from Glasgow is simple
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Message us on WhatsApp
Tell us your child’s age and what’s worrying you — a short message is enough. We reply in English or Urdu.
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A free first consultation
We listen properly, ask a few questions, and give you an honest read on what your child needs — all over video. No pressure, no jargon.
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A clear plan you can act on
You leave with a plan: online sessions where they help, plus a home program you can start the same week.
Questions from families in Glasgow
Do you have a clinic in Glasgow?
No. The centre is one site in Multan, Pakistan, with no branch in Glasgow or anywhere in the UK. For local families everything is delivered online, by video, in Urdu or English.
Are you registered in the UK or with NHS Scotland?
No. We work online only and hold no UK licence or registration, so we cannot give an NHS Scotland diagnosis or arrange statutory school support. We are coaching and a second opinion in your own language, alongside Scotland's services rather than replacing them.
Is Glasgow's school-support system really different from England's?
Yes, and it matters. Scotland uses Additional Support for Learning, and for some children a Co-ordinated Support Plan, in place of the English EHCP. We describe the Scottish route in Scottish terms so you ask your school and NHS Scotland for the right thing.
Do you offer occupational therapy?
No. There is no licensed occupational therapist on the team, so occupational therapy is not something we provide. We can support motor skills, handwriting and daily-living routines within a plan, and point you to an NHS Scotland OT referral when your child needs one.
My child is on an NHS Scotland waiting list. Can we start now?
Yes, and many Glasgow families do. Beginning online means you are not losing months of early development while the queue moves, and when the NHS appointment comes we can carry on alongside it or hand over cleanly.
Can you give a formal autism diagnosis?
No. A formal diagnosis in Scotland comes through NHS Scotland or a UK-registered assessor, not through us. We can help you understand and prepare for the Scottish pathway, and we will say honestly when we think that step is right.
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Written by the Inclusive Developmental and Therapy Center therapy team · medically reviewed by Dr Muhammad Suffyan, MB BS (GMC 8023727) · Last reviewed July 2026
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