by Shanna Parry | Nov 24, 2020 | Blog
Help Your Child Deal With Peer Pressure Peer influence begins when children are young—and increases as they grow older. It is natural and healthy for children to rely more on friends as they mature. Sometimes peer pressure can be harmless, but sometimes it...
by Shanna Parry | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
Following instructions is a part of everyday life and as adults with young children we need to provide lots of guidance via instructions and questions to children. For a child to follow instructions requires them to attend to details in spoken language, and then to...
by Shanna Parry | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
Children don’t automatically understand directionality. From the way words are presented on a page, to visual signs, conventional behaviours, left, right, up, down and backwards. Basically, directionality is what helps children understand the environment around...
by Shanna Parry | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
A very important skill that applies daily in every classroom, is that of applying past general knowledge from one situation to another. Like most habits this skill may require a great deal of effort initially, then over time it becomes more intuitive. It is a valuable...
by Shanna Parry | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
As adults we use environmental cues almost all the time. The lights and signals on our car change, traffic light turns green, an appliance makes a sound. Our hands become dirty, both in feeling and sight, so we wash them. The traffic gets busy, we hear noises, the...
by Shanna Parry | Nov 23, 2020 | Blog
To perseverate means to repeat something, such as words, gestures or actions, over and over again. Although this can be attributed to a child who has a diagnosed condition, we are using the term in this case to describe child-like, overt behaviour that is...
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