Children have difficulty understanding social cues, pragmatics, facial expressions and/ or body language of others. Children who have social communication difficulties display the following behaviours in all settings: do not know how or have difficulty interacting with family, friends and caregivers have minimal or no eye contact difficulty showing and reading facial expressions do not show or understand body language/gestures…
Trauma, unpleasant situations in school or family struggles may lead to emotional difficulties. Children may begin to withdraw, isolate themselves or display disruptive and/or disturbing behaviours towards towards themselves, their friends and families. Children who have emotional difficulties display the following behaviours in all or certain settings: tell lies put the blame on others always looking sad or angry bully,…
It is common for young children to be naughty, defiant or impulsive from time to time. However, some children may have extremely difficult and challenging behaviours that are not appropriate for their biological age. Some children may be well behaved in certain settings (e.g. in school or public places) and display certain inappropriate behaviour in another setting (e.g. at home).…
What are the signs and symptoms of Sensory Motor Integration Dysfunction or Sensory Processing Disorder? Child displays the following signs and symptoms: behaviour issues: distractible, withdrawing when touched, avoid certain textures, clothes, foods fearful reaction to ordinary movement activities, like playground play sensitive to loud noise may feel nausea and/or disorientation when they move, when their feet leave the ground,…
What are the signs and symptoms of Global Development Delay? Child displays the following signs and symptoms: delayed in achieving milestones for most, if not all, of these developmental domains gross and fine motor skills speech and language cognition social communication and self-concept daily activities or self-help skills impairment of most of the domains results in the delay in development…
What are the signs and symptoms of Dysgraphia? Child displays the following signs and symptoms poor handwriting (messy) and fine motor skills difficulty in forming letters or spacing words in writing awkward or painful pencil grip struggle to follow a line or stay within the lines when writing poor in sentence structure when writing but not speaking big gap between…
Did You Know? Many children are misdiagnosed as having ASD or go undetected when co-existing root learning difficulties are ignored as LDs are viewed rigidly in categories or isolated labels only. Generally, sensory motor integration dysfunction and/ or combined with auditory processing (processing sounds) and/ or visual processing with social communication difficulties may be mistaken as autism. Sensory Motor Integration…