Tantalising your toddler’s taste buds
News 24 – Staff Writer
Tantalising your toddler’s taste buds
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Autism, coronavirus and support with autism spectrum disorder
The Herald News – Shivali Sarawgi and Gina Marini
Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have been hit especially hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. The coronavirus outbreak has triggered a number of specific stressors for children with autism due to changes in daily routines and social interactions.
Pandemic screen time tops 6 hours a day for some kindergartners
Medical X-Press – Jeff Grabmeier
Kindergartners from low-income families spent more than six hours a day in front of screens during two early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, a small Ohio study suggests. That is nearly double the screen time found before the pandemic in similar children, according to other research.
Read More: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2021-05-pandemic-screen-tops-hours-day.html
How to Help Kids Focus, According to a Clinical Psychologist
Pure Wow – Emma Singer
Nobody can honestly claim that they’ve never experienced difficulty focusing; it’s a highly relatable problem that can turn even the smallest task into an excruciating affair, which is precisely why everyone should have an arsenal of skills and strategies at their disposal for when the beast of distraction rears its head. As a parent, you probably have a few such tricks up your sleeve already (after all, the laundry doesn’t wash itself), but they might be hard to pinpoint and harder still to teach to your easily-distracted offspring.
Read More: https://www.purewow.com/family/how-to-help-kids-focus
4 Ways to Help Students Get Better Sleep
Edutopia – Lauren Brukner
Healthy sleep habits are a vital life skill that is directly related to higher levels of function across a child’s day, and it is vitally important that we teach our students strategies that address this component of wellness. Research shows that sleep actively supports cognitive functioning and mental health in adolescence, and that there is a comorbidity of sleep disruption with nearly all psychiatric and developmental disorders. Sleep also affects self-regulation and mental health.
Read More: https://www.edutopia.org/article/4-ways-help-students-get-better-sleep