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CAE helped put me on the path to success!

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CAE helped put me on the path to success!

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.

For a FREE COURSE PREVIEW

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When should a child gain an interest in reading?

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When should a child gain an interest in reading?
Along with speech and language, reading is one of the markers of progress and success that parents typically look for in their child’s development. The problem is that the ability to read can vary widely between children, with some being able to read as young as 4 years old, or as late as 7 years old. That is a long time to worry if your child hasn’t learned to read, and even if they can read, some children simply do not have any interest in reading.

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Speech Therapy can help your child in more than one way

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Speech Therapy can help your child in more than one way

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:

  1. More Independence:
    When a person suffers from communications disorders, they often do not have the ability to fully communicate their needs or feelings. They often have to rely on other people to interpret communications and guess on their behalf. Therapy can help in dealing with the issues causing the disorder, giving them the ability to independently communicate intent, desire and feelings.
  2. Better Socialisation:
    The ability to properly communicate with other people within society allows individuals to build connections to their community and other people, opening up a whole new world of activities and interactions that would have otherwise been closed off. This also allows individuals to find their place with their peers in society.
  3. Higher Self Esteem:
    When people feel they can’t do things by themselves, have little to no place within society and amongst their peers, their value in themselves drops considerably. Low self esteem in such situations can further isolate individuals from society, their family and even putting them on a self-destructive path. Increasing a person’s self esteem will give them confidence and self value, allowing them to go out into the world to experience it positively.

With speech therapy, you can help children in more ways than one.

Join us for our Professional Certificate in Speech Therapy Assistant programme.

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:

  • Improving the child’s ability to express their emotions and ideas.
  • Improving the child’s ability to communicate so people can understand them more clearly.
  • Improving the clarity and quality of their speech.

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.

Call 6533-0031 or register below for a free course preview.

Find out more about how you can help those in need regain their independence and improve the quality of their lives.

How do I include my special needs child in the holiday fun and cheers?

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How do I include my special needs child in the holiday fun and cheers?

It’s that time of the year again where everyone is starting to get into the festive end-of-the-year mood. Family, friends, adult, and kids will all be looking to join in the festivities and fun; but it’s this time can also be a difficult time for some children as they may not know how to fully participate and enjoy themselves.

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How do you stay happy in these difficult times?

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How do you stay happy in these difficult times?

It’s the end of the year again, and the holidays are rolling in. During this time, you’re meant to be celebrating, being cheerful and happy, and enjoying your life with friends and family. Is this realistic to expect this if the year ranged from “not so great a year” to “a terrible year”?

Bad things happen in any given year. It could be a pandemic like the one the world is going through now, or it could be a natural disaster, or it could be something much more personal. Maybe you lost a job or had a pay cut, or maybe your relationships took a negative turn, or your emotional and mental health went down hill and you’re struggling to stay motivated and positive.

It so happens that the end of the year is when people start to think about everything that’s happened thus far, and for many people, it simply doesn’t look or feel like a great year. Trying to figure out how to enjoy yourself may not be the first thing that crosses your mind and may not seem like the easiest thing to do; but there are ways to go pat the bad things, at least for a while.

Focus on your friends and family

If you take the effort to spend quality time with your friends and family, you may find that they can be a source of great comfort and support, even if they don’t do or say anything specific. Find out how their year was, and find out more about what they are going through. Share with them your life this past year, and how you’re processing and handling it. You may find out you are alone in these feelings, and in the process, you may end up being the support they need as well.

This is important, especially so as people end up feeling alone and falling into depression during this period. Taking the time for other people will not just help them, but it will help you feel connected with those close to you, make you feel like you have people who care about you, and will help them as they struggle to deal with their year. In this time, you can find some measure of happiness together, and in that, maybe some measure of your own happiness will start to reveal itself.

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.

For a FREE COURSE PREVIEW

CALL US at 6533-0031 EMAIL your enquiry to ENQUIRY@ICAE.EDU.SG

or Register for your free preview below:

How do I help children with speech disorders?

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How do I help children with speech disorders?

We often take our ability to communicate for granted because it’s relatively easy for most of us to talk to other people and express our needs, thoughts, and emotions. For children with communication and speech disorder, this isn’t obvious or easy. They might not just have a hard time with verbal communications, but can also have trouble understanding and processing nonverbal communications as well.

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