At Social Living Solutions, we are all about helping your child meet his or her potential.  Coming up over the next few months is a series of helpful blogs centred around life skills that will help your child to flourish.  Today I am going to talk about the essential...

Many of you will be becoming increasingly aware of how to best assist your child to transition from Year 6 into Year 7 and the different challenges associated with this major transition time. Parents often get in contact with me at this stage of their child’s lives to...

Assisting special needs children to become less anxious and more focused through Mindfulness meditation practice. Mindfulness meditation calms and trains the mind to stay in the moment. This is of great benefit to our ASD, ADHD, ADD children and others who suffer from...

Empowerment. This is a word that is used a lot. In my work as a Global Ambassador for Taryn Brumfitt's "Body Image Movement", we constantly talk about empowering girls and women to love and embrace their bodies. When I look at the parallels of this movement and trying...

I ended my last blog with: "As a society we care too much about other people's ideas of what is and what is not appropriate, rather than the effect our actions and behaviour will have on the ones we should love and support the most." For all my life I have been a...

“If you have it (Autism) mildly, you are at the awkward mid-point of being “normal enough” for everyone to expect the same from you as everyone else, but “autistic” enough not to reach these expectations.” Chris Bonelli – autisticnotweird.com

Reading this got me thinking…