At Move and Play, ‘therapy’ is any activity that is done by one of our team that will support or contribute to supporting your child and family to work towards their goals, and ultimately to help your child to move, play, develop new skills, participate in their daily life, and thrive in their community. [...]
It can be easy to live life in the day to day. Focusing on what is happening right now, on what needs to happen this hour, this day, this week, this term. It can be easy to keep our head down, and forget to lift our head up to see where we are going, [...]
How to help your child to achieve their goals during the COVID-19 pandemic 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' Well, hasn’t a lot changed in just one week! The rapid spread of the [...]
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' Children, assuming they all have healthy bodies and no underlying conditions that might impact their development, all tend to follow a reasonably similar pattern of development over [...]
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 [...]
B is for ‘Being Aware’ (and getting help early) A few weeks ago, I introduced to you the BRAVE model – 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 (you can find that blog post here). [...]
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' With one of our biannual Paediatric Rehab outreach clinics coming up just next week, we thought it would be timely to share some information about the ins [...]
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 [...]