skillsforaction.com

Resources for helping children with movement difficulties 

For subscribers 
Fit for Action 
Infant Developmental Gym

Know more:  and understand your child's difficulties

Children

Help with handwriting 
Joint hypermobility syndrome
Low muscle tone
Highly sensitive child 
DCD and dyspraxia  
Autism and Aspergers

Babies and toddler

Some babies need a little extra help along the way
Hypermobile and low tone in babies and toddlers
Tracking your baby's progress 
Down syndrome

Know how - parents taking action 

Motivating the reluctant child

​Self-efficacy and self-esteem

About skillsforaction.com

All children have the capacity to improve their existing movement skills and to acquire new skills through practice. The trick is to provide the child with the right learning opportunities - and then to support the learning so that the child's efforts lead to success.

The aim of this website is to share with parents, teachers and therapists some very practical ideas that I have found to be useful in helping children to gain movement skills.

I also hope that it will become a place where other people will share ideas and experiences - and in this way create a rich learning environment for all of us who live and work with children who need that little bit of extra help to learn to move and do things.

Pam Versfeld
Physiotherapist, Cape Town, South Africa
pam@skillsforaction.com

About the author

I am physiotherapist in private practice in Cape Town, South Africa. I am particularly interested in how children acquire skills and the importance of the emotional and cognitive skills in children's learning of movement-based tasks.

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From time to time I get feedback from someone who found the information interesting or helpful and that is very exciting. Please let me have your comments, good and bad, ideas, questions and suggestions. Send them to me at pam@skillsforaction.com or post them on the comments page.

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