Special Needs

Will Play Therapy help my child?

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Will Play Therapy help my child?

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.

Play therapy allows children and people who are experiencing emotional or behavioural issues to open up their emotions in the safe space of the ‘playroom’, where they are allowed to face their thoughts and emotions nonverbally. It is cited as one of the most effective treatments for children suffering from trauma or PTSD; with a number of articles and papers written about its efficacy.

Some of the benefits of Play Therapy include:

  • Helping children learn to develop a better sense of their abilities and increasing their confidence.
  • Helping children develop creative problem solving abilities.
  • Helping children learn about empathy and respect for feelings of others by giving them space to get in touch with their own thoughts and feelings.

PTUK’s Research has found Play Therapy to be an effective therapeutic approach for children.

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Parents also reported pronounced improvements to their children’s emotional outlook, better overall conduct, and improved relationships with their peers.

Via PlayTherapyTV

College of Allied Educators offers the Postgraduate Certificate in Therapeutic Play Skills, training participants to effectively use therapeutic play skills to provide emotional and psychological support to children.

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Does Speech Therapy help children improve their socialisation?

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Does Speech Therapy help children improve their socialisation?

Children who suffer from communications disorders suffer emotional and social effects that may be a huge quality of life issue for them. 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.

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Is sloppy writing a sign of something else?

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Is sloppy writing a sign of something else?

Each of us have different handwriting styles. Some are neat while others are sloppy and misaligned, yet still remain legible. It is when the handwriting is illegible that you must take special note. Children who have trouble expressing themselves in writing may have a condition known as ‘Dysgraphia’. The term comes from the Greek words dys, which means “impaired”, and graphia, meaning “writing letter by hand”.

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What are the stages of your child’s speech & language development?

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What are the stages of your child’s speech & language development?

If you are unsure about how your child’s speech and language is developing because they may appear to be unresponsive to vocal cues, or seem to be taking longer than their peers to speak in full sentences, the natural reaction may be to think the child might have speech and language delay. This may not always be the case.

Here are some things you need to know

In most instances, children develop along a progressive schedule with generally predictable milestones.

0-5 months:

  • Responds to sources of sound or voices
  • Makes cooing noises or displays sounds associated with emotions like laughter.

6-11 months:

  • Uses gestures
  • Attempts to repeat words of adults
  • starts babbling

12-17 months:

  • Is able to follow simple directions
  • Attempts to imitate full words
  • Starts to understand and answer basic questions non-verbally

18-23 months:

  • Has a vocabulary of up to a dozen words
  • Can ask for common things by name
  • Can pronounce vowels properly and starts using other sounds

2-3 years:

  • Understands and uses “you,” “I,” “me,” and other pronouns
  • Starts forming multiple words into a phrase or short sentence
  • Has ability to verbally reply to simply questions

3-4 years:

  • Speak at a level that strangers should be able to understand
  • Can express their feelings and thoughts
  • Able to repeat and convey whole sentences

Contact us to see how you can develop an understanding of the different types of exceptional children, their needs, and the different special needs programmes and specialties that are available to you, for them.

CAE’s 12-months Advanced Diploma in Special Education course trains educators and parents in the identification, diagnosis and treatment of these needs and the basic principles and practices of effective teaching and learning. The programme is highly practice-oriented to ensure that what you learn in class can be applied to children with special needs under your charge.

CAE’s Diploma in Learning Disorders Management & Child Psychology programme is designed specifically to train potential teachers, parents and caregivers to identify, detect and support children with special needs, such as Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Dyspraxia, and Dyslexia.

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It’s easy to misidentify special needs and learning difficulties!

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It’s easy to misidentify special needs and learning difficulties!

As parents and educators, we often do our homework on the various disabilities of special needs students. With the best of intentions, we sometimes make personal assessments of our children and students that look correct, but in some circumstances, these impromptu assessments end up incorrect a great deal of time.

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What are the challenges of parenting a child with special needs?

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What are the challenges of parenting a child with special needs?

Parenting a child with special needs is challenging. It requires extra effort in time, awareness, and education. These considerations will be quite different from one child to the next because ‘special needs’ is used as an umbrella term to encompass anything from light learning disabilities to more severe behaviour issues. Proper diagnoses ensure parents will be focussing on the right methods and activities for their child.

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Signs of speech delay

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Signs of speech delay

Many parents and educators may see slow language development as something children eventually outgrow but evidence suggests that sometimes they don’t. Children who have delays in language and speech development may be more at risk for learning disabilities and even children who outgrow the initial difficulties sometimes show signs of learning disabilities from age 6 onwards.

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How does a learning disability affect the child?

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How does a learning disability affect the child?

After a child is diagnosed with a learning disability, it’s assumed this will greatly affect their ability to learn. In some sense it may be true, but in another, this need not be the case. When diagnosed early enough, the effects of the child’s learning disability can be mitigated with the proper intervention strategies and the right education for both the child, parent, and educator.

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Jump ahead with your career in Special Education!

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Jump ahead with your career in Special Education!

Jump ahead with your career in the special education industry with CAE’s WSQ Early Intervention Principles and Practices. This WSQ course is a short 2-day (15.5 hrs) course that will help better equip you with skills to educate students and children under your care, whether you are a preschool teacher, special needs educator, or allied educator.

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