New online store will be launched very soon

Hi – Due to complications with the current method of purchasing our e-books, we are pleased to announce we will soon be launching a brand new online store.

We will be announcing the launch in the coming weeks.

Best wishes

Dawn

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Enquiry about testing for children

Can you please advise where you can get testing for motor dyspraxia or dyslexia in Sydney? My daughter has been diagnosed with auditory processing disorder and we are commencing some treatment for this – but I think she may also have motor dyspraxia

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Where do we go now?

Hi,
I have 2 boys – 11 and 9yrs old. The oldest one has had no developmental or learning difficulties at all. The youngest has had speech therapy and occupational therapy starting from 4yrs of age (speech). The school they attend has copies of all of his therapy. His writing is atrocious, he has excellent spelling and mathematical skills. He transposes letters, can’t write in/on lines, writes in a mix of capitals and lower case, all different size letters, takes forever to write anything and tidy just does not exist in his work books. He also gets severely frustrated especially at school when given a writing task – snapping pencils and crying at times. He failed his yr 3 statewide core skills test for writing (surprise surprise) and I have been unable to find any tutors on the list given out by the gov dept that organises the tutoring to do with the skills tests. So I am at a stage now where I will have to arrange for his tutoring to be done through the school he attends. My issue is this – they have been aware of his diffulties from day dot and have from what I can see just ignored them or put them in the too hard basket. My son is extremely intelligent and inquisitive and tries hard to please as long as he doesn’t have to write anything. I presently have him working on a touch typing CD rom hoping that if I can improve his typing I can convince the school to allow him to do his ‘writing’ on the computer …

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