Therapy resources for families of children with additional needs
I often get asked lots of questions by parents looking for support for their children. Naturally, parents are keen to find out who I am and what I can do …
Category: Treatment & Therapy
How can children be traumatised just by going to school?
In a post titled Send Children Being Traumatised By Not Getting Help Needed in School, Tania recently touched on the subject of SEN children becoming traumatised by the education system. She wrote about …
Irlen syndrome: a screener’s perspective
Back in 2012, we ran a parent story about her son’s difficulties, “When the words move by themselves – it could be Visual Stress.” It’s also known as Irlen syndrome and …
How Yoga can help your special needs child
We’ve run a couple of posts on SNJ from Lorraine Senior about Reflexology for children with special needs. They were really appreciated by readers so I’m delighted to be able to bring …
How do people with autism experience empathy?
I decided to write about this as a result of an article I posted on SNJ’s social media a while back about autism and empathy. It had such a great response …
All about The Challenging Behaviour Foundation
Challenging Behaviour. As parents, we’ve all experienced it at one time or another and as children we’ve probably exhibited some as well. It’s part of growing up. But for some …
Sensory Occupational Therapy for Sensory Processing Disorder
Emily Alexander has a magical secret… she works for Santa at The International Elf Service. She is also a Registered Osteopath and a Mum to a wonderful little boy who has …
When and how to access speech and language therapy
When you are concerned about your child’s development, it can be worrying and difficult to know where to go for support. I often have conversations with people who are unsure …
Top tips for preparing for medical appointments
Elizabeth writes… It can be daunting going to any appointment. I see myself as relatively level-headed and as a speech therapist, have lots of experience talking to different professionals. However, …
My son has autism! Is anyone listening?
Hello…can you hear me? Are you listening? I mean really listening? How often do we really listen to each other? I don’t mean just hearing someone speak and then waiting …
Is this ASD research a potential game-changer?
There is new research and findings about causes and potential therapies for autism every week, but the following caught my eye in particular. I’ve reproduced a section below and you …
Top Tips for Speech and Language Therapy – Part Two
Here is the second part of top tips for speech and language therapy from Helen & Elizabeth at SpeechBlogUK. If you have any tips that have proved useful, please do …
Top Tips for Speech and Language Therapy – Part One
As is often the case, I come across great resources and services for children with special needs on Twitter. I then cheekily ask them if they’d like to contribute a …
Charlotte’s amazing brain – a heartfelt story about childhood stroke
I happened upon a new blog via Twitter the other day, which told a powerful and emotional story about a young girl who suffered childhood stroke, was close to death, …
The Brain Injury Hub – a brilliant resource
As part of Family Voice Surrey, I have visited The Children’s Trust in Tadworth a number of times as they kindly lend us a room for our meetings. The Children’s …
10 Tips for Developing Your Child’s Language Skills
I recently met Vanessa King, when she joined our Women in Business Network group in Farnham. Vanessa is a qualified teacher, parent, toastmaster and an expert in teaching confident speaking …
Volunteering: The best way to spend your summer
Tania says: We’re heading off for Italy this weekend and because both boys have special needs, we’ve always rented a villa with a pool and taken their Grandma and Nonno …
Floortime for Autism winner!
A couple of weeks ago I featured an article about Floortime therapy for autism. See the post here. We ran a competition for a free ticket and the winner is: Sarah …
If ‘child centred’ help is a no-brainer, why isn’t it happening?
One thing that’s become very familiar in the last few years, both personally and from reading your comments and emails, is how outragously hard it is to get the right …
Sensory needs met with a Body Sox
Many children with special needs have sensory issues, including my two. Their school used Body Sox which Youngest absolutely loves. He asked me to source one for him and here …