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Supporting Your Child's Wellbeing
Many kids are struggling with the reality of reduced activities during lockdowns, but it can be especially challenging for children with attention deficit issues. These fun, high energy activities might help bust the boredom.
Meditations and mindfulness can help bring some calm and peace during otherwise stressful times. Smiling Minds is a child-focused app delivering calming meditations for children.
Supporting Your Child's Learning
This infographic has some helpful tips for supporting learning at home for children with additional learning needs.
Although the ADHD brain seems to run a million miles an hour, it gets easily fatigued (probably because it’s running a million miles an hour!). Frequent breaks are a must to refresh and re-engage. Even if your child isn’t struggling, frequent breaks can keep things moving forward at a steady pace and is a good practice for brain health.
Movement breaks are vital for all children. Check out this page full of rather silly and fun movement breaks for kids (and adults too).
Parenting Support
ADDitude Magazine has a weath of great articles to help support parents of children with ADD, ADHD and ODD. They also promote many free parenting webinars.
Sue Larkey's website has so many helpful resources for parents and teachers of children with ASD.
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