Be ADHD Smart
Did you know that ADHD isn't really about a lack of focus? It's about challenges regulating focus. That's an important difference. People with...
22 May, 2019
4 Parenting Books: Where to Start and Which One is Best for Your Family?
When babies grow to become toddlers and then preschoolers, new challenges can arise. Getting children to cooperate when leaving the house, to play...
27 August, 2018
Sensory Diets
When people hear the word “diet” they think about better eating habits and a healthy lifestyle. Similar to food based diets, where one...
10 August, 2018
Five Ways To Fit Mindfulness Into A Busy Routine
For kids with ADHD/ADD, it’s easy for their minds to wander to other things, especially when completing tasks they find challenging or less...
19 July, 2018
Improve Your Child’s Reading Through Direct Instruction
I remember watching all the other kids skip rope. It looked so easy for them, yet no matter how hard I tried I...
11 July, 2018
POSSIBILITIES PICK
What to Do When Mistakes Make You Quake: A Kid’s Guide to Accepting Imperfection Claire A.B. Freeland, Ph.D. & Jacqueline B. Toner, Ph.D., Authors Janet...
14 June, 2018
The Memory Mullet: ‘Business in Front’ meet ‘Party in Back’
If you’re an adult of a certain vintage, you probably remember the mullet. It’s a hairstyle that’s hard to forget. The hairstyle of...
30 May, 2018
Spring Into Speech
As we approach May (which happens to be Speech and Hearing Month), the weather is finally starting to feel like spring! When I...
11 May, 2018
How To Optimize Development While Waiting for an Assessment or Therapy
When I see families for assessment of development, learning, attention or behaviour, many recommendations are patient- and condition-specific. However, others are useful for...
16 April, 2018
Hair-Pulling, Skin-Picking, and Other Repetitive Behaviours: Can the cycle be broken?
Max is 14 years old. Max has been picking at the skin around his fingernails for two years, particularly when he is stressed,...
16 March, 2018