Whales: Giants of the Ocean Whales are among the largest and most remarkable animals on Earth. These marine mammals live in oceans around the world, from warm tropical waters to the cold seas surrounding the poles. Life Beneath the Surface Although whales spend their lives in water, they breathe air through blowholes located on top …
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Whales: Giants of the Ocean
Whales: Giants of the Ocean Whales are among the largest and most remarkable animals on Earth. These marine mammals live in oceans around the world, from warm tropical waters to the cold seas surrounding the poles. Life Beneath the Surface Although whales spend their lives in water, they breathe air through blowholes located on top …
What are the IEP Requirements and Processes?
Each child who is enrolling in a special education school will have to undergo the Individualised Education Program or IEP in short. The IEP is a written statement of the educational program that is designed to meet a child’s individual needs. That’s why the process of developing this vital document is of great interest and …
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Learning Difficulties in Children – The Red Flags
For Sandra’s daughter, Debbie, speech came a little later. She was already three years old when she spoke her first word and when she was learning to read and write, Sandra noticed that Debbie struggled often struggled with mixing up the letters in her spelling. When it’s time to learn her math, Debbie also took …
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Anger Management for Children
Children and their tantrums are legendary, as any parent with a wailing child in a supermarket would tell you. When it comes to handling temper tantrums in children, parents seem to be divided into two main approaches: giving in and ignoring. When it comes to parenting, there are many schools of thought but anger management …
What are the Differences Between SPEDS Schools and Regular Schools
Each child has different needs when it comes to education, but some have more specific needs than others. In regular schools, it is known that children will be taught a lesson syllabus that is pretty much uniform according to their ages. However, for children with special educational needs, the lesson plan can’t be quite as …
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What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and What are the Symptoms?
Being only first discovered in 1943 when the first person was diagnosed with autism, there are still many things that are unknown about the real causes and risk factors of autism. What we know is that the number of children known to have autism has increased dramatically since the 1980s, at least partly due to …
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Can Autism be Cured?
Raising a child with autism is a big challenge for every parent, therefore, upon knowing that their child has been diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), the first question most parents ask is the same: can autism be cured? As ASD is not an illness, there is no cure for the condition. The only available …
Social Skills for Children
Some parents would normally brush off having to train their young children in proper interaction with others, under the pretext that they are still young and that children should be allowed to act like children. Nonetheless, with the rising cases of childhood bullying in recent years, it is proven that it’s never too early to …
What Are the Causes of Autism?
The prevalence of autism has risen steadily since researchers in the US began tracking it in 2000. Since then, a common question for most is what are the causes of autism? What we know for sure is that scientists have yet to identify any confirmed cause of autism. However, research suggests that autism develops from …