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Learning Made Easier
by Lifespan Fundamentals
If you're a teacher or parent of children who need extra help overcoming challenges in the early years, you're in the right place. Julia Eggles and Lisa Hudson bring decades of experience to you with creative, fun and practical solutions to transform children's learning experiences for success and mastery.
Episodes
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Episode 32: Breaking Well
When you've worked hard to achieve gains for your child's development and/or learning with your therapist or teachers, it can be difficult to think about stopping. Over the years, Lisa Hudson, SLP and Julia Eggles, OTR have both had clients reluctant to take a break over the summer for fear of...
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Episode 31: Stressed For Success
Wouldn't it be lovely if we could guarantee that our children would never be stressed? No, not really! Without sufficient stress, boredom sets in and potentially depression! And when does boredom kick in the most? That's right, the looming long Christmas holidays here in the Southern Hemisphere…
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Episode 30: What's Vestibular Processing?
When parents come to me for help with their children's difficulties, very often, a vestibular processing difficulty is part of the problem. Not surprisingly, this revelation is met with a little bafflement – what, after all is the vestibular system? The vestibular sense is in constant use along...
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Epsiode 29: Food Intolerance
As long as your child is eating from each of the healthy good groups and doesn't get too much sugar they're getting what they need, right? Well in most cases, yes - but for a small group of children, those who suffer with food intolerances or sensitivities, some of those foods that are so healthy...
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Episode 28: Best Apps & Screen Time For Kids
This week, Lisa Hudson talks with her colleague, Speech Pathologist Bronwyn Sutton, principal therapist at B.E.S.T. Autism Therapy, and author of the The Learning App Guide about the perennial questions: 1. Is screen time bad for kids? 2. What apps are best for children? Bronwyn outlines key...
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Episode 27: The Best Toys For Learning
This time of the year is when parents and extended family members start asking questions about what to get the kids for Christmas. When they're in our care naturally parents are looking for games and toys to help achieve their children's goals – so in turn Lisa and I as developmental therapists…
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Episode 26: Dancing To Learn
Being involved in a dance class has a myriad of benefits for young children, not all of them physical. In this episode Julia Eggles is speaking with Anita Kertland, from Spring Pointe. She has a passion for teaching children between the ages of 3-5 pre-ballet skills, and brings with her the…
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Episode 25: Tantrums or Meltdowns?
In our first podcast of the final term of the year we're taking a look at those challenging tantrums or are they meltdowns? And does it matter? Development of the ability to regulate emotions and manage frustration and disappointment is a lifelong process - some of us do it better than others!...
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Episode 24: Tuning In Just Right
We want our children switched on and connected in a "just right state" for learning - with a gleam in their eyes, open, curious and connected...as a therapist that's certainly where Occupation Therapist, Julia Eggles always starts! Music can be a great way to help children "tune in" - but some...
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Episode 23: So Touchy!
The sense of touch protects is vital for health, well-being and function. In children, when tactile processing is distorted so that ordinary, everyday experience becomes irritating or even painful, it impacts on self-regulation for learning, development and maintenance of relationships with…
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Episode 22: Finding A Better Way
We were disturbed to learn how low the Australian Adult literacy levels. Far too many adults have less than functional literacy and many claim that they lost their way in their early learning. We clearly need to find a better way - one that moves beyond simply do more of what is hard hoping that...
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Episode 21: Stepping Up
From the moment our babies are born, we look forward to some key milestones – their first smile, their first words, their first step. Concerns about the timing of skill acquisition are common in the early years, and none more so than first words and first steps. This week, Julia Eggles,...
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Episode 20: It's Nothing To Worry About - He's Just A Typical Boy
In this week's podcast Julia Eggles, Occupational Therapist, is exploring the common belief that boys naturally aren't good at or interested in fine motor activities. There's no doubt that boys and girls have differing strengths and weaknesses arising from a combination of genetics, family and...
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Episode 19: Never Too Soon
This special episode is commemorating Speech Pathology Week and answers the question: "Should I see a Speech Pathologist now or would it be better to wait a while?" If you are wondering whether your child or an adult family member should be seeking help from a Speech Pathologist, then you are not...
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Episode 18: Too Much Chewing!
Some children just can't enough chewing in! It's a habit that frustrates teachers and parents alike. Children with regulation disorders and difficulties such as anxiety,attention deficits, sensory processing disorders/difficulties and autistic spectrum can have great difficulties with this issue....
