When your child is diagnosed with a learning difficulty, your feelings and emotions will go into overdrive. These emotions will be influenced by the time it has taken to get the diagnosis and how the delay has impacted your child’s confidence and well-being. Here are 5 emotions you may feel...
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Your child’s resilience is influenced by two things; the individual characteristics they were born with and the environmental influences around them. As a parent there are five areas to focus on when you’re building a child’s resilience, these are: Providing education about resilience. Building strong and supportive relationships. Working on...
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Jay Leno is an inspiration to many Source: af.mil When your child is struggling at school it can be overwhelming for parents. You’ll be constantly seeking help from teachers, trying to keep them positive and knowing exactly where to start is extremely difficult. There are remedial programs to consider, parent...
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When your child is struggling to learn, people will often say to you as a parent, find their strengths and it will fix everything, but it doesn’t quite work that way, because first, you have to find them. “Your child’s strengths are a great place to start when you want...
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Firstly we all need to be aware that having a school learning difficulty can and does provide advantages. That’s right I said ‘advantages’. There are skills that some struggling school learners excel in that many others do not. Maybe you can recognise some of these strengths in your own child...
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Is your child a shutdown learner when it comes to reading? This is the child who has tried and tried to learn to read and has simply given up. These children have decided that it’s not for them and they don’t want to try anymore or feel embarrassed as a...
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We all know that anxiety is an ever-present symptom in children with learning difficulties, disabilities or differences. Children who are struggling to learn at school are often overwhelmed and paralyzed by anxiety, so how can we explain to our children what anxiety is? The topic is complicated, but you can...
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There are three simple steps you can follow to deal with anxiety in children. Anxiety is not uncommon in children with school learning difficulties, disabilities or differences. In fact, I have just successfully gone through this 3-step process with my own daughter, so I thought I would share it with...
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My second son has just graduated from high school and finished year 12. We have just had his valedictory dinner at the Melbourne Museum. It was a magical evening. My school journey isn’t over just yet, I still have my daughter to go and of course, the support I offer...
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