The Structured Spectrum

15/11/2025

The Child Development Service in Perth has launched a brand-new suite of online resources to support children and young people with attention, regulation and concentration challenges - including ADHD.

The collection includes:
📘 A series of written guides
🎥 Short videos featuring clinicians and lived-experience voices
🌏 Key resources translated into 10 languages

Topics include:

Parent education - Ways to support attention, regulation and concentration
School resources - Helping your child focus in the classroom
Home resources - Developing healthy screen time habits
ADHD resource - Talking about ADHD with your child

A fantastic step toward clearer, more accessible, evidence-based information for families.

Explore the resources on the CAHS website.

https://cahs.health.wa.gov.au/Our-services/Community-Health/Child-Development-Service/Neurodiversity/Attention-regulation-concentration

22/08/2025

Snow White and ‘cheeky’ (Mildred) the eighth dwarf 🍎 📖

26/06/2025

Balancing time spent being active, sleeping, and sitting is vital, but it can be hard to know just how much of each activity is enough.

11/05/2025

25/03/2025

21/03/2025

Happy Harmony Week 🧡

05/03/2025

A great communication board that may assist individuals with ASD experiencing Cyclone Alfred 🌀

05/03/2025

A great communication board that may assist individuals with ASD experiencing Cyclone Alfred.

09/01/2025

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20/12/2024

Stimming is purposeful.
It can be part of exploring and learning how to communicate with an AAC device. It can play a key role in helping AAC users familiarize themselves with an AAC app or device and their functionality.

 

ID: The image features a light purple background with a large dark purple quotation mark symbol at the top. Beneath it is a prominent block of text in dark purple font, which reads: “Don’t assume repeated button tapping means someone is not ready for AAC. Stimming is deeply functional. Children and adults alike may stim while working through new ideas and concepts — like how to communicate with an AAC device!”. The bottom right of the image illustrates an AAC device grid. A hand is shown tapping one of the buttons on the screen. The AssistiveWare logo is in the bottom left corner.

13/11/2024

Please support my friend Sammie’s amazing book ‘The day I met the Feelingtons’, now available to purchase on Amazon. This incredible handbook was designed to support individuals with strategies to self-regulate 👏🏻 Sammie is a fun-loving, creative, supportive, unique and inclusive educator who is kind of amazing at drawing stuff! She has used her special gifts to make a positive impact on the lives of neurodiverse individuals and their families ❤️ Would love to see many more people supporting a fantastic resource! Donate to your school library, gift to a family member/ friend or even a teacher for their own resource collection! 📚

Link:

Taking readers on a relatable journey through the emotions by introducing the fun and engaging characters 'The Feelingtons' This 'easy to take anywhere handbook' is a fantastic resource for children to understand a variety of different strategies in everyday situations. The perfect addition to yo...