We cannot expect parents to be with their children every waking hour. There are always important chores, such as cooking or laundry, and many parents have to juggle all this with work. Modern life is very demanding. Children are starting nursery without…….

Balance, Auditory Vision Exercises (Bal-A-Vis-X) is a programme from America developed by founder Bill Hubert. The workshops are now available in the UK

When I started working together with seven year old Kiran, I knew I had taken on a big challenge. Our initial sessions would entail a lot of resistance and crying for no apparent reason. Things changed when I started using Bal-A-Vis-X

There is nothing more annoying than when you read badly punctuated sentences. We should all have a pen handy when we see lousy punctuation.

Beta is a 'fast' activity, present when we are alert, attentive, engaged in problem solving, judgment, decision making, or other focused mental activity – find out how Bal-A-Vis-X helps beta brainwave activity.

Motor planning is the ability of the body to create movement so we can perform a task. When playing with mobiles, babies will thrash their arms and legs on seeing the suspending toy. They aim for the toy but do not grab it.

Not all children establish a hand preference by age 5.

If a child cannot decide which hand to use, it is a big problem, and we cannot just force the infant to write with a particular hand; it has to fall into place naturally.

Parents notice all sorts of things about their children, and one thing that crops up time and time again is that they are worried about their child’s awkwardness and problems with co-ordination.

I am the first to admit I am not the biggest football fan. After the allocated 90 minutes of play and no overall winner, I blurted out “oh! they will go into 'overtime!’” My child's eyes rolled, and my family corrected me to 'NOooo! EXTRA TIME!'

I am so confused because I take him to the optician to get his eye checked regularly….

Do you ever have that itch to jump to the next most fascinating book and can't wait to finish the current book, regardless of how good it is?

Can you do the  ‘The Floss dance?’

A parent came to me, shocked to hear the evaluation for her daughter.

In November 2017 I met Eemaan, a sparkly bright four-year-old with a diagnosis of Downs Syndrome, for the very first time.

Do you write with your left or right hand? This is a preference your brain and body has decided is the strongest for this particular task, it is your 'dominant hand'.