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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.
Jul03
Being a man – anxious much?
Anxiety is very rarely what brings a man to our clinic; generally, they present to support their children, a friend, their partneror wife. However, it ...
Oct16
Classroom of Life vs Curriculum-Based Classroom
There is a FABIC calendar called ‘Messages from the Classroom of Life’ which alone exemplifies that there is much, much more to learn in life ...
Oct10
Autism Spectrum – Going Beyond the Label
Tanya Curtis has been working in the field of disability and with Autism Spectrum Disorder since 2002 and sees autism as a description of a ...
Aug19
What Are the FABIC Products and How Did They Come About?
There are many, many FABIC products that people can take home or order online that will assist them and the person they are supporting to ...
Aug19
Making My Job Redundant
Tanya Curtis has always said that one of her most important jobs is to make her job redundant. And that is equally true for the ...
Nov03
Building Foundations
When hearing the phrase ‘building foundations’, we might be reminded of a house and how important it is that any built structure, from the family ...