ILT Blog and News
By Dr. Shirley Kokot
How children develop learning readiness
At Integrated Learning Therapy (ILT) we understand the importance of children developing learning readiness. If you understand what that means, then it becomes easier to understand your role as a parent to help them become ready for school learning. This is why it...
Does your child need a Fiddle Toy?
Most of us like to fiddle and find it helps us focus. Some don’t and can keep quite still while attending to important matters. In general lots of children benefit from being allowed to engage in some subtle behaviours when rooted to their school desks and listening...
Is your child ‘sound safe’?
Sound and hearing are vital aspects of being human, learning and functioning optimally in the world. If our ability to hear is hampered, the effects are widespread. A weakened auditory system may result in auditory sequential processing problems. This affects...
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...