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.

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).

Screening children for the various therapies we run is a critical aspect of our work. Sometimes, parents are curious about their child and want to understand why their child behaves in what they perceive to be 'strange behaviour!'

When someone has poor vision, an optician help corrects their focusing ability so they can compensate for this particular deficiency.…..When spelling, you need to pay particular attention to the letter configuration - especially when the word being spelt is not phonetically obvious and you need to memorize the order of letters. All of these skills require correct eye-tracking.

There are many schools of thought regarding writing, not least if a child should be taught cursive handwriting in their reception year, or if this is a secondary skill which should be taken on later.

As more and more children enter the reception year with poor fine motor skills, parents are concerned that the demand on their child is too great.

This is quite a common error children make when writing numbers. They understand the difference between 12 and 21 as number, and can usually count correctly without jumping numbers, but struggle when it comes to writing these numbers down properly

Stress and anxiety about studying maths is very common among children of all ages. You might even remember yourself struggling with it at school, or maybe you found a way to get to grips with it.

Tennis is seldom played quietly, and the players make grunting sounds as they hit difficult volleys across the net. This is a great example of how we link actions of our hands and mouths together when we perform an activity.

If your child is has graduated from nursery and is now going to start primary school, and you're worried about their lack of interest in holding a pencil, crayon, or paintbrush, this post is for you.

A few years ago, when my daughter was a mere five years old, we used to get home from school, and after a snack and drink, we would sit at the coffee table and do handwriting practice. She hated handwriting practice with a real passion

Not all children establish a hand preference by age 5.

If a child cannot decide which hand to use, it is a big problem, and we cannot just force the infant to write with a particular hand; it has to fall into place naturally.

Is your child at risk of having dyslexia? Are you worried they are falling behind at schoo? Being concerned about academic progress due to possible dyslexia or neurodivergance is something we pay special attention to.

Hands-up if you are a parent who has been working with your child for over three terms on the same spellings? In fact, some children may spend years working on the same words.

Learning is not something children do at school, parents are their best teachers.

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.