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Sep16
Connection Before Correction: Why Trust Comes Before Behaviour Change
A child refuses to put their shoes on. A teenager shuts down as soon as school is mentioned.
Aug20
Communication Is Key: Understanding Behaviour as Communication
Communication shapes the quality of every relationship in our lives — with partners, family, friends, colleagues, neighbours, and our wider community. At FABIC, we remind ...
Jul22
Why Do People Behave the Way They Do? Understanding What Sits Beneath Behaviour
“Why are they doing this?” It is a question many of us ask when someone shouts, withdraws, refuses, repeats an action, damages something or behaves ...
Jul22
What Is a Functional Behaviour Assessment, and What Actually Happens?
When behaviour is affecting safety, relationships, learning, independence or everyday life, it is understandable to want an answer—and often a quick solution. But before we ...
Jul22
Why Individualised Support Matters: The Same Diagnosis Does Not Mean the Same Needs
Two people can have the same diagnosis and experience life in completely different ways. They may communicate differently, respond to different environments, enjoy different activities, ...
Jul22
Empathy and Boundaries: How to Understand Behaviour Without Accepting Harm
Someone you care about is distressed. You can understand why.
Jul22
What to Do When Someone Is Dysregulated: Settle First, Teach Later
Someone raises their voice. They begin pacing, crying, repeating themselves, shutting down or pushing everyone away.
Jul21
What Is Empathy, and How Do We Increase Our Own Empathy?
Empathy is often described as putting yourself in someone else’s shoes. That is a helpful starting point, but it can miss something important: the shoes ...
How Positive Behaviour Support Can Improve Communication, Independence, and Daily Living
How Positive Behaviour Support Can Improve Communication, Independence, and Daily Living Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is often associated with reducing behaviours of concern. While ...
When Should You See an Occupational Therapist? Signs, Benefits, and NDIS Support Explained
When Should You See an Occupational Therapist? Signs, Benefits, and NDIS Support Many individuals, families and carers are unsure when Occupational Therapy may be helpful.
Occupational Therapy in Queensland: How OT Supports Daily Living, Independence, and Wellbeing
Occupational Therapy in Queensland: How OT Supports Daily Living, Independence, and Wellbeing Access to the right allied health support can make a significant difference to ...
What Does an Occupational Therapist Do? A Practical Guide for Children, Teens, and Adults
What Does an Occupational Therapist Do? A Practical Guide for Children, Teens, and Adults Families, carers and NDIS participants often hear the term Occupational Therapist, ...
What Does a Behaviour Support Practitioner Do? A Full Guide for Families and Carers
What Does a Behaviour Support Practitioner Do? A Full Guide for Families and Carers NDIS participants, families and carers often hear the term behaviour support ...
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Explained: Strategies, Examples, and When to Use It
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) Explained: Strategies, Examples, and When to Use It Positive Behaviour Support, commonly referred to as PBS, is a widely recognised and ...
Jun10
Cycle of Bullying
Bullying is an area of concern that many of our clients can present with over their course of treatment. This can impact individuals of varying ...
Feb01
Teaching Kids and Teens to Ask for Help at School
We often don’t think of asking for help as something that needs to be taught. We tend to assume that children, teenagers and adults alike, ...
Aug25
Are expression and anxiety related?
There is at times so much that we really want to express – but often we don’t. Why is that?
Jul20
Toddler Tantrums: Is my child just naughty … or are they anxious?
Tantrum behaviours are often seen as a person somehow being ‘wrong’, ‘bad’, ‘contrary’ or ‘naughty’. But the truth is that all behaviour is a form ...
Jul17
Dis-Ability or Diff-Ability
I love working with people – with or without a diagnosed disability.Some people I work with have presenting symptom(s) that lead to a formalised diagnosed ...
Jul12
Mental Health Burnout … at epidemic proportions and no end in sight
When entering the phrase 'mental health burnout’ in a search engine, 2,910,000 results showed up. When I clicked on the ‘scholarly link’, another 83,600 results ...
Jul04
Cyber-bullying – is it really our new normal?
Cyber bullying is without a doubt an epidemic today. It is a worldwide issue that affects untold many.