News

“What’s been happening over the last few weeks?” Pen pals Well, this has been a great hit with our children. We have six children taking part in this and we hope it will encourage them to enjoy handwriting/drawing by sending small messages to each other. Christmas Competition I know this is early but we have…

One of our colleagues was just saying her thumb was hurting when writing. So, we set her the task of pressing her thumb into the squeeze ball for several seconds, releasing, then repeating this several times. We told her to do this daily as it would build up the muscles in her thumb. After a…

If anyone is looking to book an assessment or treatment, we have one or two spaces left for September and October. We are also looking to book any top-up sessions too (one-offs) so please contact us asap before the slots disappear. Don’t forget we can help with all sorts of difficulties such as some of…

Help our Sensory Processing Disorder Parent Support Group reach their goal! Any blue tokens you receive when shopping, the group have said they would welcome anyone putting their tokens in the SPD Parent Support Group’s slot. They are hoping to arrange some exciting training events for the whole group! Vote for them if you can!…

Welcome to our new “Get Writing” campaign – the Tree Tops pen pals!   A great idea to practice handwriting is to go back to the old fashioned method of ‘writing a letter’ (no cheating on the computer). So, two of our youngsters have teamed up (with parental permission) and are writing to each other!…

Want to help build your child’s hand strength? Try some of these tips. Do they enjoy using building blocks? Get your child to snap them together and have resistance to being pulled apart Do they like playing with water? (Maybe not today though!) Squirty toys and bottles that require squeezing to spray water. Put some…

Well, the weather is just lovely so why not get outside with some bubbles to help oral motor and speech. You could even try the following activities! * Blowing bubbles * Blowing through a straw items such as paper ball, ping pong ball, feathers * Try blowing toys such as whistles * Sucking in through…

Great News! Our parent support group have been chosen by the Tesco #BagsofHelp initiative @Tesco_North for 1 September – 31 October 2017. This is to gain vital funding to help the families understand SPD. If you would like to help them, please tweet the following from now until 31 October:- Vote in Tesco stores during…

When my child uses a trampoline they get quite hyper. Is this normal and if not, how to do I stop this?   This is quite important for those who use trampolines. A trampoline can make a child’s arousal levels heighten so to calm them down, don’t let them use it for very long (one…

Here is one of our young gentlemen having a spot of clay pigeon shooting at the weekend with none other than our baby teddy bear! Another couple of suggestions we would make for today are:- * Arm spirals – these help build up the child’s upper limb which also aids handwriting! * Balloon ping pong…