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Difficulties With Attention or Distractability
Difficulties with attention or distractibility, impulsive behaviour and managing our emotions can affect our participation in meaningful occupations within the home, family life and the community including employment and social situations. This can cause significant...
Co-parenting Apps To Make Your Child’s Life Easier
Often Co-parenting after separation and divorce has its ups and downs. Communication can be strained, especially if the your journey apart was not a pleasant process. This will affect your child, but more so, and although I made the title altruistic, I note that this...
Online telehealth therapy sessions now available during COVID-19 pandemic
In the wake of COVID-19 restrictions, we can now offer and expanding range of online telehealth therapy sessions in which you use a video call or phone call to hold your appointment with our therapist. See the video interview with Brett Williams at the bottom of this...
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
As a parent we often worry about whether our children are meeting milestones and developing appropriately in a wide range of areas. Sometimes it can be clear when a child is having difficulty and for others it can be hard to determine if being slightly...
Attention and Concentration
Attention and concentration are important skills for children to be able to interact and engage appropriately in a variety on environments. When children struggle with these skills it can greatly impact on their academic performance regardless of their...
Following and Leading in Relationships
Following and leading in relationships can be important concepts to understand and apply because they have a large bearing on self-esteem and the building or diminishing trust over time. While these principles apply to all relationships, let's start by focussing on...
Three simple phrases that can profoundly deepen family relationships
There are three simple phrases that can profoundly deepen your relationships with your children and/or partner, and they were shared recently on The Adelaide Show Podcast by Adelaide Night And Day Family Therapy principal, Brett Williams. The quality of writers they...
Anger As A Secondary Emotion
Anger is such an interesting emotion. It is so misunderstood and seen as something Bad. There is no question that anger can be scary. But it is not in itself bad. The "badness" so to speak is when: it causes fear in those around us where fear is not useful...
What is a Sensory Diet?
Have you recently found out that your child has Sensory Processing Difficulties? If so it may have been suggested that a sensory diet would be helpful. You may be wondering how your child’s diet can help them to process sensory input more effectively, however a...
Sensory Processing in the classroom
The classroom environment can be an extremely difficult place to navigate for a child with sensory processing difficulties. When a child has #sensory processing difficulties they can present in a number of different ways in the #classroom. Some being easier to pick...
