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All children have unique learning needs, but children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD require extra guidance and support. During this unprecedented period of lock-down due to the Covid-19 pandemic, parents are finding themselves in the unique situation of needing to assist with home schooling.

Brain development in infancy is astonishing. According to the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University, a million connections are made in the brain every second in the first three years of life. The centre notes: “As early experiences shape the architecture of the developing brain, they also lay the foundations of sound mental health.”

In pregnancy, the majority of mothers and fathers take best care they can to protect the health and well being of their unborn baby through keeping active, eating well, relaxing and preparing for the birth of their child by buying clothes, medicines and other necessities for the arrival of her or him into the world.

Many aspects of daily life can be overwhelming for hypersensitive or autistic children, so it is unsurprising that dealing with the challenging impact of anxiety is a daily struggle for many of these children and their families.

A new language-skills study that included infants later diagnosed with autism suggests that all children can benefit from exposure to more speech from their parents/ caregivers.

Parents often ask us whether or not to limit their child’s use of screens. This used to be about TVs and computers, but now these questions are increasingly asked about the use of tablets and smartphones.