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Helping children with writing: Speech Pathology or Occupational Therapy?

June 16, 2025

Is your child finding writing hard? If you’ve ever watched your child sit down and try to write their sentences for homework, and seen their struggle, you may have wondered …

What is Visual Perception and Why Does it Matter for Your Child?

June 9, 2025

As a paediatric occupational therapist, I often see children who have difficulty processing and making sense of the visual information around them. While many people might assume that visual perception …

Engaging Children in Shared Book Reading – Information for Educators

June 2, 2025

Do you find it challenging to keep a group of children engaged when reading stories together? Shared book reading is a powerful tool for fostering language and literacy development in …

Engaging in Book Reading with Your Child

May 26, 2025

Do you find it difficult to keep your child engaged when reading together? Shared book reading is a great way to support language and literacy development, but factors like attention, …

How does problem solving develop through play?

April 28, 2025

Kids have a drive to play! Through play they learn about the world around them, explore ideas, learn how things work and test their ideas. In this joint blog, Speech …

5 park games to build motor planning & following directions

April 14, 2025

“Grab your bag and hop in the car”, “brush your teeth and put on your PJs”. Kids are told instructions all the time, and kids are moving all …

Multilingual Communication Development

March 17, 2025

Any child that regularly hears more than 1 language is considered a multilingual communicator. In this blog, Speech Pathologist Thida discusses multilingual communication development, answers some common questions, …

Why Learning to Work in Groups is Key for Kids

March 3, 2025

When we think about what kids need to succeed in life, we often focus on reading, writing, and math. But there’s one skill that’s just as important—and it’s learned through …

Language Development in the first 5 years

February 10, 2025

Language development is the process of learning to communicate through a formal system (language) to express ideas and understand others. As children grow they develop more complex language skills …

Key Skills Kindergarten Teaches Kids that prepares them for School (from an OT’s Perspective!)

February 3, 2025

Starting Kindy this year? If you’re a parent gearing up for your child to head off to kindergarten, you might be wondering what exactly they’re going to be learning that’ll …