The Structured Spectrum

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

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

Exercise, sleep, and screen time – how much do kids need? 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.

Happy Harmony Week 🧡

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

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

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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.

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:

The day I met the Feelingtons 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...