Does Your Child Need Our Help
Children with learning, behavioural and health difficulties are often very bright but unexpectedly under-perform in a learning environment. The aim of the Sunflower Therapy is help them to re-connect with the marvellous inherent abilities that they each have. This will have a beneficial effect in many areas of their lives. By alleviating accumulated stresses in the body, the Sunflower Therapy restores the basis of good health. With secure foundations, children are happier and more creative, expressive and confident. In short, they become the very best they can be.
Many of the children we see demonstrate clear symptoms indicating they are having difficulties with behaviour and/or learning efficiently. The set of symptoms may have been labeled as dyslexia, Aspergers' syndrome, dyspraxia, ADD or ADHD, but there's frequently a degree of overlap and many children will display a range of symptoms.
Some children helped by the Sunflower Programme don't have a learning or behavioural challenge per se but have been brought to us by concerned parents because their performance doesn't match their level of intelligence. If you're worried about your child and would like to know if the Sunflower Programme might help, review the questions we've listed below with your son or daughter in mind (print the page if it makes it easier and you can go through it at your leisure). If you answer 'yes' to two or three of these questions, your child will probably benefit from seeing one of our practitioners.
Have you noticed any of the following in your child?
- Difficulty with reading
- Difficulty with writing
- Difficulty with mathematics
- Difficulty in understanding words in normal conversation
- Inability to relate to people in groups or understand the conversation
- Poor or non-existent sense of direction
- Little or no concept of time
- Inability to concentrate, even when involved in a particular activity such as a game
- Disequilibrium (balance dysfunction)
- Poor motor co-ordination
- Constantly bumping into things or dropping things
- Stuttering, hesitant speech, poor word recall
- Inability to remember names
- Sharp emotional or mood swings
- Needs to re-read the same word or phrase to get any meaning out of it
- Difficulty in following sequential instructions or events
- Difficulty in following motion or moving things (people, balls, traffic)
- Various phobias including height, motion-related escalators, elevators, bridges etc)
- Gets lost easily all the time
- Unable to, or unsure in making decisions
- Feelings of inferiority, stupidity, clumsiness
- Inability to organise activities, particularly allocating time or doing opposite of what was told
- Gets drowsy or tends to fall asleep while driving on highway or open road
Finding Out More
The Sunflower Trust is always delighted to speak to anyone wanting more information about the Sunflower Therapy. We have an office dedicated to supporting the Sunflower Trust which can be contacted on 0845 054 7509.
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