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New parenting webinar released online – free to access
We recently were involved in an online webinar for parents focused on parenting. We have now published this webinar on the EPIC YouTube Channel! The webinar includes 3 talks from researchers at the University of Edinburgh. First Dr Vilas Sawrikar talks about supporting parents in managing behaviour and enhancing the quality of parent-teens relationship. Next Claire Tai talks…
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Online workshop for teachers in June
We are hosting an online workshop for teaching professionals who work with primary school age children on 8th June 2023 from 3.30-4.45pm. The workshop is applicable to diagnosed children (e.g. ADHD, autism, DCD/Dyspraxia, FASD) and those not diagnosed e.g. on a waiting list. The workshop will include insights from recent Neurodiversity research. Dr Sinead Rhodes…
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Parents try out a new version of EPIC
This post was written by Dr Iona Beange and Dr Sinead Rhodes Behind the scenes, our team have been busy developing a new version of our EPIC programme. It’s called a ‘self-delivery with support’ programme and we are very excited about it. After showing that EPIC works in a research context (see this blog post)…
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EPIC Think Learn at ITAKOM
It takes all kinds of minds conference, March 2023 EPIC Think Learn are excited to be participating as an exhibitor at ITAKOM, an international conference entirely focused on the far-reaching concept of neurodiversity. We will be bringing along our brand new resources for parents and teachers and look forward to sharing them with a wide…
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Is EPIC suitable for children with DCD/Dyspraxia?
This blog post was written by Sinead Rhodes, Claire Tai, Peter Wu and Penny Shutt We have been busy working on a pilot study to see if EPIC activities would be suitable for children with Dyspraxia/Developmental Co-ordination Disorder (DCD). A pilot study is a small-scale study with a small number of children taking part –…
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Taking an individualised approach when helping a child with developmental difficulties
The EPIC intervention and use of associated materials aims to facilitate optimal thinking, learning, and wellbeing in children and young people. Today we are going to cover a further aspect of EPIC: taking what is called an ‘individualised transdiagnostic’ approach. The EPIC approach is individualised. It is important that psychoeducation and strategies are based on…
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Personalisation
We have published free downloadable materials for parents and teachers to help with thinking and learning in children and young people especially for children with developmental difficulties. Yesterday we blogged about a key feature of EPIC – multiple areas of difficulty and we wrote about our play, game and activity based focus. Today we are…
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Multiple areas of difficulty and neurodevelopmental conditions
The EPIC intervention and use of associated materials aims to facilitate optimal learning, behaviour, wellbeing and mental health in children and young people. We recently blogged about strategies paired to areas of difficulty. Today we are going to cover a further key aspect of our approach: targeting multiple areas of difficulty. Children with neurodevelopmental difficulties…
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Strategies to help with thinking skills
A central part of the EPIC approach is the use of psychoeducation and pairing of that knowledge with suitable strategies for facilitating optimal thinking, learning and wellbeing. Once the child, parent and/or teacher are aware of a child’s difficulties, strategies can then be paired to difficulties to meet an individual child’s needs. In our Strategy…
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Psychoeducation
The EPIC intervention and use of associated materials aims to facilitate optimal thinking, learning, and wellbeing in children and young people. A central part of the EPIC approach is the use of psychoeducation. What is psychoeducation and what does it involve? Psychoeducation involves gaining knowledge to help with understanding of a condition. The aim of…
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