Searching for Answers?

Here are some questions to help in your search for answers

Food intolerances

Does your child have problems with:

  • Mouth ulcers?
  • Skin rashes or eczema?
  • Persistent runny or stuffy nose?
  • Colic or complains of stomach pains?
  • Projectile vomiting?
  • Tiredness or sluggishness?
  • Is your child a sugar lover?
  • Irritable and ‘out-of-sorts’?
  • Does the child “go bananas” after a party?
  • Is the child’s crankiness relieved by food?
  • Does the child have extreme mood extremes?
  • Is the child a fussy eater?

Communicating:

Is there an automatic “what” when you start speaking?

Has the child

  • failed to acknowledge your presence when you enter the room?
  • had a history of ear infections?
  • indicated poor balance and poor hearing (often go together)?
  • had trouble learning phonics sounds?
  • over- reacted to loud noises eg lawnmower, vacuum cleaner?
  • over- reacted to sudden noises eg firecracker, train?

Does the child

  • forget to pass on phone messages?
  • have difficulty remembering the order of things that are heard?
  • have difficulty following verbal instructions?
  • mix up words like ‘thin’ and ‘fin’, ‘pin’ and ‘pen’?
  • have difficulty thinking of rhyming words?
  • miss the point of the joke even though you know they have a sense of humour?
  • speak indistinctly or too loudly or too softly?
  • Do you often get the response “I don’t know?”
  • Do you often need to repeat or explain simple instructions?
  • Would the child rather show you something than explain it in words?
  • Is reading, reading comprehension and arithmetic problems hard for your child?

Movement:

Does the child have a real dislike of

  • being touched or cuddled?
  • having their hair brushed or combed or washed?
  • change of any kind?
  • standing still for 20 secs with eyes shut?

Did your child

  • have a difficult birth?
  • fail to explore like other toddlers?
  • fail to crawl?
  • climb high and dangerous places without any fear at all?

Does the child

  • suffer car sickness?
  • seem lopsided when they walk, stand or sit still?
  • seem unconcerned about frequent falls and bruises?
  • have difficulty in learning to tie shoelaces?
  • have difficulty in learning to stack piles of blocks?
  • have difficulty in deciding which hand to write with?

Vision:

Does the child

  • get headaches or feel dizzy after close work?
  • have a poor sitting posture or sit in a manner where only one eye is focussed on work?
  • have trouble catching a ball?
  • have trouble copying from the blackboard or make numerous errors?
  • have trouble keeping lines of numbers in straight columns?
  • have trouble keeping writing on the lines?
  • dislike bright or fluoro lighting? 
  • Are eyes itching or burning or sore or red or watery at any time?
  • Do they complain of seeing double, the words are blurry or move?
  • Is often in trouble for “untidy” or ‘careless’ work?

 

Where to get help?

  • A Certified Irlen Screener or diagnostician
  • A Cellfield Clinician
  • A Learning Difficulties Specialist Centre
  • A Remedial (Special) Education Teacher
  • An Occupational Therapist
  • A Speech Therapist
  • An Educational Psychologist
  • A Chiropractor
  • Physiotherapist
  • Move To Learn Program
  • A Behavioural Optometrist
  • An Audiologist
  • Support Groups

Organisational skills:

  • Is the organisation of self and work very poor?
  • Does the child have obvious difficulty starting and/or finishing simple tasks?
  • Is there a lack of concentration?
  • Does the child lack a sense of rhythm?
  • Does the child lack basic concepts of time eg today, next week, early or late?
  • Is the child haphazard in the way they look for things in a drawer or carry out instructions?
  • Consistently lose things?

Depending on your answers to the above questions KL3 may be able to help – it is a learning difficulties specialist centre with qualifications in Irlen screening and diagnosticsCellfieldJohansen Individualised Auditory Stimulation and employs remedial education teachers.

About Us

Our aim is to provide quality educational assistance to students in a rural situation in the South East of South Australia

Contact Us

0473883139

carol@kl3.com.au

PO Box 1176

5 Pinkerton Rd

NARACOORTE SA 5271