Understanding the brain
What is executive functioning, and why school exposes it
It is the difference between knowing what to do and being able to do it.
Journal
Things worth understanding
Plain explanations of how learning, behaviour and development actually work, written for parents, teachers and anyone trying to make sense of what they are seeing.
Understanding the brain
Why your child knows something one day and forgets it the next
This is the single most common thing parents say to us. There is a reason for it.
School and learning
What does a school shadow actually do?
The goal of a good shadow is to become unnecessary.
School and learning
School readiness is more than knowing the alphabet
The academic part is the part everyone prepares. It is rarely the part that goes wrong.
Behaviour
Behaviour is communication. What is it telling you?
Asking what a behaviour achieves gets you further than asking why it happened.
Everyday skills
Why handwriting is so hard for some children
Handwriting asks a lot of systems to cooperate at once. Any one of them can be the problem.
Understanding the brain
Cognitive training and tutoring are not the same thing
If more tutoring keeps producing less than you expected, this is usually why.
Getting started
You have a diagnosis. Nobody told you what to do next
The report answers the question you arrived with, and opens about nine more.
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Tell us what you are seeing and we will talk through where to start. There is no cost for the first conversation, and no obligation to book anything after it.