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Win How to Help your Dyslexic and Dyspraxic Child
How to Help your Dyslexic and Dyspraxic Child provides parents with practical information on the subject and gives you helpful tips and advice – from understanding and recognising the symptoms, to getting support from schools and other networks. This guide uses real-life experiences to give essential advice to parents to develop and nurture your child.…
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Tagged competitions, Competitions for grown ups, dyslexia, dyspraxia
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How your baby’s brain develops
Nancy Slessenger, a brain expert, explains how your baby’s brain continually grows and develops throughout pregnancy and explains why diet and the lifestyle choices that you make can have such an impact upon your unborn child. The anticipation that a pregnant woman experiences whilst awaiting the birth of her child can be excruciating: counting down the weeks, estimating…
Posted in Baby, Baby Development, Child Development
Tagged Baby, baby development, Birth, Boy, Brain, Central nervous system, Child development, dyslexia, Girl, Language, Motor skills, Pregnancy, womb
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Toddler : reading books
As your baby grows into a toddler he will take more interest in the pictures and story when you read to him. Reading together, talking, singing songs and saying rhymes will all reinforce his interest in books and start to develop the desire to discover what the words on the page mean. As your child’s concentration grows, you…
Posted in Books for parents
Tagged dyslexia, Linguistics, Orthography, Reading, Toddler, Writing systems
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Raising a child with autism, asperger’s syndrome and ADHD
Elaine Carey talks about bringing up two boys who have lie on the Autistic Spectrum which include Asperger’s syndrome and ADHD. Diagnosing my boys I have three children, two boys and one girl. The two boys lie on the autistic spectrum, which consists of autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, high functioning autism, ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder), ADD (Attention…
Explaining Dyspraxia
Dyspraxia, also known as developmental co-ordination disorder, is a disability that affects movement and co-ordination. It is thought to be caused by a disruption in the way messages from the brain are transmitted to the body. Dyspraxia is characterised by difficulty in planning smooth, co-ordinated movements. This leads to: clumsiness lack of co-ordination problems with language, perception and thought…
Win one of two deluxe kits from ‘Your Baby Can Read’
It’s Fun, It’s Colourful and it Works Your Baby Really Can Read! Did you know children as young as nine months are reading with “Your Baby Can Read”? Learning to read can be fun, not a chore and it’s really just playing with words. ‘Your Baby Can Read!’ is a programme which uses associations to get babies reading. It…
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Tagged Deluxe, Deluxe Corporation, dyslexia, fun learning tool, Linguistics, Orthography, Reading, Writing systems
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Mum and Dad of the year
17 September 2001 Two single parents have won the top prizes in the Mum and Dad of the year competition. The awards were organised by That’s Life magazine and each of the two top entrants has won a cheque for £3,000. Both of the winners were singled out for their persistence and courage at dealing…
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Tagged Developmental dyspraxia, dyslexia, Dyspraxia Foundation, Gareth, Gareth Jones, Marcus, Parenting, Stay-at-home dad, That's Life
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