by Debbie Hopper | Jun 20, 2018 | Anxiety, Behaviour Problems, Blog, Child Behaviour, Child Development, Encouragement, Fine Motor, Sensory Processing
At LifeSkills4Kids, we are passionate about helping young people with their social anxiety challenges. As parents, we want our kids to be happy, content and enjoying the adventure of growing into adults. In an ideal world, this would be easy for us and our kids to...
by Debbie Hopper | Jun 6, 2018 | Anxiety, Behaviour Problems, Blog, Child Behaviour, Child Development, Encouragement
As parents, we worry if our young people are nervous or anxious about things that happen in every day life. To begin with, it is a good idea to ask several questions: 1. How can we go about helping kids with social anxiety? 2. How can we use the benefit of our...
by Debbie Hopper | Jun 1, 2018 | Blog, Child Behaviour, Child Development, Fine Motor, Fine Motor Sensory Solutions, Sensory Processing in the Classroom
Steps to using a self regulation program as a ‘whole class’ classroom management strategy Teaching children about their emotions and how to manage them in a school environment is a complex and long range task. All children need to learn these skills, but often in a...
by Debbie Hopper | May 24, 2018 | Blog, Occupational Therapy, Sensory Processing
[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr1aHtyfwSM[/embedyt] By Simone Ryan – Occupational Therapist – talking about regulation. One of the most common requests I’ve had when working with families and educators of children (with or without a disability...
by Debbie Hopper | May 15, 2018 | Blog, Child Development, Sensory Processing
How do you go about teaching students with visual impairments? In your classroom group, there will be a wide range of abilities and needs for individual pupils. It is important to devise strategies to enable each individual to have the greatest access possible to...
