Tips and resources

For professionals

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For parents & carers

• Going Away – help with planning and preparation
• The Challenge in Challenging Behaviour
• Understanding feelings and emotional intelligence
• The joy of jigsaws – 5 great benefits
• Are you getting enough exercise?
• When is a child old enough to walk to school alone?

Back to School

• Back to school – help with anxiety and organisation
• School morning routines
• New school year, new start with TomTag
• Building a positive teaching assistant relationship
• TomTag life skill – school routines
• Back to School – an essential A to Z
• ORganised KIDs – top tips for back to school

Autism

• Your TomTag guide to an autism-tastic Christmas
• Coping with a family Christmas for an anxious teen with autism
• TomTag: your stories – Elizabeth
• Interest or obsession – a matter of perspective
• Choosing the right school for your child with autism

Dyslexia

• Dyslexia and executive functioning skills

Dyspraxia

• Improving handwriting skills – without even lifting a pen!
• Dyspraxia Awareness Week

Therapies & Support

• Visual schedules at home – making sure they work
• Visual schedules at home – choosing the right one
• Visual schedules at home – what, who and why?
• 10 ways to have fun with occupational therapy
• Fine motor skills
• Let’s celebrate occupational therapy!
• Good practice is good practice (Sensory Stories with Joanna Grace)

Life Skills

• TomTag life skill – appointments
• TomTag life skill of the month – cooking – Apr 2016
• TomTag life skill – shopping
• TomTag Life Skill of the Month – staying safe – February 16
• TomTag life skill of the month – Sleepovers – Jan 2016
• TomTag life skill of the month – coping with Christmas – Dec 2015
• TomTag life skill of the month – simple meals – Nov 2015
• TomTag life skill of the month – household chores – Oct 2015
• TomTag life skill – school routines
• TomTag life skill – getting dressed
• TomTag life skill – personal hygiene
• TomTag life skill – teeth brushing
• Teach toothbrushing with TomTag
• Baking with children