R is for ‘Recognising your child’s needs’ Welcome to our post covering the second part of the BRAVE model? To recap: The BRAVE model is a model I developed for parents to help them to understand their child’s needs, and how they can support their child to live their best life. I am writing [...]
In case you are reading our blog for the first time, I would like to introduce myself. My name is Emily Hayles, and I am a physiotherapist and the founder of Move and Play Paediatric Therapy, a children’s therapy service based in Mackay, Queensland. We help children with developmental delays and disabilities learn to [...]
How to set therapy goals that are meaningful and measurable Written by Emily Hayles - Physiotherapist and Owner, and author of 'Braver than you think: How to help your child with a disability live their best life' Setting goals is a natural part of the therapy process. Goals give you something to work towards [...]
Written by Emily Hayles - Physiotherapist and Owner, and author of 'Braver than you think: How to help your child with a disability live their best life' When a child is not meeting their motor milestones like their peers, is slow in their development, or has been diagnosed with a disability – amongst other [...]
Learning to ride a bike can be an exciting and scary time for both children and their families. Bike riding is an excellent opportunity for your child to participate in physical activity and develop healthy, lifelong habits. As a result, many children and their families select riding a bike as a goal or milestone [...]
What is an Occupational Therapist (OT)? And how do they help children? This blog post aims to explore 10 different things that an OT might be able to help your child. Play skills: Play skills are essential to a child’s physical, social and emotional development. OT’s can work with your child to [...]
As parents, I think most of us would share a similar goal for our children – that they grow up to be as healthy and as happy as they can be. So, we read books to them, we sing songs with them, and we try to get them to eat their veggies (sometimes successfully, [...]
Learning to jump is an exciting and fun milestone in your child’s life! Learning to jump will help your child to keep up and participate with their friends in sports and other physical play, which gives them lifelong opportunities for fitness and socialising. As a result, jumping is an important milestone that we often [...]
If you or someone in your family has naturally flexible joints, then it is possible that your child will too. Extra flexible joints can be referred to as hypermobile joints, which means that they stretch further than normally expected. Sometimes people might also refer to these joints as ‘double jointed’ (to be clear, there [...]
There are 3 different types of ‘flattened head shapes’. Plagiocephaly is the most common type of head shape change seen in babies; Brachycephaly and Scaphocephaly sometimes occur, but are less common. Plagiocephaly occurs when there is flattening on the back of the head off to one side, towards the left or right side of [...]