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Food Aversion
"She'll eat if she's hungry enough."
"Give her to me for a week. I'll get her to eat."
"She doesn't have a problem eating when it's French fries."
"She's so thin. You should give her Ensure."
"I totally get it. My son won't eat broccoli."
"What if you made her a sticker chart?"
I've heard them all before. Some good-natured and some not so much. The advice regarding my daughter's food aversion has been many things but it has never been helpful. I can't blame folks for their futile attempts. The fact is, they know little about autism and food aversion and if I want to stop hearing the above comments everywhere I go, I better do something about that.Developing Literacy
The University of Oxford language expert tells Kate Townshend that schools need to get the right balance between phonics and comprehension skills so that children can thrive in reading
Do Reading Difficulties Manifest Differently in Girls
For many years, it was thought that boys were more likely than girls to have learning difficulties including dyslexia. However, a 1990 research study by Sally Shaywitz, professor in learning development at the Yale University School of Medicine and the co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, suggested otherwise. She proposed that the problem lay in the school’s identification methods and the presentation between boys and girls was much closer to par. More recently, however, a highly respected 2004 study found that dyslexia was two to three times more prevalent in boys than girls, so the jury is still out on a final conclusion.
Reading for Pleasure Could Stop the Decline in Children Reading
Isn’t it depressing how electronic devices seem to have completely taken over? When you’re on a train, what do you see? Almost everyone is on their phones, iPods, tablets or some kind of funky electronic device and all are almost always either on social media or listening to music. There are barely one or two people who have a book open in their hands – but we need more people like that.
Learning Self-Regulation
Self-regulation is not simply self-control. It is the ability to manage our energy states, emotions, behaviour and attention: the ability to return to a balanced, calm and constant state of being.
Spelling Has Nothing to do with Intelligence
"She's never going to be successful in life." It wasn't the most promising of starts to high school.
My grade eight teacher had discovered that I was terrible at spelling and thought he best raise the matter with my parents - both school teachers - so they could manage my expectations. I was never going to get the Secretary General of the United Nations job when I grew up because I couldn't spell.Language Disorders – A National Crisis
THE GROWING number of children with a language disorder is a public health crisis as widespread as obesity, experts claim.
The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute has revealed that developmental language disorder affects between five and eight per cent of children Australia-wide.Too Young For School?
Parents should read more to their children at home and let them learn by playing, rather than enrolling them in businesses providing "prep for Prep Year", two pre-school lobby groups say
7 Critical Warning Signs of Speech & Learning Disorders!
Early Intervention and School Readiness
Speech Clarity
Language – understanding and expression
Stuttering
Trouble Reading
Spelling 
Early Intervention and School Readiness
Speech Clarity
Language – understanding and expression’ 
Stuttering
Trouble Reading
