Dyspraxia is a neurological condition that affects a child’s physical coordination and movement. It’s also known as Developmental Coordination Disorder. Here are 5 signs of Dyspraxia: Read more
5 Signs of Dyspraxia
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Make your resolution a success
Especially during the new year, we make lofty resolutions about how we want to improve ourselves personally or professionally; believing in our own eventual success. Statistically speaking though, a New Year’s resolution will last about a month. This says that failure is quite likely, and the result of failure for most people will be giving up, and going back to the routine that they wanted to change in the first place. Read more
Will your New Year’s resolution be a success or failure?
New Year’s resolutions are here! With them comes the effort to achieve the resolution. However, within a month people give up and go back to the same old habits. There are many reasons why that is, but there are also many things that can be done to increase the odds that anyone can make their resolutions stick, and make changes for the better. Read more
5 Ways play benefits children
Here’s why you should let children play and why you should consider play as part of a powerful toolkit for the full development of children and is as applicable to children with special learning needs. Read more
What is Play Therapy?
Play Therapy is a form of psychotherapy and counselling that uses play in a non-directed method to allow the Child to lead therapy sessions. This process reveals and reflect the child’s behaviour back in such a way that the child can confront their own behaviour, giving the therapist a powerful diagnostic tool to determine the cause for any issues. Read more
Help your special needs child enjoy the holiday!
The holidays may be a very rough, chaotic time for children with special needs. There are a lot of non-routine activities happening all around them all at once, with familiar and unfamiliar friends and families showing up. For many children with special needs, this can be excess stimuli. Read more
3 Benefits of Speech Therapy
People who suffer from communications disorders suffer emotional and social effects. While this may be a huge quality of life issue for them, there is help from therapy. Some of the most notable improvements will be: Read more
Why is my child so forgetful?
Teaching a child with learning disabilities can be tough because it requires patience, knowledge, and the correct teaching methods to help that particular child learn. Due to the wide variety of learning disabilities, there’s no single way to teach children with learning disabilities. Sometimes it can be discouraging to see the child learning but they have a difficult time recalling what they learned. Read more
3 Tips for managing classroom disruptions
One of the most challenging situations to deal with as an educator or parent of special needs children is classroom disruption. Disruptions impede the learning process and create additional stress for the child and other students. Read more
Is there a secret to happiness?
Many of us have great plans for the future, and we are excited for the time we meet those goals, like finishing school, getting married, or simply having a day off together with the family. And then we meet those goals, but the happiness fades quickly. Was this not what we wanted? Did we have the wrong goal? Read more