The centre, due to open in September, will be based at Gibson Primary School in Omagh, and will provide therapy and education for 20 pre-school children with speech and language impairments.
It will also offer outreach services to other schools in the area. The school already has a speech and language unit for primary school children.
The news follows a joint proposal put together by Northern Ireland's Western Education and Library Board and the Western Health and Social Services Board.
It will be run by speech and language charity I-Can, which has been charged with establishing specialist early intervention services in the area covered by the boards.
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