Working out of CCH in Keilor, DR Brooke Harcourt is our Paediatric and Maternal Dietitian with Family Dietetics. Brooke believes in working with children and their families to develop personalised and attainable nutrition goals. As our Dietician, we have asked Brooke to share a tasty but nutritious recipe with us to help parents, which can be prepared in
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Studies have consistently found that more than half of autistic children and possibly as many as 4 in 5 have at least one chronic sleep problem. While sleep problems are common and chronic in children with ASD, some parents may not recognise a sleep problem and may not seek treatment. The biggest sleep problems among these children
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In April this year, the World Health Organisation issued the first-ever guidelines for kids’ screen time. The reason behind this was because “Achieving health for all means doing what is best for health right from the beginning of people’s lives,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement. “Early childhood is a period
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Working memory refers to the ability to hold and manipulate information in the head over short periods of time. It’s the capacity to hold information in mind for the purpose of completing a task, encoding information, or generating goals, plans, and sequential steps to achieving goals. Working memory is essential to carry out multi-step activities,
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Welcome to the Autumn edition of the CCH enewsletter. As the days get shorter, the weather cooler and the summer holidays a distant memory, it’s hard to believe we have nearly reached the end of term one! Hopefully, all the small (and not so small) people have settled into the new routines for the year,
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The question that runs through many parents’ minds when they make the decision to enrol in school is “Will my child be school ready?” when January rolls around. The transition to school is one of the biggest challenges in early childhood. There has been a revolution in the way that school readiness has been conceptualised
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The first thing to remember is it’s important to be aware that each child with autism is unique. It is often hard to communicate with them, and non-autistic people have difficulties in reading their social cues and body language. Autistic children often take things as they see them and can’t usually see what we are
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Whether the kids have their new lunchbox from Santa ready to go, or you’ve just asked your pre-teen where theirs is (and found it at the bottom of their school bag complete with last years unfinished wrap): the thought of another year of making, wrapping and sending off original, nutritious, tasty and ‘on trend’ lunches
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by Melissa Juzva, Psychologist | Director, Solution Psychology When working with children on anxiety most parents (and children) want to jump straight to fixing the behaviour or the outcome when really we need to work on helping them change their thoughts. This, in turn, changes their feelings which in turn changes their behaviour. Lets take
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