A Speech Pathology assessment can be a great first step in understanding your child’s strengths and ongoing needs across the areas of speech sound development, expressive and receptive language, social pragmatic skills, and early literacy skills. These assessments can help to identify goals for intervention and enable strategies and supports to be put in place […]
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A psychology assessment can be an important tool for parents who are concerned about their child’s development or behaviour. These assessments can provide valuable information about a child’s cognitive, emotional, and social functioning, and can help identify any potential areas for support and improvement. One of the main reasons to consider a psychology assessment is
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As a parent, it can be difficult to know how to best support your child’s emotional and psychological well-being. A psychologist can be a valuable resource in providing guidance and strategies for helping your child to thrive. One of the main ways a psychologist can help your child is by providing individualised therapy. This can
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With many of us working from home, home schooling children, caring for family members and other life situations it’s no wonder so many of us are feeling tired, irritable, stressed, and uncertain. The uncertainty and change that the pandemic has created in our lives has been huge and is likely to have repercussions into the
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If you have a child aged between four and five years old, chances are you have heard the term ‘school readiness’. It can be daunting thinking about all the skills your child might need before they head off to school and the concept of ‘readiness’ can be confusing. So, what makes a child ready for
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As parents, our number one priority is to keep our children safe. Often this might mean we want to shelter them from certain situations, information, people that we feel are threatening or situations that give us anxiety. But if our children are not exposed to factual information and given opportunities to make their own decisions
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For parents who are exposed to the term ‘paediatric occupational therapy’ for the first time, it would not be unusual to question the relevance or even know how an occupational therapist could help your child. Many of us associate the word ‘occupation’ with adults and work life, and it is because of this that the
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