23 Jun 😬Feeling frustrated that your little one with special needs is resisting their physiotherapist’s efforts to help them learn to crawl? 🤔Wondering “Will my child with special needs ever crawl?”
If you answered yes to the above questions, you are not alone.
Here at My Favourite Physio, our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists 🤓see many little ones with Special Needs. The goal of Physiotherapy is to help little ones learn to move better to achieve their gross motor skills milestones like rolling, sitting, crawling, pulling to stand, cruising and walking.
Some of the little ones we see in our clinic have complex special needs, and they are nonverbal, so the only way they do communicate is often by screaming and crying.😭 Like all of us, little ones with special needs do find it challenging when they have to learn something new. So not surprisingly, little ones with special needs sometimes protest and scream to resist learning to crawl. However, by using different Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Strategies, Makaton Signing and Gross Motor Relearning Strategies, our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists have been able to help many little ones learn to settle and cooperate to learn to crawl.
To see your little one👶🏻 with Special Needs crawl happily across the room to you is definitely worth the hard work, heartache and stress on your part.
So if you are feeling frustrated and doubting your child’s ability to crawl, be reassured, the persistence will be worth it! Little ones with Special Needs do need more time to get stronger and to learn new skills. 💪Our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists have seen it happen many many times over with many many children.
If you are concerned about your little one’s gross motor skills, ring My Favourite Physio 📱on (02) 9790 4233 or DM us @myfavouritephysio today to speak to one of our Expert Paediatric Physiotherapists today! We love to help you achieve your little one to achieve their best potential today! 🔥🔥🔥
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