Tag: Special Needs

Educators support many children with behavioural difficulties and developmental concerns, and need to enlist the people in their child’s life to access the support they need.  This means their role […]

The short answer is yes, if they have an ABN (a few other things are important too), but thinking long term there is more to it than that. Here are […]

Ensuring your child is ready for school is more important these days as the curriculum is more demanding of young children.  It shouldn’t be, but it is.  This is especially […]

So now you have a diagnosis for your child, sometimes it can feel like you have traded in one set of questions for a whole new set of questions.  If […]

The expectations we have of our children makes a difference in terms of how they function.. the research backs this too. Researchers Rosenthal and Jacobsen gave primary school students intelligence […]

This may sound like a small thing but when sitting is hard, it means many everyday activities can become really difficult. Sitting skills matter not only for learning but also […]

Before you became a parent, you might have had a picture in your mind about the sort of parent you thought you would be. You might have thought, I’ll be […]

Supporting children with additional needs can take so much energy, managing behaviours, going to therapy and advocating school and NDIS, the list goes on. The extra energy it can take […]

What happens when you have one member of the family who disrupts the others? I see this frequently. One child is on the go, touching things, messing things up, making […]

It may sound like more work in an already busy life, but hiring your own support worker can make life easier for the whole family. You can hire your own […]