In April this year, High Hopes completed our first Stepping Stones Triple P parenting workshop series. This was accessed by families and professionals alike. In…
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Defying Gravity: Understanding and Treating Children with Low Muscle tone
Think about how it feels to hold your child when they are fast asleep versus when they are clinging to you. The more activation, the…
Partial body-weight support training (PBWS): a good strategy for walking training in neuropediatrics
Partial body weight support (PBWS) training is an evidence-based approach for walking training of children with neuromotor disorders (Novak et al., 2020) that uses task-specific…
Where to begin with early literacy
This article is part of a continuing series about Cortical Visual Impairment. We’ve got to stop thinking that there’s a group of people who have…
Importance of Early Detection and Intervention of Autism Spectrum Disorder
Early diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder has generated big debates over the past decade. Some professionals find it inappropriate to “label” young children, when there…
Dystonia in Cerebral Palsy
If there was anything that I could use my magic wand on, to make it work better, it would be to treat Dystonia in Cerebral…
How to Raise a Bilingual Child?
“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.” – Ludwig Wittgenstein According to “The Handbook of Bilingualism”, “Bilingualism – more generally, multilingualism…
Sensory Processing and Complex Needs
We are sensory beings. No matter which way you look at it, we need our sensory systems to make sense of ourselves and the world…
Rare Disease Awareness Day
Worldwide scientific researches, especially in the genetic field, have identified a considerable number of new disorders, or have labeled some of those that do not…
One word at a time: A literacy approach for children with CVI
Cortical Visual Impairment affects the brain’s ability to process what the eyes are seeing. One of the central characteristics of CVI is visual complexity. Children…