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With one week of the holidays left the best thing you could do today is to encourage your child to go out and skateboard…or swim or bike…

What many people don’t know is that coordination and being able to control your body and muscles are important to reading and writing. If your brain is having trouble coordinating your arm, fingers and pen, or working out how to keep our head and body still so it can focus the eye muscles then reading, writing and comprehending are going to be a real complication.

There are lots of exercises and professional help you can get in this area, but giving your child timeout in the fresh air to work on their gross and fine motor skills is free! Here are some to get you started.

Dyslexia. It's a word that is bandied about a lot these days along with ADHD, auditory processing disorder, illiteracy....

Sometimes it can feel like reading a medical manual. When you get to the end you feel like you have all the symptoms! In terms of your child and their difficulties, it can be difficult to figure out what is a symptom and what is not.

So let's go through a few conditions, we'll look at what they are, and some of the symptoms they can present. Please note your child might not present all the symptoms, and yet still have the condition. On the other hand, they may exhibit very few! This article is not a fail proof diagnosis, so please make sure that you consult a professional if you suspect any of these conditions.