Mandalas as Art Therapy
Mandala comes from the Sanskrit word which means sacred circle . The primary objective of creating a mandala is to promote serenity and reflection. These beautiful geometric designs have been…
PTSD, COVID, WAR and SCHOOLCHILDREN.
In the ordinary everyday experiences of life children may encounter very stressful events that affect how they think and feel. Most of the time, children recover quickly and well. However, Covid…
Using Therapeutic Interventions as Pain Relief instead of drugs
For many years I was head of a special school for students with PMLD and Complex Needs. Some of our students had a low pain threshold due to their medical…
Sensory Processing issues
Sensory Processing Issues
If you sever the ophthalmic from the trigiminal nerve ,from beak to brain of a pigeon then the pigeon can no longer follow the magnetic field . This correlates with…
Do therapies and technological interventions work for students who are neurodivergent ?
Lets get it straight first of all , you do not have to have autism to be neurodivergent. As long as you are not neurotypical then you are neurodiverse. Neurodiversity…