Tom C (Behavioural)

For the first time since Tom started school four years ago I am not worried about his future. This is huge for me as a mother.

Tom started school with the teachers unable to understand him and no friends as he couldn't interact with other children despite having an older bother and younger sister. After a few weeks the school identified his problems as the result of Dyslexia and Dyspraxia.

A friend showed me the article in The Times about The Sunflower Trust and I knew I had to get Tom on the programme so I booked an appointment with Clive in Oxford. He said that he thought that he could help him.

Tom started the Sunflower Programme which is a course of ten different sessions which act like building blocks to create a happier child, from "bone crunching", as Tom called it, to cranial osteopathy.  I would watch as Tom's body went weak and floppy when holding a pen and paper.  With Applied Kinesiology, his body would then become strong and confident holding the same pen and paper.

Tom had his own 'Mantra', which he called his 'magic spell' which gave him strength, calmness, confidence and happiness and he said it to himself in times of need.

I can never thank Clive and The Sunflower Trust enough for giving me my son back. I took Tom and my other two children to an art gallery workshop last week. We (children and adults) were invited to look around the gallery and then come back and share our thoughts. The exhibition was of paintings of different sizes of circles going around and around on each other.

Tom's hand was the first go up - in a loud, confident voice Tom said "I think it is a young boy on his bike going round and round and the circles are the stories of his life". The whole room was amazed by an eight year old's perception of life.