Firstly I am not a medical doctor. The following is for informational purposes only. It may serve as a starting point if you or your child has recently been diagnosed. It should not replace any professional advice you have received. The reason I include such blogs is because of my own experiences regarding diagnosis in… Read More Understanding Epilepsy.
I found it increasing hard to write this week’s blog. As a mum of disabled children it brought up so many memories for me. Some of those memories are very hard even today. But there are also a great number of good ones. Raising a disabled child does take its toll on your mental and… Read More The Mental Health Implications Of Raising A Disabled Child.
Firstly I am not a medical doctor. The following is for informational purposes only. It may serve as a starting point if your child has recently been diagnosed. It should not replace any professional advice you have received. The reason I include such blogs is because of my own experiences regarding diagnosis in the past.… Read More Understanding Tourette Syndrome.
Firstly I am not a medical doctor. The following is for informational purposes only. It may serve as a starting point if you, or a loved one, has recently been diagnosed. It should not replace any professional advice you have received. The reason I include such blogs is because of my own experiences regarding diagnosis… Read More What Is Cystic Fibrosis?
Firstly I am not a medical doctor, the following is for informational purposes only. It may serve as a starting point if you, or a loved one, has recently been diagnosed. It should not replace any professional advice you have received. The reason I include such blogs is because of my own experiences regarding diagnosis… Read More What Is Parkinson’s Disease?
What is Dysgraphia? Dysgraphia is a neurological disorder that generally appears when children are first learning to write. Dysgraphia is a recognised specific learning disability that affects written expression. It is a hidden disability that many people and professionals don’t know about. Dysgraphia can be language based or non-language based and appears to affect spelling,… Read More What Is Dysgraphia?
What Is Aphasia/Dysphasia? Aphasia and dysphasia are terms that are interchangeably used to describe a condition that has resulted from damage to areas of the brain responsible for producing and understanding language. Dysphasia is being abandoned by some doctors as people may confuse it with Dysphagia. But you might still hear it being used to… Read More Understanding Aphasia/Dysphasia
What Is Dyscalculia? Dyscalculia is a specific learning difficulty that affects a person’s understanding of numbers and maths. It may occur with other difficulties such as Dyslexia. People with dyslexia can have a difficulty with maths due to the level of language contained in a problem. People with dyscalculia instead have a difficulty understanding simple… Read More Understanding Dyscalculia
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that affects a baby’s normal physical development and causes mild to severe learning difficulties. It usually develops when a baby is still in the womb (uterus) and affects about 1 in 1,100 births worldwide. More males are affected than females and people born with Down syndrome have a higher… Read More What Is Down Syndrome?
When we hear the word visual we automatically think about eyesight. We forget that it is the brain that carries out the visual process and interpretations. When someone has a visual processing disorder they have a problem with interpreting visual information such as symbols, pictures, distances etc., not their eyesight. People with a visual processing… Read More What Is Visual Processing Disorder? (VPD)
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