Maths problem solving can be tough, even for children with strong memories. Success relies on flexible thinking, language skills, and working memory. Discover key challenges and practical ways to support your child’s maths learning journey.

Do you ever have that itch to jump to the next most fascinating book and can't wait to finish the current book, regardless of how good it is?

Can you do the  ‘The Floss dance?’

Despite years of phonics instruction in schools, many children still struggle with reading. This post explores why proper instruction matters, how to spot early signs of difficulty, like confusion with vowel sounds and what parents can do at home to support their child's reading journey.

It always surprises me how quickly a child of any school age, from 4 years upwards, can grasp this skill of solving Sudoku puzzles. It does not matter what the diagnosis is; dyslexia, dyscalculia, Asperger’s, dyspraxia… even dysgraphia

Some children learn better when doing a practical thing, rather than thinking deeply or reading about it. The act of ‘doing’ helps some children remember the task at hand.

A parent came to me, shocked to hear the evaluation for her daughter. After a two-month break from intensive occupational therap,y her 7-year-old daughter was displaying weak core strength.

In November 2017, I met Eemaan, a sparkly bright four-year-old diagnosed with Down syndrome, for the first time. Nine months from our first meeting, Eemaan is now using sentences.

Do you write with your left or right hand? This is a preference your brain and body has decided is the strongest for this particular task, it is your 'dominant hand'.

As one of those individuals who always felt at fault, continually trying to improve and iron out flaws, it was somewhat ironic that my so-called defects, dyslexia and all the issues that surround this diagnosis, were the thing that made me unique in the first place.

I was watching one of my students write the other day, and noticed countless problems with her seated position, her pencil grip, and how she was obscuring the sentence with her hand as she wrote. The effort was enormous on her part.

When children do not appear to be listening, parents often put it down to hearing problems. This blog is about understanding a condition called Auditory Processing Disorder. For those who have good hearing equipment, but have difficulty processing the information they hear.

The anterior mid-cingulated cortex, aligned with willpower…..Willpower is not an infinite resource; its depletion varies from person to person. Nevertheless, we all want to nurture this for ourselves and our children.

She had been diagnosed with both dyslexia and dysgraphia and had undergone years of therapy. Convinced his daughter had outgrown her difficulties. However, when she began preparing for her GCSEs, she found she couldn't cope.

Interactive Metronome (IM) is an evidence-based programme that trains the brain's internal timing system to improve attention, coordination, and self-regulation.

Autistic Spectrum Disorders can vary greatly, and children will need to be diagnosed by a medical professional. More confusing is if that child has two or more co-existing conditions such as ADHD and Autism. AuADHD is the abbreviation for an individual with both of these conditions.

In an early conversation with the father of one of my students, he mentioned that his son, James, always wanted things to be perfect. Perfectionism was a crippling trait for James, who suffered from several co-existing conditions of; dyscalculia, dyslexia and developmental coordination disorder (DCD).

It is not uncommon for parents to want to talk about other problems and another child unrelated to the topic I had presented.

These parents revealed that their older daughter, Molly, was seven years old and struggling at school… "She seemed so advanced for her age when she started school."

As a parent, I remember waiting outside the portacabins that housed the overspill from years 4 to 6. The shrubbery that enveloped the cabins was never tall enough to provide shade from the heat. One summer, a quiet then 8-year-old Alex ate a berry from those shrubs and got a nasty bout of food poisoning - the offending shrubbery was duly chopped down.

Putting a child to bed at 7:30 pm doesn't mean they'll be asleep by then. Many parents say bedtime routines take ages—bath time, a story (or reading), and then waiting for their child to drift off. An hour later, they check in and find their child still wide awake!