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Tag Archives: anxiety
Webinar on Wed 27.4.21 at the Bell House
Before Covid I was talking about the importance of sleep-breathing-calm for Neurodivergent students. Now the focus is on emotional wellbeing for everyone, these skills are even more valuable. I am running a webinar for The Bell House on Wednesday, just … Continue reading
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Tagged #mentalimagery, #theelephantsintheclassroom, ADHD, anxiety, ASD, breathing, dyslexia, grounded, safety, sleep, strengths, templegrandin
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“I wish I had known more when my child was little……”
………I could have saved so much pain for her and me. Parents often say comments like this and this picture sums it up, for me. It isn’t until they get older that it becomes easier to see what is happening. … Continue reading
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Tagged #sleep, ADHD, anxiety, ASD, breathing, dyslexia, grounded, mentalimagery, safety, strengths, templegrandin, theelephantsintheclassroom
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ADHD / Dyslexia Awareness month starts today – here are 3 secrets
To start our month of great Dyslexia and ADHD success stories, I want to give you the 3 secrets we have discovered to significantly address poor literacy, inattention, impulsivity, hyperactivity, drowsiness, irritability and low self-esteem. These will be demonstrated with … Continue reading
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Tagged ADHD, ANS, anxiety, breathing, dyslexia, Dyslexic, mentalimagery, trauma
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Changing Dyslexia for a new decade
. Whilst so many children are being home schooled parents are having all sorts of challenges and are often realising just how much their children are struggling with literacy. This is an offer to you to take a different perspective … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, dyslexia, dyslexiaforanewdecade, empoweringlearning, neurodivergent, phonics, reading, spelling, wordrecognition
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6 steps to improve the wellbeing of your airways
Today I want to mention the wellbeing of our airways. It seems obvious to me that we should all attempt to look after those delicate airways that enable us to breathe and are so vital for supporting life. Good breathing … Continue reading
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Tagged airways, anxiety, breathing, covid-19, intassoc, nosebreathing, smoking
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How can we best serve neurodivergent students, their families and schools?
What would it be like if every primary school had a Neurodivergent School Coach (NSC), who championed appropriate teaching and learning for neurodivergent students? With the current growth of learning differences/difficulties, the existing solution of assessment and teaching neurodivergent students … Continue reading
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Tagged #theelephantsintheclassroom, anxiety, behaviour, empoweringlearning, neurodivergent, neurotypical, schoolcoach, SEN
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Separation anxiety – online training Webinar
I think you might be interested in this on-line training from NLP4kids. Anxiety is so often co-morbid with the work Empowering Learning does with neurodivergent students on learning differences, I highly recommend this session. Click here to … Continue reading
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48XXYY children take to improving literacy through mental imagery
In May I was asked to speak at the 1st 48XXYY Conference in the UK, organised by the amazing #JocelynEldridge; an amazing 3 days, full of useful information. I worked with some of the boys in mini-workshops, teaching them how … Continue reading
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Connection between Dementia and anxiety medication
This week several paper covered the story of a link between anxiety medication and Dementia. According to a Harvard study people could be 50% more at risk of developing Dementia. Here are a couple of the articles; NHS choices, the … Continue reading
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Tagged anxiety, Dementia, help for carers, medication, NHS, Telegraph
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