Headstart for Life

Author: Freya

Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy

Introversion or Social Deficit: Where to draw the line?

In my journey of seeing children for social skills intervention, I have come to meet wonderful parents who has genuine concern with their children. And more often, they would have comments and descrip

5 years ago by 2 minutes

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Speech Therapy

From Social Communication Challenges to The Good Doctor

Thank you for joining me again to discuss this week’s topic: Shaun Murphy’s social skills! If you have watched the drama series, The Good Doctor, I am sure you know who I am talking about. Yes

5 years ago by 2 minutes

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Speech Therapy

5 Useful Strategies to Help Anxious Children

Hello! Welcome back to HeadStart For Life’s blog, Beyond Therapy! Chinese New Year has been celebrated, adults gone back to work and children back to school. Times flies and we just entered into

6 years ago by 2 minutes

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Social Skills Training

6 Mindfulness Activities That Help Children Improve Their Social Skills

Hi! Thank you for staying tune to our HeadStart for Life blog – Beyond Therapy! Recently, I came across some articles about the connection between mindfulness and social skills and would like to

6 years ago by 2 minutes

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Social Skills Training

5 Picture Books That Speak the Language of Feelings

“Feelings come and feelings go. I never know what they’ll be. Silly or angry, happy or sad — They’re all a part of me!” – Janan Cain Abracadabra! Welcome back to Headstart for Life

7 years ago by 2 minutes

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Social Skills Training

How does your child’s sensory processing affect his social skills?

Thanks again for staying tuned to the HeadStart for Life blog, Beyond Therapy! I hope you enjoyed reading my previous article about role play and also had fun with those games. This time I would like

7 years ago by 2 minutes

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Social Skills Training

Let’s do role play!

Hi there! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s blog – Beyond Therapy! Today we’ll be discussing… Role Play! Role play is a term used to describe a kind of play where a person a

7 years ago by 2 minutes

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Social Skills Training

Emotion and Connection

Happy Chinese New Year! Gong Xi Fa Cai! It is a happy time of the year with the festivities now! But have you ever wondered why we feel what we feel? Why we do what we do? Same questions apply when we

8 years ago by 1 minute

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Social Skills Training

Understanding Self- regulation: Why can’t my child seem to control himself?

More than once, I have heard parents give this kind of feedback about their child’s behaviours, “He knows he should not do that, but still, he will do it again and again,”. This is an example wh

8 years ago by 2 minutes

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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy

Teach the Way the Child Learns

If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn -Ignacio Estrada Thank you for following the post! I hope that you have tried out some of the inventive ideas in

8 years ago by 2 minutes

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Social Skills Training

5 Inventive Ideas to Improve Your Child’s Social Skills

Hi and Welcome back! In my previous post, I discussed the reasons of teaching children social skills. To re-cap, social skills are not a simple task for them to learn intuitively, it has a close rel

8 years ago by 3 minutes

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Social Skills Training

3 Reasons Why We Need to Teach Children Social Skills

Did you know that non-verbal language, which includes body language and tone of voice, contributes a higher portion (as high as 93%) of effective communication in sending our messages across than spo

9 years ago by 2 minutes

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