Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Welcome back to Headstart For Life’s Blog, Beyond Therapy! Today, we are going to look at an important skill that enables our children to form meaningful interactions and relationships with the ...
4 years ago by Danica 2 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
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 Freya 2 minutes
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy,Therapeutic Play
Hello readers! Thanks for joining us for another edition of HeadStart for Life’s blog, Beyond Therapy. It’s getting close to the time of year when we stop to take a moment to reflect on ou...
5 years ago by Natalie 1 minute
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy,Therapeutic Play
When young people don’t know how to control or release what they are feeling in a healthy way, it’s easier for them to make emotion-based decisions. How does a child who lacks socio-emotio...
5 years ago by Dianne 1 minute
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Welcome back to Headstart For Life’s Blog, Beyond Therapy! In today’s blog post, we are going to explore how a child’s level of play changes over time, as well as how adults can support...
5 years ago by Danica 3 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Welcome back to HeadStart For Life’s Blog, Beyond Therapy! In my previous post, we talked about the different types of stories that children tell, and a variety of strategies we can use to help th...
6 years ago by Danica 2 minutes
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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 Freya 2 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
We are all storytellers. We all live in a network of stories. There isn’t a stronger connection between people than storytelling. – Jimmy Neil Smith Welcome back to HeadStart For Life’s Blog, B...
6 years ago by Danica 2 minutes
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy,Therapeutic Play
Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s Beyond Therapy blog! As a speech-language therapist, I help children reach their developmental communication milestones. I know if a child makes progress by obse...
6 years ago by Jessica 1 minute
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“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 Freya 2 minutes
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy,Therapeutic Play
Hi everyone! Happy Chinese New Year from everyone at HeadStart for Life! HeadStart for Life was fortunate to have Cheryl join us as an intern for the past few weeks. This week, she is sharing her thou...
7 years ago by HeadStart for Life 2 minutes
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy,Therapeutic Play
Hi everyone! HeadStart for Life had been fortunate to have an intern, Joe, join us for 2 months in October and November 2017. As it is always interesting to hear from someone who is not already workin...
7 years ago by HeadStart for Life 2 minutes
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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 Freya 2 minutes
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy,Therapeutic Play
Hi there! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s Blog, Beyond Therapy! Do you feel we live in a world where structure is a religion and routine is a virtue. Experiences help shape our thinking, pr...
7 years ago by Usha 2 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Hello everyone! Welcome back to HeadStart for Life’s blog! Previously, I discussed several ways in which we can use a toy that most of us will be very familiar with to support various aspects of...
7 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes
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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 Freya 2 minutes
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
At HeadStart, we have seen parents who know if their child has sensory processing difficulty, thus behaviour problems are inevitable. However, not every behaviour problem is a result of sensory proces...
8 years ago by Usha 2 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Hello everyone! Welcome to our new series on getting the most out of your toys! Often, parents have told me that they don’t really know how to use the toys at home to play in a variety of ways. ...
8 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes
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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 Freya 1 minute
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School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Welcome back to a brand new year of our HeadStart for Life blog, Beyond Therapy! It’s that time of the year again! Christmas and New Year celebrations behind us and it’s time to embrace t...
8 years ago by Usha 2 minutes
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Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy
Children with special needs almost always have issues in their play. During initial assessment in speech – language therapy, play is the first thing we observe. As Plato once said: “You can discov...
8 years ago by Jona 3 minutes
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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 Freya 2 minutes
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy,Therapeutic Play
“Good morning, Audrey is sick today and won’t be coming to school today *sigh* ” – parent “Oh dear! Thats the 3rd time this term. Hope she gets well soon and you take car...
8 years ago by Yee Lee 2 minutes
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Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy,Therapeutic Play
A behaviour of a child or an adult can be influenced by the context of the environment they are placed in. Problem behaviours can be a consequence of being faced with a challenging or unpleasant envir...
8 years ago by Usha 2 minutes
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School Readiness Programme,Social Skills Training
Hello! I am back with another blog in the Art series. I will have to admit that this topic has been a revelation for me too! I was researching on ways and means to take easy and quick class notes for ...
8 years ago by Kokila 2 minutes
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