HeadStart for Life

Simple Tips to Help Your Child Be Handwriting-Ready

Hello! Welcome back to Beyond Therapy. This week, I would like to share some tips on how to support your child’s development of handwriting skills. Many parents are concerned with handwriting

5 years ago by Jesline 2 minutes

If They Can Do It, Why Can’t I?

Hello, everyone! Welcome back to HeadStart For Life’s blog, Beyond Therapy! In my previous blog entry, we discussed bringing math lessons out to the real world. Today, we will be discussing the diff

5 years ago by Vivien 2 minutes

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 Freya 2 minutes

Comparative Thinking

Hi friends! I am back with another HeadStart blog related to numeracy skills for our budding mathematicians! Today I will be discussing about the need for comparative thinking skills in early numeracy

6 years ago by Kokila 2 minutes

Fun Educational App to facilitate Language Development

Hi everyone! Welcome back to Beyond Therapy – HeadStart for Life’s blog! We hope that our blog posts have been informative in helping you understand your child’s development. In our

6 years ago by Jia Yue 2 minutes

Building Blocks for Writing Skills

Hi! Welcome to Beyond Therapy, HeadStart for Life’s blog to enrich your parenting journey with your little ones. Watching your child grow is one of the most treasured experience in parents’ li

6 years ago by Vrishali 2 minutes

Meaningful Maths

Hi friends! I am back on Headstart for Life’s blog Beyond Therapy with my first post this year! And I am excited to discuss a new series – Meaningful Maths in the early years! We have num

7 years ago by Kokila 1 minute

Fun Ways to Work with Your Child’s Speech – Part II

Hi there! It’s great to have you back at HeadStart For Life’s Blog, Beyond Therapy! In our previous blog post, we introduced a couple of activities that you can have fun together with

7 years ago by Danica 2 minutes

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 Freya 2 minutes

Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy

Fun Ways to Work with Your Child’s Speech – Part I

“My child just won’t sit still and say the sounds that I want him to. It’s so hard.” Does this resonate with you? I often hear this feedback from the parents of childr

7 years ago by Danica 2 minutes

Getting the most out of your toys: Part 2

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

Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy

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 Freya 2 minutes

Getting the most out of your toys: Part 1

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

Occupational Therapy,School Readiness Programme

Art and Visual Spatial Intelligence

In today’s post, we look at the link between Art and “Visual Spatial thinking”. Visual Spatial thinking “finds meaning in the shape, size, orientation, location, direction or trajectory, of o

8 years ago by Kokila 2 minutes

5 Art Projects for Kids with Sensory Issues

Hello! I hope you liked my post on Art and Perspective! I love Art! So I am here again to give you 5 ideas on art projects for kids with sensory issues! Art is an expression of creative skill and imag

8 years ago by Kokila 2 minutes

School Readiness Programme,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 Freya 3 minutes

Art & Perspectives

What is the meaning of Perspective ? You may find familiar, the images of two straight lines (of equal length) and a candlestick or wine glass (or two faces) show us that things are often not

8 years ago by Kokila 2 minutes

Social Skills Training,Speech Therapy

5 Pretend Play Ideas Using Homemade Toys

As a Speech Therapist, one of the areas that we look into when we see a child for assessment is their level of play. Play is often dismissed as having no academic value. However, research has found t

8 years ago by Jona 3 minutes