When your kid is smart but there’s a block preventing them from shining, it can feel like you’re constantly running in circles. It’s not uncommon for smart kids to have issues with: Gross or fine motor skills Poor focus Difficulty with organization & planning Emotional-regulation and impulsivity Anxiety or OCD tendencies Weak social skills or…
Continue ReadingWhen your child has a learning disability, it’s often because they have a weak left brain. This weak left brain not only affects academics. It affects executive function. Executive Function Affects: Organization Planning and strategy Focus and attention Multi-tasking Impulse control Memory …and some of these processes related to executive function are very much a…
Continue ReadingI get hate messages on social media because of my work. People accuse me of not accepting children for who they are. They tell me I am being ‘ableist’ – that I’m prejudice. …to quit changing someone into who they are not How dare I Let me be clear on two things: #1 I will…
Continue ReadingIt doesn’t have to be complicated. It doesn’t have to take hours. …or years. And it definitely doesn’t have to be this hard all the time. Instead of more practice of the same thing and constant frustration – get your child out of the slow lane with reading, learning and attention issues. Strengthen those weak…
Continue ReadingYou know what I hated about teaching grade 7 & 8? Graduation. All the kids in their fancy outfits filled with a sense of hope and accomplishment didn’t blunt out the fact that there were far too many who we had failed. That’s right. I failed them and so did the school system. It made…
Continue ReadingAdam was like so many kids I work with. He felt angry, hopeless and stupid. He was thirteen and said to me, “I hate reading. It never gets better no matter how much I practice, and I feel like more of a loser every time I do it.” Adam had been struggling with reading, writing…
Continue ReadingHave you ever been told by your child’s doctor not to worry when your child skipped a milestone or didn’t seem to be progressing through the milestone the way you thought they should? Well if you answered ‘yes’, your mama instincts were correct. The sensory system and motor system when stimulated in certain ways help…
Continue ReadingWhen people try to convince me that nothing can be done for dyslexia or ADHD or even autism because brain imaging scans have shown these kids have different brain structures, I want to climb a ladder to the top of my house and scream from the roof top, “Yes! And decades of research have shown…
Continue ReadingHave you noticed that when we make progress or an advancement with a discovery, everyone jumps on the bandwagon and that’s all we hear about? Everyone seems to forget about the other pieces of the puzzle and thinks this ‘new advancement’ or ‘discovery’ is the answer to all of our problems. Our culture loves a…
Continue ReadingThe ability to learn well, focus, concentrate and even have a positive mood is connected to posture more than you might realise. When you consider that when you are interested in something, you tend to lean in and sit up straighter, this doesn’t seem as far-fetched. The Landau reflex is known to help the body…
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