Professional sporting and Paralympics

Today we discussed what modified and accessible sports are available to families who might be feeling motivated after watching the Paralympics.

If your child has an interest and enjoys or has friends already playing a sport they want to play with, then you can start there. Do they like throwing a ball, bouncing a ball, kicking a ball, swimming? There will be an adapted version of the sport for them or your team can help you make adaptations to suit your child, you can then include building skills for this sport into therapy sessions if your child wishes to.

What is the perfect balance of therapy and school?

On today's podcast Dayna and I discuss what the ideal balance could look like once your child starts school or daycare.

Being told it was time to slow down on therapy and let our child be a child was an important permission I needed to alleviate the parental guilt associated with reducing the therapy schedule, changing the therapist’s role and knowing there was research behind the advice was so important to us.

Starting school presented the same challenges as after school therapy sessions just weren't working for us. I share how we needed to take a different approach and how we utilised our incredible therapy team to support our child at school which has worked really well for our situation and our school.

We hope you find this informative and helpful, if you have any questions or feedback on this topic or any other topics please let us know, we love hearing from you!

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This was another really important topic we discussed today as it's a question we get a lot in the clinic and that is about sending a child with a neurodisability to daycare.

There are many reasons a family will send a child to daycare, so the parents can work or get some respite or it may be to socialise their child. Dayna and I discuss the benefits and importance in some circumstances of sending a child with a neurodisability to daycare and how to find the right daycare for your family.

The biggest advantage to children attending daycare is the social connections, learning to play, taking turns, being around children of the same age, play with children of the same age is integral to a child's development. Daycare's are a great facilitator for play and general development on all levels.

We discuss how beneficial our family found daycare for my child, what challenges we faced when it came to getting our child into daycare and how we knew it was the right place for our family.

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