ILT Blog and News
By Dr. Shirley Kokot
Is it OK to bribe children to eat vegetables?
We all know the ruse of bribing children with the promise of a sweet dessert or other treat if they eat their vegetables. But this can possibly do more harm than good. Nick Fuller, writing for The Conversation, discusses this. Why bribing may backfire Offering...
Can it be that there’s something wrong with my child’s brain? No.
So your child isn’t coping at school. She’s been diagnosed with ADHD or some other disorder and medications are prescribed to help her brain cope better with the demands of school and home. This often brings relief to families and the children themselves. Most of...
Ways of helping memory during exams
It’s exam time again. Here are some ways of helping to remember all the details needed to do well, and some habits that might not be helpful. This information comes from Matthew Mundy, writing for The Conversation. The bad habits Several common habits during exam...
Systems supporting learning
At Integrated Learning Therapy, you might often hear us comparing children to a house. Strange, but true! Let me explain. It’s important to remember the way a child’s brain develops and how that development may impact on learning. We tend to look at a child’s...
Should we teach children cursive handwriting?
A posting on Facebook reported that education departments in some countries are reconsidering the need to teach cursive (joined up letters) to learners. It seems that there is an argument for abandoning cursive writing because of the decreasing need to write at all. ...
Printed books still best for learning to read
Madeline Strauss, of Michigan State University reports on a study into the comparative value of digital methods versus ‘old fashioned’ simple ways of learning to read among pre-schoolers. It seems that writing letters and spotting words in print in everyday life in a...
Stress in children
With thanks to Drs Yiming and Fung, authors of ‘Help your child to cope: Understanding childhood stress’ We all experience stress in varying amounts in our lifetimes. Adults under stress are advised to talk to others, get help in managing stress, increase physical...
Why ‘active’ story time helps a child’s development
Research over the years shows consistently that children whose parents read stories to them from a young age show better language skills than those who don’t have a ‘story time’. Listening to stories is obviously a fun way for children to spend quality time with...
Building skills for Maths and Science
Skills needed for success at maths and science depend on a child’s spatial reasoning ability. This is the ability to visualise how shapes and objects move or fit together and the sooner this develops, the better the chances that the child will cope in the scientific...