Dysgraphia – How to help your child
Dysgraphia – The learning disability that affects writing skills. Dysgraphia is a term that was previously used to describe and categorise a learning disability that affects writing skills, but its…
Unpacking Daily Functioning Skills – Why this superhero power is important
But as children, we need to establish the skills, the functional skills, to be able to perform those daily functional tasks with simplicity and ease of transaction. Things like getting dressed, tying shoelaces, showering, having a bath, going to the toilet, cooking, brushing our hair, packing our school bag, and writing.
How to easily help your child increase their curiosity through sense of touch.
Easily help your child increase their curiosity through sense of touch
How to easily help your child increase their curiosity through sense of touch.
Fine motor skills – 11 easy ways you can help your children at home
It’s using those smaller muscle groups that really help us perform our day to day tasks with ease. We call these Fine Motor Skills. Smaller day to day tasks requires…
The SIPT in Practice – Handwriting
Blog: The SIPT in practice – Handwriting Parents and caregivers are often full of questions about how some of the tasks and activities from the Sensory Integration and Praxis Test…
DIS-GRAF-EEA: Ideas to support at home and school
So, last week we looked at Dysgraphia, what it is, how it can present and what can be done to assess handwriting difficulties. This week we will discuss some of the…
DIS-GRAF-EEA: What is it and how do I know?
What is Dysgraphia I am sure many of you have heard of the term Dysgraphia (dis-graf-eea). We have already touched on Dyspraxia, which has links to Dysgraphia, however Dysgraphia is a seperate entity…
Dominance…Hand dominance
Hand dominance. Tying in from a recent post on crossing the midline, we thought why not go further and add in an important by-product of developing midline skills, Hand Dominance. One might…
Handwriting is Learning
We found the below infographic from the 'Giraffe Childcare and Early Learning Centres' website, and although the statistics are based on data from Ireland, we thought it was a nice…
