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

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• Developmental coordination disorder (DCD) and dyspraxia
• Joint hypermobility syndrome
• Low muscle tone
• Why children have movement difficulties 
• Training skills for action
  Activities and ideas for improving your child's ability to do everyday and school tasks
• Movement STATES
  An an approach to therapy based on an action perspective on motor control
• Useful links
  Link to websites with good and useful information
• Comments page
  A place to post feedback, ideas, suggestions and questions

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.

Over the last 25 years there have been very significant changes in the scientific understanding of how movement and posture are learnt and controlled. Updated theories and exciting new ideas have been emerging thick and fast. These have had a profound effect on my own practice as a physiotherapist working with children and meant that I have had to question my deeply held beliefs and assumptions over and over again.

I have tried to integrate theoretical understanding with practical experience in my practice - and the outcome of that integration is what you will find on these pages.

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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