Anxiety disorders are the second most common childhood mental illness in all children and the most common among girls (AIHW, 2020). Anxiety includes 3 aspects: physiological (rapid heartbeat, stomach aches, sweating) cognitive (thoughts) behavioural (responses eg avoidance or refusal). Anxiety...
Proficient fine motor skills are necessary for many daily skills such as using scissors to cut paper, holding a pencil to write and draw, opening and closing scissors, doing and undoing buttons and zips and engaging in building/construction play. Fine motor skills develop sequentially from birth...
Neuroception, as described by Dr Stephen Porges "is a neurobiological process, programmed into our DNA, which helps us evaluate our environment and distinguish whether the situations or people around us are safe, dangerous or life threatening. Neuroception is monitoring our body, environment and...
There are many reasons why toileting is a tricky thing for a child. It can be difficult to understand what the underlying causes are. To develop continence, a child needs to be able to have control of their bowel and bladder, understand the toileting routine, and have a sense of safety when...
Dr Jean Ayres, founder of Sensory Integration Therapy coined the term Gravitational Insecurity (GI) in 1972. Gravitational Insecurity is an exaggerated emotional or fear response to movement experiences, and is considered a vestibular-based sensory integration deficit that is remediated through...
Often when people think about social skills they look at categories of play (practice play, constructive play, symbolic play and games with rules) and stages of social play (unoccupied play behaviour, onlooker play, solitary independent play, parallel play, associative play and cooperative play). ...
The United Nations now recognises the importance of play for child development. It is deemed a Human Right of every child. Through play with peers and other adults, children are given the opportunity to develop their emotional, cognitive, language and self-regulation skills. These skills provide...
Family Connections Sydney is a Registered Provider for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). We are registered to provide services under the following NDIS categories:- Capacity Building Supports for Early Childhood (ECEI) Therapeutic supports Services can be provided across all NDIS...
In our busy reality, everything happens quickly and our children are often expected to follow at the same pace. Everything happens faster and there is more things happening around us. We don’t always have time to check if children understand what is happening around them. Do they really know how...
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