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Episode 17: Home Programs Made Easier
It has been a long break between podcasts this time, but we hope you think it's worth it! This week Lisa and I are talking about how to navigate the hectic pace and demands of life with the added burden of homework and home programs. It's hard enough to do either of them let alone both! We're all...
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Episode 16: Kicking Goals For Learning
This week Julia spent time with Kaye Dixon, a physiotherapist with decades of experiences working with children with co-ordination and learning difficulties. She is a passionate believer in the connection between movement and learning, and in this episode talks about how the inability to kick a...
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Episode 15: Happy Travels
As another term draws to a close, many children and families are happily looking forward to a restful break and an adventure or two. For others, the break from school can bring a shudder of dread! Some children, particularly those with special needs, rely on the predictable routine of school to...
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Episode 14: They Just Won't Listen!
Not listening, distractibility and inattention are some of the most common reasons for referral to our clinics. They are also the source of a great deal of frustration on the part of both teachers and parents. There can be a number of reasons for failure to follow directions and inattentive,...
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Episode 13: Parent Perspectives: Special Needs
It has been said that to raise a child, it takes a village. This is never more true than with a child who has a developmental disability. For so many children with special needs, the services and funding they receive through school make a massive difference to their learning and development. Yet...
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Episode 12: How To Prevent Shortsightedness In Children
A vision check prior to school and regularly thereafter is important for all children. It's all the more vital considering the concerning figures for increasing shortsightedness that our guest, Behavioural Optometrist, Antoinette Dupree shares today. The good news is that there are simple things...
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Episode 11: Cut It Out!
In this week's podcast Julia Eggles, occupational therapist and author, looks at scissor skills. Research tell us that fine motor skills are are reliable predictor of cognitive development in the early years, and even into high school. Yet increasingly reports are that children are arriving at...
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Epsiode 10: When Is A Lisp, A Lisp?
Sid The Sloth, Tweety Bird and Daffy Duck all share a similar problem but in different ways - lisps! In Dr Lisa Hudson's speech pathology practice every week she gets questions about whether a child has a lisp that needs therapy - and the children concerned range in age from 2.5 to 12 years!...
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Episode 9: Mealtime Mindfulness
Children who have trouble sitting still and paying attention in class, often also have difficulty with sitting still for mealtimes. Working on changing the routines and habits around meals and snacks helps children practice and develop attention, concentration and mindfulness. In this week's...
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Episode 8: Which Hand? Developing Dominance For School Readiness
In this week's podcast, Julia meets with fellow Occupational Therapist, Marga Grey, author and developer of "Co-ordikids". Together they explore the importance of establishing a consistent hand preference or dominance for learning, and some fun and effective ways to naturally develop it. You…
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Episode 7: 10 Fun Ways To Develop Early Maths Skills
Mathematical reasoning is a highly visual way of thinking.As children develop they move concepts they first learn with their hands, and eyes and bodies into pictures and concepts that they can manipulate to solve increasingly complex problems. This step can't be missed if a child is to grow into…
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Episode 6: Active Reading
In this episode, Julia sits down with Robyn Skerrett, Speech Language Pathologist to talk about her simple, enjoyable and effective approach to using books in a creative way for developing social language and relationship skills in children.. Robyn is highly experienced, with a successful...
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Episode 5 - Moving To Think!
In today's podcast, Julia Eggles, Occupational Therapist, Author & Qualified Cogmed Coach is talking about how the movement senses are connected to learning and how to use them to help develop key learning and thinking skills in children. A growing body of research is revealing the power of...
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Episode 4 - Stuttering In The Early Years
Stuttering affects approximately 1% of the world's population and around 2.5% of children under the age of 5 years. This means that across 2 Kindergarten classes, there will be at least one child who stutters. It's an exhausting speech impediment that can have life-long consequences. Many adults...
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Episode 2 - Sight Word Mastery
Sight words are vital for developing fluency in reading - and they can be the bane of a parent's existence after the first flush of excitement of starting to learn to read settles down! The pressure that comes with trying to keep up with expectations for reading progress can get in the way of a...
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Episode 1 - Introduction To Learning Made Easier
If you are a parent or teacher looking for ways to help a child or children facing learning challenges at home or school, then you are in the right place! In our inaugural weekly podcast, Occupational Therapist Julia Eggles introduces the series. Each episode will bring practical ways to make...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
If you're a teacher or parent of children who need extra help overcoming challenges in the early years, you're in the right place. Julia Eggles and Lisa Hudson bring decades of experience to you with creative, fun and practical solutions to transform children's learning experiences for success and mastery.
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