It is the Youth Sport’s Trust’s National School Sports week! Our Children’s Physiotherapy team are encouraging children with all levels of ability to join in with sport and are ensuring all children are included in school PE by advising schools about adaptations for...
Two experienced children’s physiotherapists have published a book aimed at preschool and reception children, to help develop their foundation movement skills. The concept is called ‘storycises’ and the books are designed to be read out and the actions followed by...
Two researchers from Vanderbilt University, Megan Roberts and Ann Kaiser, reviewed 18 different studies which evaluated parent-implemented intervention offered to groups of parents. T The authors begin their article by citing research that shows that children’s...
The BBC have recently highlighted the impact of lockdown on the development of children’s speech and language – click here for the full article. If you are concerned about your child’s speech development, please see our ‘ages and stages’ information on speech sounds...
The below video has been created to celebrate World Autism Awareness Day. The includes how to move beyond awareness to improve understanding, build inclusion and create acceptance. Watch the video here.
There is free online learning about Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) available for parents and teachers at the following website http://elearningcanchild.ca/dcd_workshop/related-conditions.html ‘ The most common conditions that can occur with DCD are:...
Most of our deployed staff have now returned to children’s services and we will be restoring our services over the coming months following their partial suspension. As you will appreciate, we have a large backlog of work due to the recent Covid suspensions and...
Essex County Council are launching a virtual format of the popular ‘Good Beginnings’ courses for parents/carers of preschool children who have autism or social communication difficulties. For more information, please go to...
The majority of Provide’s children’s therapy services continue to be partially suspended whilst our staff are deployed to support the NHS COVID-19 response in mid-Essex. The services have continued to support children within the areas detailed below as much as...
The Teapot Trust is a charity which provides art therapy to help support children and young people with chronic conditions. For more details, please click here. They are setting up an online group for children with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis, aged 8-11yrs, to run...
