Positive thinking can be a pretty powerful in transforming your life, but not everyone is convinced. In many cases, people think it is modern day mystical mumbo-jumbo or associated with self-help scams.
Despite that, can positive thinking improve your life?
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Specific learning disability (SLD) is a disorder that can manifest itself in listening, speaking, reading, writing, and mathematical calculation. Dyslexia is an example of a specific learning disability. SLD is often difficult to diagnose and often gets mixed up with autism spectrum disorders or attention deficit disorders.
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You may have noticed that you’re the type of person people turn to when they need someone to talk to or are trying to sort through a difficult emotional period of their life. If everyone is turning to you, then whose shoulder do you lean on?
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Inspiration is the feeling of enthusiasm that makes you want to do something meaningful and creative. It’s a feeling that comes relatively often for some people while for others, it may come once in a blue moon. Regardless, everyone is inspired at some point.
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If you have ever tried to help loved ones experiencing prolonged, acute stress or someone trying to deal with a past traumatic experience, you may have noticed and realised that talking to them doesn’t seem to yield much success. These issues can so deeply affect people that verbalising them may be so difficult that it no longer becomes an option.
Children experiencing trauma are particularly vulnerable as they do not have the means to understand what is happening, how to process the trauma, and their ability to vocalise and communicate their trauma may be limited or non-existent. They are too young to have developed the coping mechanisms to deal with their trauma or stress. Read more
If you’re exploring a mid-career change and want to work with children, Early Intervention pathway might be for you.
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If you’ve been dwelling on wanting to do something new for some time now, it’s probably a good time to consider if it’s the right time for you to do something about it.
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Getting started, as they say, is one of the most difficult things anyone can do. Is there some magical thing that allows some people to get started more easily than others?
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As the year ends and the new year looms on the horizon, you may have been thinking about what you plan to do with yourself going into 2023.
If you are considering a career switch to doing something more meaningful with your career, or currently dealing with exceptional children, or have a calling to work with them, you will need to be specially trained! You will need to understand the different types of exceptional children and all their intellectual, emotional and physical disabilities.
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Previous studies have shown that parents recognise signs of autism far earlier in a child’s life than when it is actually diagnosed. Sometimes parents wait to see if the issue they are seeing goes away, or if it’s just a passing developmental phase. Read more
