Practical Skills at Home

• Hobbies and Leisure

  • About choosing a hobby »

  • Archery »

  • Ball skills - catching & throwing »

  • Ball skills - catching and throwing games to help »

  • Ball skills - kicking »

  • Ball skills - normal development »

  • Bike riding »

  • Crafts »

  • Golf »

  • Horseback riding »

  • Martial arts »

  • Photography »

  • Play for fun »

  • Swimming - activities & games »

  • Swimming - getting started »

  • Trampolining »

• Independent Living Skills

  • Bedtime and sleep routine »

  • Bath time »

  • Bedroom environment »

  • Bedroom organisation »

  • Bedtime and sleep routine - ideas to help »

  • Cleaning teeth - ideas to help »

  • Dressing – Boys »

  • Dressing – Girls »

  • Food shopping with your child »

  • Headlice - managing the problem »

  • Hygiene for boys »

  • Hygiene for girls »

  • Mealtimes »

  • Mealtimes – equipment »

  • Mealtimes for the pre-school child »

  • Mealtimes routines - ideas to help »

  • Nail cutting »

  • Nose blowing »

  • Practical skills at home - adolescent girls »

  • Shoes and shoelaces »

  • Toileting »

  • Using cutlery »

• Social and Emotional Behaviour

  • Adolescence- what is changing in the brain? »

  • Behaviour – improving it »

  • Behaviour – social communication »

  • Behaviour – why does it change? »

  • Birthdays »

  • Bullying »

  • Bullying - ways to help »

  • Friends – having friends over to play »

  • Friends – making friends »

  • Outings and holidays – planning »

  • Selective eating habits »

  • Selective eating habits - ideas to help »

  • Sibling rivalry »

  • Sibling rivalry- ideas to help »

  • Social skills »

  • Social Skills - ideas to help »

  • Talking - to develop »

  • Telling your child »

• Study Skills and Attention

  • Attention - ways to help »

  • Attention – normal development »

  • Desks and chairs »

  • Fiddle toys »

  • First stage activities to develop listening skills »

  • Homework - reduce the stress »

  • Homework – preparing and doing »

  • Introduction to study skills »

  • Organising the timetable »

  • Second stage activities to develop listening abilities »

  • Time – understanding the concepts »