The road to confident handwriting begins when your child is a preschooler. This practical advice about prewriting skills for preschoolers comes from children’s occupational therapists at Kids First in Sydney’s northern beaches. What is the importance of...
Have you ever arrived to collect your child from preschool and been told that they have been bitten by one of their peers? Perhaps your child has been the biter!Biting is one of those behaviours that be both surprising and distressing for parents and teachers –...
An occupational therapist teaches kids to tie their shoe laces and hold a pencil properly, right? Well… we suppose that can be true…. but children’s occupational therapists who specialise in supporting kids’ social, emotional and functional skills can play a much...
In today’s world of computers, portable devices and other ‘screens’, it might be easy to think that handwriting is a redundant skill for kids. While technology is racing into classrooms all over Australia, children are still required to hand write exams such as NAPLAN...
Occupational Therapists in Sydney’s northern beaches explain how occupational therapy helps children who have Asperger syndrome. Did you know that the way we refer to Asperger syndrome has changed? In the most recent update of the Diagnostic Manual used by...
Children who struggle to write letters the right way around, remember spelling and concentrate on tasks often have underlying visual perception problems. Occupational Therapist, Morgan Webster from Kids First is Sydney’s northern beaches, explains what this means and...
