Children with dyslexia have very special brains. While they may never read as fast as a non dyslexic person, their brains are wired in a way that makes them out-of-the-box, big picture thinkers who are as creative and capable – if not more so – than the next person.
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Find out about a unique hands-on play environment created especially for children with autism and their families in honour of World Autism Awareness Month.
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There are many children struggling in school who don’t need to be placed in remedial classes. They need something special, but they’re not exactly special needs. They would thrive in a different environment but not that one.
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Unlike other illnesses, there is no blood test, scan or gene that can reliably diagnose ADHD. There is a great deal of reliance on observations of teachers and parents who are required to fill in a “Rating Scale” describing the child’s behaviour.
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Is it at all possible that a child is not ADHD but rather highly sensitive? What we as human beings take into our brain is usually regulated, could “ADHD” kids just lack this regulation?
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Most gifted kids end up like an unwrapped gift – they are a group of the most unrecognized and misdiagnosed children around today. They are some of the children most often found in a variety of therapies because they don’t fit in the normal schooling mould and we don’t know what to do with them.
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The battle still continues within me about whether ADHD actually exists and whether my son indeed has been blessed with its tendencies. Either way, there are definitely a few things I have learnt along the way and which I try to apply most days:
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The number of autism cases are increasing worldwide. Yet the symptoms of this conditions are often so vague and subtle that parents and even medical experts find it difficult to pinpoint what exactly is wrong with a child.
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Aside from a lack of viable schools, the reasons parents educate their children with special needs at home vary. They may be frustrated that schools are unable to provide the services their child needs, t
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Kids with special needs will often look different or behave differently to other children. This does not give you the right to stare, judge or gawp at them.
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Have you ever considered homeschooling your children? Perhaps you live on a remote farm or your special needs child cannot be accommodated in a mainstream school, or maybe your child is simply not getting the individual attention he deserves.
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As a mother I know that all I want to do for my kids is make things better but in all my investigations about this topic the biggest revelation of all was that I needed to change first before I could do anything for my son.
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There are many children incorrectly diagnosed as being either ADHD or as having Oppositional Defiance Disorder who are really just highly sensitive children who are overwhelmed by the rush of sensory input that they’re unable to filter out
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