Children with special needs are often misunderstood and overlooked when they really need the most attention and help. It’s not just attention and help; they need people who understand their special requirements and needs so that the help they receive will give them the best chance to be successful.
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Every year, people all over the world take a look at themselves to try to address something they’ve been lacking or wish to accomplish . This could be a goal to achieve better health, lose weight, learning to be more patient, earning more money, getting a promotion, or just trying to be more successful overall.
Chances are you have entertained these ideas, but have you ever thought if you’re doing this for yourself?
These might not even be your own goals and desires, but adopted from someone else. Perhaps from your peers or to please someone else.
When you attempt to lose weight, is this because you want to be more healthy, look better, and feel better; or is it because you want to please your peers and are seeking their approval?
These might seem like unimportant distinctions at first glance, but over the long term, it actually can affect your overall happiness quite a bit because you’re trying to live for someone else. These are other people’s desires, wants, and needs.
When you strive for success in your career, it’s a lot of effort and may take a lot out of you emotionally and mentally. If you end up chasing a definition of success that isn’t true to yourself, and isn’t what you truly envision and desire, any sense of true achievement and accomplishment may ultimately end up feeling quite hollow and meaningless.
Saying that, determining what you really want isn’t always easy. Your dreams and desires often are influenced in some way by external forces. Sometimes it is influences by your upbringing, your surroundings, your experiences, or from your peers. Even then, you still need to be able to identify the core of what it is that is what you want.
What you are really trying to do is figure out who you really are as a person, because that can help you determine what it is you want for yourself and what you want from your life.
Getting to this point may require quite a bit of introspection. In your busy life, these moments may be few and far between, and like a lot of people, you’ve probably ignored it for too long because it is inconvenient, or because you’re too tired. In many cases, you probably aren’t even sure where to start, so every time you try, your mind and effort wanders and you lose focus.
You should give yourself this time and effort. It is your life, your dreams, your happiness that is at stake. Don’t live for other people; find a way to live for yourself. Your happiness will help you and everyone around you.
Join us at College of Allied Educators to learn more about yourself, what motivates you, and how you can find happiness, meaning, and success in work, love, and life.
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY
Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology (PGDICP) is a counselling psychology course accredited by the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC). The part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology programme focuses on developing and enhancing experiential knowledge and skills through a holistic approach. Some of the subjects covered include Counselling Children, Addiction Intervention, Crisis Intervention, and Family Therapy.
DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY
Diploma in Counselling Psychology (DCPSY) is a counselling course covering a range of conceptual and functional skills in counselling. It trains students to apply appropriate counselling psychology skills in different situations, and equips students with the ability to work effectively as a counsellor.
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A common concern among parents and care takers of young children is that their child may need help in some way. Maybe it is due to a significant trauma experienced by the child, looming family crisis, or other stressors that have overwhelmed the child. Considering counselling and therapy for the child is always a big consideration; one that is often fraught with fear, and possibly even shame. Read more
If you’re looking to start your career in the special education industry, or may be exploring a mid-career change and want to work with children, Early Intervention pathway might be for you!
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Admitting that you’re a failure is something that is very difficult to do. Nobody wants to admit it, even if they believe they are. Failure is, for many people, something very close to being immoral. That’s how it was for me.
There was a time when I would never have admitted I was a failure, and yet that was how I felt about myself. I felt that I couldn’t do anything right. I wasn’t very good in school. I’m mediocre at my work. My relationships stagnated, floundered, or went out of my control. I wasn’t very good at my hobbies either.
All of these things constantly made me feel like I should crawl under a rock and just hide. It just didn’t feel good that I always felt this way about myself and my life. Incidentally it was this feeling that eventually got me interested in learning about other people, how they think, and why they feel the way they do. I ended up deciding to take a course in Counselling Psychology from College of Allied Educators.
I went in expecting to learn about how other people thought and felt, but was surprised by what it did for me, personally. I wasn’t just learning about other people; I was learning about myself. I learned that self reflection was an important component in trying to understand yourself and CAE’s lecturers taught me the different methods and tools to help people reach this state of introspection; which I applied to myself.
When I applied the tools to my own self, I unknowingly started addressing my own feelings of inadequacy and failures. I then started reframing the way I thought about my situation. In time, I realised that I wasn’t failing; I just had setbacks; temporary situations that I could overcome eventually. This was a powerful realisation that got me thinking about other issues I had about myself. Slowly but surely, I inadvertently learned how to see my own success, instead of my failures.
I am thankful for CAE’s lecturers, who brought to us real life cases and real world issues people face on a daily basis. It gave me something I could relate to, and really helped push me to learn more about myself as well. CAE’s counselling psychology programmes are incredibly useful and powerful, and can be completed in a short amount of time.
I am now a little more hopeful about myself and my own future as I can see the potential ahead of me.
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Join us at College of Allied Educators to learn more about yourself, what motivates you, and how you can find happiness, meaning, and success in work, love, and life.
POSTGRADUATE DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY
Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology (PGDICP) is a counselling psychology course accredited by the Singapore Association for Counselling (SAC). The part-time Postgraduate Diploma in Counselling Psychology programme focuses on developing and enhancing experiential knowledge and skills through a holistic approach. Some of the subjects covered include Counselling Children, Addiction Intervention, Crisis Intervention, and Family Therapy.
DIPLOMA IN COUNSELLING PSYCHOLOGY
Diploma in Counselling Psychology (DCPSY) is a counselling course covering a range of conceptual and functional skills in counselling. It trains students to apply appropriate counselling psychology skills in different situations, and equips students with the ability to work effectively as a counsellor.
CALL US at 6533-0031 EMAIL your enquiry to ENQUIRY@ICAE.EDU.SG
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Figuring out if a child has a learning disorder isn’t always easy or straightforward. Children develop at different rates and paces. Some pick up reading and writing very early, while others may learn to talk earlier than others. Read more
Before I joined CAE’s counselling psychology programme, I was at a point in my life where I was unsure of what I was doing, even though I had already spent years doing it. I felt unfulfilled, but at the same time felt I was maybe too old to do anything about it.
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I was working a pretty standard office job. You could say I was successful at my career, or at least, I was doing well. From a career and job point of view, there was really nothing wrong; except, I found myself increasingly questioning what I was doing with my life.
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Children who suffer from communications disorders suffer emotional and social effects that may be a huge quality of life issue for them. They may sometimes face isolation as they may have a difficult time finding peers they can get along with. This is due to the child’s inability to communicate at the same level as their peers. This can cause misunderstanding and frustration on all sides. Speech and communications difficulties are also not something that can be medicated. It must be corrected through speech therapy.
Speech therapy is used to help improve your child or your students’ ability to communicate. Spoken communications is incredibly important to the development of the child, allowing them to express their emotions, needs, and thoughts.
There are other benefits of speech therapy:
With speech therapy, you can help children in more ways than one.
CAE’s Professional Certificate in Speech Therapy Assistant programme will teach you the tools to assist in the assessment, screening and treatment of communication and speech disorders to help affected children and adults gain their independence and improve the quality of their lives.
Speech therapy helps in correcting for:
This helps to boost overall confidence, and ensures the child is able to function independently and learning critical social skills from their friends. The ability to communicate opens up a world of new possibilities for children and breaks their isolation from their peer and society.
Find out more about how you can help those in need regain their independence and improve the quality of their lives.
