Children’s Choice Therapy Centre open events

Children’s Choice Therapy Service Ltd are a group of specialist Occupational Therapists (including sensory integration accredited therapists), who provide independent services to special and main stream schools, health and social care as well as charities and individuals.  

Children’s Choice Therapy Centre is a new unit providing assessment, treatment and training.  The centre includes training facilities, opportunity for group work, specialist Occupational Therapy, and a full Sensory Integration based Occupational Therapy treatment room (built in association with ‘Spacekraft’ – sensory equipment providers).  This gives us the opportunity for more complex assessments and interventions, and to train and work alongside carers and parents to help embed treatment principles in to daily life to impact the child’s / young person’s every day tasks.

All are very welcome to attend / drop in on our open events, to see this new facility, and to learn more about our services.

Friday April 8^th: 3pm – 6pm

Saturday April 9^th: 2pm – 4pm

11D Lancaster Park

Needwood

Staffs

DE13 9PD

  

Alison Hart,

Sarah Sheffield, Samantha Armitage, Jessica Quinn, Sandra Town,

Mel Homan, Kikidyn Matemba-Belli

childrenschoicetherapy@gmail.com

www.childrenschoicetherapy.co.uk

07855234668

Makes me so sad........

One of the things we do at Small Talk, is to see children who are having behaviour issues at school or at home and people are seeking the answer as to why they behave as they do.

It's so sad how so many children are being misunderstood. Time and time again, we see this scenario: 

The child who doesn't understand social clues and cues, may not be good at reading facial expressions, doesn't understand abstract language such as sarcasm, or people's intentions. They probably don't always remember that they need to modify their language according to the listener i.e. you don't talk to the teacher like you would your mum. They develop a strong sense of right and wrong to help them cope. They may be aware of their difficulties and be anxious.

Then, at lunchtime, someone knocks into them, they refuse to say sorry as it was 'an accident', they may try to explain that or just run off laughing. The child knows that you must tell if someone does something wrong but is sent away by the dinner lady or teacher on duty as 'he didn't mean it'. This upsets the child who gets more frustrated and wants to get his point across. He ends up shouting at the member of staff and is then sent to the headteacher. He is really fed up, frustrated and down right angry, so shouts at the headteacher too....... result: excluded for the next 2 days!

These children may be on the autistic spectrum but they might not. Social understanding is hard for many children.

The solution is simple:

1. A Social thinking programme with behaviour mapping for the child (Garcia Winner)
2. Training for staff

Why is that so hard to understand?