by Sibylle | Oct 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
You want to interact and play with your child. But your child is difficult to engage. He doesn’t talk and is not interested in most of the toys you’ve bought. He runs and jumps, but rarely settles down to purposeful activity or meaningful play. In my...
by Sibylle | Oct 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
This book will empower professionals and parents of children with special needs to create enjoyable, meaningful and engaging learning activities. The book contains: • Advice on choosing activities at the right level, which will increase the child’s engagement and...
by Sibylle | Apr 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
Therapeutic Form Drawing Therapeutic form drawing is a way of making movement visible by exploring the many different ways, in which we can move a crayon or pen across space or paper or ‘take a line for a walk’ (Paul Klee). The drawing of lines, curves and shapes as...
by Sibylle | Feb 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Problems are opportunities for interaction. They open the door to your child or the other person, so you can find out, what HE is thinking or feeling. Problems are not ‘bad’ or ‘a problem’. Or something to send you into a panic. They are not ‘your fault’ or something...
by Sibylle | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
A child who is unable to focus and pay attention is not going to be able to learn. What can we do to help? There are two guiding ‘principles’ to keep in mind that help a child to focus and share attention. One I call ‘walking the tightrope between fear and delight’,...
by Sibylle | Jan 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
The shelf that you suggested we put into our living room arrived yesterday. You were so right about it. I couldn’t believe, how interested Asif was in the play materials that we displayed in it. And I only had to show him once about taking things out and putting them...
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