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How can a ‘Supportive Wider Circle of Care’ further enhance your child’s development?

Imagine. If everyone coming into contact with your child was also contributing in some way to your child’s learning, how much faster your child could be progressing!

Along with the hands-on support I provide your child during their therapy session, their parents also receive Home Activity Programs…

Variations in Environment and Experiences. Why is it important? And how can it further support your child’s development?

Clearly this is a subject with far-reaching consequences. I want to give you a short introduction and a reminder of its importance. The random movements made naturally by infants provide their nervous systems with the necessary information…

Would you expect that therapy sessions alone can ‘fix the problem’ or solve your child’s current challenges all on their own?

How then can an on-going Home Activity Program support your special needs child’s success with their therapy?

Let me explain.

Why Consistent Commitment? How does your consistent commitment to your child’s therapy ensure their continued success?

Often times, I get asked the question, ‘How often should my child have their therapy?’ Before I integrated alternative therapies into my physiotherapy practice, I regularly saw my clients for 1 to 2 sessions per week. Having now used the Feldenkrais® and Anat Banial Methods alongside physiotherapy for my clients for over 10 years, I’ve learned from experience that your special needs child makes the fastest progress when…

Support Your Child’s Success! How can your child with special challenges achieve the most benefit from their therapy?

What are the key elements required for your child to enjoy success with and from their therapies? Are you trying one therapy after another hoping that the next one will offer more positive outcomes than the previous one?

Expand Your Child’s Movement Vocabulary! Why is it important to support your child with a wide variety of ‘movement vocabulary’?

Has it ever occurred to you that your child with special challenges also needs a set of movement ‘ingredients’ or ‘vocabulary’ to allow them to build bigger and more purposeful movements. And just like learning to read and write, there are many ways to put these ‘movement vocabularies’ together to achieve functional movements and hence, independence.

Believe in Your Child! Our beliefs can support (or impede) our children’s progress.

With well intended efforts, and often without being aware it, parents could inadvertently slow down their child’s progress. When you support a safe and stimulating learning environment for your child, you are providing your child with the opportunity to figure out for themselves what they want, and experience how it feels to achieve what they want.

Awareness In Action! How can you support your child to awaken the ‘observer’ within?

When your child is ‘Awaring’, it’s as if your child has an ‘inner observer’ shining a light, revealing something your child has not felt or realized before. Awareness on this internal sensory level elevates your child’s brain to a place of discovery and choice rather than being reactive or on automatic pilot.