Written By Deb Hopper, Occupational Therapist Anxiety can show up in a myriad of ways and many children slip under the radar, go untreated, and are often misunderstood by their parents, teachers and peers. Often children’s anxiety symptoms are misunderstood as “behavioural” issues. Being clingy, complaining, vigilant, or reacting or hitting peers on the playground
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Written By Deb Hopper, Occupational Therapist Do you struggle in supporting emotional well being at home for your ASD child? As parents, we all want our kids to be happy, well adjusted and enjoying life. Kids with ASD respond to using visuals to understand routines, transitions and expectations of them. In the school environment, ASD
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Whether we are seeing children in our classroom or clinic, there are many sensory processing behaviours, clues and responses that we need to filter as we try to work out: Why are they showing this behaviour? Are they tired? Are they missing a parent who’s away for work this week? Are there any triggers? Is
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Overwhelmed: A Child’s Safe Space Written by Deb Hopper Published in Navigating through the day as a child can be an exhilarating, yet daunting process. There is the fun and joy of play, friends and family. There is also the challenge of meeting new people, the social challenges of interaction with play, the environmental
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Here are some ideas for creating a sensory corner at home using easily sourced and low cost products. ____________________________________________________ I have this room – it’s not private enough for a fourth bedroom, not secure enough for an office or study, and calling it a ‘play room’ is frankly annoying because all I ever see is
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Minimising Tantrums at the Shops Part 2 All parents understand the struggle and balancing act that shopping with children can be. In last month’s edition of GHG (TM), we took a look at some of the less understood reasons why shopping can be so hard for children. We recommend reading this article to gain a
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NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM – You can now access the Great Health Guide through ISSUU – CLICK HERE TO ACCESS Minimising Tantrums at the Shops By Deb Hopper Published in The Great Health Guide CLICK HERE FOR THE AUDIO VERSION Taking kids shopping is one of those activities that can feel like you are in a balancing act,
Continue reading »Hi, I’m Deb Hopper, Occupational Therapist and Amazon number one bestselling author from Life Skills 4 Kids. I just wanted to touch base this month and say hi. We’ve been active in lots of exciting things this year, including being involved and published in the Great Health Guide, a monthly online magazine. We’ve had some
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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, whether it is going back to school or going on school holidays. As
Continue reading »Thank you to the Great Lakes Advocate for sharing an article on Deb Hopper this week. Great Lakes Advocate January 2016 Full Article Below: Local Occupational Therapist Deb Hopper Achieves Amazon Number 1 Best Selling Author for New Book Deb Hopper, Forster local Paediatric Occupational Therapist has recently achieved her dream of becoming a
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