Resources to share

Brain Development, challenging behaviour and the importance of play

So how does therapeutic play with my child support their behaviour and brain development. Ali out play therapist has put together this great read sharing how this works. Happy reading of Brain Development, challenging behaviour and the importance of play.

Building Brains - A guide to supporting your child's development through play
Ali Bell - PLAY Therapist

This guide is designed to help you understand the typical growth of your child's brain, and how that impacts their social development. It also suggests play activities you can try at home to help you build your child's beautiful brain. Different children develop at different rates, so the ages listed are only a guide. We encourage you to think about your own child and the skills they are currently showing to figure out where in their growth they are - Enjoy!

Social Stories

Social stories are a way to prepare your child for social or new situations. They have been shown to reduce anxiety about transitions and support children to learn what behaviours are expected of them and others. From time to time when we feel many of our families would benefit you will find them here to use at your leisure, these have been either created by us or credited and shared from another awesome organisation.

Coming to Emerge - QV Tower

This social story will help you to prepare your child for coming to our Emerge office at Level 3 in the QV Tower. The template includes customizable spaces for you to write your child’s name and the therapist they are seeing. To include therapist photos, simply copy and paste photos from the ‘our team’ section of our website. Please click here to access the social story and we hope it helps.