By Deb Hopper Published in The Great Health Guide GreatHealthGuide.com.au Help Your Child Excel and Learn in Class Many children struggle in class and with learning. Whether identified or diagnosed with a learning disability or not, many typical children struggle...
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5 top tips for helping kids transition from school to holidays (and back to school)
Transition From School to Holidays (and back to school) Published by The Great Health Guide Written by Deb Hopper 5 top tips for helping kids transition from school to holidays (and back to school). Children often anticipate with excitement the thought of change,...
7 Top Tips to Improve your Child’s Fine Motor Skills
7 Top Tips Improve your Child's Fine Motor Skills When helping kids to develop accurate fine motor skills, it is important to understand how we use our hands. When we are manipulating small objects such as buttons, our hands are separated into two sides and each...
Did your child go Back to School last week?
Back to School - Back to Routine Back to School means back to early mornings, packing lunches, school runs, nights filled with homework and weekends filled with extra curriculum activities. This is a challenge for all the family. How did your children cope with the...
20 Ways You Can Help Your Children Succeed At School
With the new school year fast approaching, we found a great article on the Colorin Colorado website, to help you get a few steps ahead. 20 Ways You Can Help Your Children Succeed At School As a parent, you are your child's first and most important teacher. When...
7 Reasons Why We Should Bother To Manage Screen Time
7 Reasons why we should bother managing screen time By Deb Hopper This article was published in the Great Health Guide digital magazine – GreatHealthGuide.com.au Screen time… It’s one of those tricky topics to deal with from day to day. There are such mixed messages...
7 Teacher Musts to Increase Classroom Productivity
7 teacher must-knows to increase classroom productivity and create happy, healthy learning environments for ALL children 1. Have regular movement breaks. We need movement BEFORE we can concentrate.2. Observe for clues that children aren’t yet engaged or...
Dealing with Autism and challenging behaviour in our classrooms
As we hear another story in the news about a child being "caged" at school, this time in Queensland we can no longer sit back. Deb Hopper BHIthSc (OT) CSturt; MHIthSc Accredited Occupational Therapist is passionate about sensory processing, working as a Paedatrict...
Teachers struggling to support children with autism in class?
Today, another incident of a child with autism being restrained and put in a ‘time-out’ room, hit the headlines in Australia, this time in Hervey Bay, Queensland....
