ILT Blog and News
By Dr. Shirley Kokot
Understanding an anxious child
You may wonder why your child is prone to anxiety. Why she so often resorts to tears, fears and avoidance behaviours. While there are many possible reasons for this, it is sometimes useful to consider the actual development of the brain and how this may contribute to...
What may causes a child’s concentration problems?
Teachers have so many roles to play and balls to juggle that for many, life can seem overwhelming for much of the time. Added to that is the expectation that they have to be able to meet the needs of children with a wide variety of abilities and challenges. No...
Close the gap: using food to help learning problems
When I meet a child with learning or behavioural difficulties, their parents very often tell me that the child has no nutritional problems and no symptoms of an unhealthy gut. This is ironic, because I’ve very seldom met a child with sensory processing...
ADHD – Is it really so common?
Has your child been labelled as ADHD? If so, you may have felt relieved to have someone make the diagnosis because it explains the challenging behaviours you’ve been dealing with over the years and you’ll be offered a course of therapy to hopefully lessen the...
An apple a day …
For some time now the health profession has realised the incredible importance of the connection between our guts and brains. This means that for children to learn easily and efficiently we need to take care that their digestive systems are full of ‘healthy’...
Helping babies build their brains
As we are all aware, a baby’s brain is very undeveloped at birth, owing to the relatively small size of a newborn’s head. In fact, the newly born child has all the brain cells (neurons) he will ever need but they aren’t able to communicate with each other very...
The link between eyes and ears
When working with children who show some visual problems, for example, not being able to follow a moving object easily or whose eyes don’t converge or diverge appropriately, Integrated Learning Therapy (ILT) practitioners usually begin a helping programme by first...
Is your child a slower developer?
Just like we don’t all grow in height at the same rate, we have different rates of neurodevelopment. This means that the brain develops over time and reaches certain levels of development at different stages of childhood. That doesn’t mean that a child who is a...
Will sugar turn my child into a whirlwind?
Are you one of those parents who dread an oncoming birthday party, with tables overflowing with sugary goods? Does your child show hyperactive behaviour or even symptoms of ADHD after eating a lot of sugar? While your child certainly may show an increase in energy or...