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Homework…That seemingly endless battle that seems mostly to inspire anxiety, avoidance, annoyance and loads and loads of frustration. If your children are like so many others who find homework overwhelming, I’m sure you’ve experienced the tears, cries, avoidance strategies and many more frustrating or annoying behaviours that children can be so good at. Although I’m […]

Happy New Year Everyone! I hope you all had a great Christmas and start to the new year. I’m back at work today, trying to frantically catch up on my emails, reports, blogs, and so on, and feeling completely frazzled, but I took a moment to stop and think about what the new year means […]

As we rush around finding gifts for our children this year, I wanted to share one more Christmas gift ideas post, this one about how to choose gifts that would help develop your child’s reading, writing and mathematic skills. There are many options available, obviously, but I will give you a few suggestions here. There […]

Buying your child’s gifts for Christmas can be very overwhelming. The advertisements on the television begin to multiple and walking into a toy store becomes an experience as the crowds build up and toys are looking at you from every angle, it doesn’t help that the time between now and Santa is ever decreasing! It […]

Buying your child’s gifts for Christmas can be very overwhelming. The advertisements on the television begin to multiple and walking into a toy store becomes an experience as the crowds build up and toys are looking at you from every angle, it doesn’t help that the time between now and Santa is ever decreasing! It […]

As I mentioned in my last post, the term Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) implies that this is a condition experienced by children which results in difficulties in coordination. While this is true, it is also woefully incomplete. We do see, without a doubt, that children with DCD/dyspraxia have motor skill difficulties. Many common difficulties faced by this […]

Dyspraxia has been known by many different names over the last few decades. From “clumsy child” to “minimal brain damage” (in what I like to call the “dark ages”) to Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD), Motor Learning Disorder and Dyspraxia. Dyspraxia is the most commonly used term in some countries, including the UK & Ireland, although […]

Posture is very important for many activities of daily living, e.g. for feeding, writing, games, schoolwork, homework and so on. Not only is it important for physical control of the body, but it can also increase attention and help increase control of eye movements. Poor posture may be caused by a multitude of things, but it is commonly […]

Recently I read an article about gene mutations linked to Autism. The article (linked below) claims that 33 genes have been definitely linked to an increased risk of having Autistic Spectrum Disorders, with 107 being loosely linked. 5% of these are believed to be non-inherited gene mutations, which implies that 95% of these genes are […]

Many children hate handwriting, but for some, it can be a labour of pure agony. Have you ever noticed your child shake or rub his hand or elbow while doing homework or writing? If so, this can be a sign of poor handwriting endurance. I don’t know about you, but I remember the ache of writing […]