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  • Dealing with the Stress of the HSC

    Are you feeling under pressure? With the HSC looming, it’s understandable if you’re feeling a little overwhelmed. In fact, it’s perfectly normal. Most people experience stress and anxiety from time to time, but it’s important you make sure you’re dealing with high emotions in a healthy way and that you reach out for help and advice when you need it.

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  • How to Best Support a Child with Learning Difficulties

    Margaret Rooke, the mother of a teenage daughter with dyslexia has interviewed 100 children around the world about the disadvantages and strengths of living with dyslexia. She, with teenager Leah discus how

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  • 10 Things You May Not Know About Having a Special Needs Child

    Hannah is the reason for Health, Home, & Happiness. If I had two typically developing children, I wouldn’t have done the whole GAPS journey, wouldn’t have so much to share with you on the internet, and most likely would be in a different line of work. She has special needs, she had autism but it was healed with GAPS, but she still has a global delay diagnosis and we’re still trying alternative treatments to heal her body as much as possible.

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  • Teaching Phonics - Yay!

    Headteachers who resist teaching phonics are denying students the “education they deserve”, the Schools Minister has warned.

    Attacking heads who refuse to accept the “overwhelming evidence” in favour of phonics, Nick Gibb claimed that “fallacious” beliefs about reading had “blighted” the education outcomes of “generations of children”.

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  • How Language Delay and Autism Brains Differ

    Babies with autism show behavioral and brain features that differ from those of babies with language delay1. These findings from a new study hint at different biological origins for autism and language delay.

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  • How Spelling Helps Reading

    Many young readers are puzzled by the rules and exceptions of spelling. Research shows that learning to spell and learning to read rely on much of the same underlying knowledge. Learn more about the relationships between letters and sounds and how a proper understanding of spelling mechanics can lead to improved reading.

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  • Should Parents Pull Back?

    I’m sure you’ve all heard the terms ‘helicopter parents’, ‘bubble wrap parents’, ‘lawn mower parents’ and maybe even ‘black op’s parents’. They are used to describe parents who either swoop in and solve problems for their kids or who never allow a problem to emerge in the first place.

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  • Speaking and Maths Go Together

    Classrooms in the U.S. often focus most attention on literacy and math, largely because those skills are considered foundational and are tested. However most people will also need to communicate their thoughts and ideas to other people through oral language, and yet effective communication strategies are often not taught with the same precision and structure as other parts of the curriculum.

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  • A Fun Way to Develop Fine Motor Skills

    A super fun activity idea with theraputty that just happens to develop those fine motor skills needed for writing along the way!

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  • Australian Story - Asperger's Specialist Tony Attwood

    Is Asperger's syndrome the next stage of human evolution?,


    Professor Tony Attwood believes the "out of the box" thought processes of people on the autism spectrum will solve the world's big problems.


    He is credited with being the first clinical psychologist to present Asperger's syndrome not as something to be "fixed " but as a gift, evidenced in many of the great inventors and artists throughout history.

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