by Dancing Wombat | Mar 9, 2018 | Blog, Health and Fitness, Sensory Issues
Are your children fussy eaters? Yes! Are your efforts to disguise vegetables in mashed potato and fritters failing? Yes! Are doormats the only fibre they regularly touch? Yes! The list could go on. I’m sure you have your own. You’re probably all thinking, “Been there,...
by Dancing Wombat | Dec 12, 2017 | Achievements, Blog, Health and Fitness, Life Skills, Sensory Issues
Opportunities for special needs kids (and adults) to get involved in mainstream sports are limited, although you mightn’t think so from all the media promotion and sports groups out there. So I’ve always been keen to encourage my daughter to participate in...
by Dancing Wombat | Apr 14, 2017 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies, Sensory Issues
The play therapist looked at me in astonishment. “That was better than last time,” she commented, in the understatement of the year. “Last time”, Dancing Wombat was being held down on her hospital bed while the anaesthetist administered the anaesthetic via her oxygen...
by Dancing Wombat | Apr 2, 2017 | Behaviour and Communication, Blog, Coping Strategies, Sensory Issues
Some of our special needs kids have more anaesthesia in a year than we will have in our lifetime. Some of them deal well with the process. Others might always struggle. Then there’s the in-between group, who sometimes manage, and sometimes don’t. My daughter belongs...
by Dancing Wombat | Mar 26, 2017 | Blog, Health and Fitness, Sensory Issues
The “nose-teeth” connection Dancing Wombat was in hospital recently. She had an operation on her nose to help her stop grinding her teeth during her sleep, among other things. However, she only had this operation due to a chance conversation I had with my dentist late...
by Dancing Wombat | Nov 30, 2016 | Blog, Learning Through Performance, Life Skills, Sensory Issues, Socialisation
Shopping at the supermarket is a pretty basic life skill, which many kids pick up automatically, from immersion and casual observation. Other children benefit from more deliberate modelling. However, some – like Dancing Wombat – need frequent, purposeful and...
