Exciting events from Bella Vida Therapy Centre

Bella Vida Therapy Centre and Dr. John Demartini invite you to attend:Attention Surplus Order (ASO), tackling ADD and ADHD from the inside out.

Powerful Parent – Powerful Child(Filial Play Therapy Training)
For further information please visit www.remspeced.co.za

CHILDREN WITH ADHD – DEALING WITH FRUSTRATION

Feelings of frustration that aren’t dealt with adequately can lead to aggression. A lack of knowledge exists between the relationship of frustration and ADHD (Attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder), and yet it affects the daily functioning of many children1.

The complete article can be found at:
http://www.remspeced.co.za/Articles/20070320_0001.htm

A parent’s perspective

Our second daughter, Jenna, was born on 16 September 1998.Who would have suspected that that day would change our world in so many ways. Jenna was born with Down syndrome. Our perception of what life is all about changed as Jenna started growing up in our family. Little things became big things and big things became little things. Early intervention, therapies and research became top priority.
The complete article can be found at:
http://www.remspeced.co.za/Articles/20070317_0001.htm

Are you looking for Design Solutions for your Gauteng based SME?

Rival Industrial (www.rival.co.za) operates a full service design offering including:

- Development of Corporate Intranets and Content
- Design and 3D Animation for client specific requirements
- Flash Design
- Animated logos for web publishing
- Design of print adverts
- Corporate letterheads
- Brochures- Websites
- Business Cards
- Digital CD / Catalogues / DVD products
- Any other design solutions your business may have

We offer a cost effective small design team to accomodate for SMEs in Gauteng.For further information please contact us on 011 673-4421 or contact sales@rival.co.za.

Visit www.rival.co.za

Corporate Wellness for Gauteng

Experience and services offered include:
- Employee Assistance Programmes (EAP)
- Sensory Integration Programmes in the Professional Workplace
- Financial Wellness
- Addiction Counselling
- Mentoring and Coaching Programmes
- Teambuilding Exercises
- Formation of support desks to assist your employees
- Strategic Communication Systems for conveying your organisations wellness strategy
- Development of HIV / AIDS programmes for your business
-Non technical / Entry level workshops and presentations can be done in Zulu and Sotho allowing you to expand your Wellness offering to your entire workforce
-Translations of Corporate Wellness content into Zulu / Sotho

The core philosophy of our EAP programmes is to allow for Continued Professional Development to allow your employees to feel they are developing by being productive in your workplace.

Industrial Ergonomics
Rival Wellness combines the principles of Sensory Integration and our knowledge of the Corporate marketplace to offer a solid Ergonomics offering,

This includes:·
- Assessment and implementation of Ergonomically sound furniture for your environment
- Ergonomic assessment of staff including
- Pre-screening and pre-placement testing
- Work-place assessment and consultation
- Ergonomics workshops

Wellness workshops (Half & Full Day) offered by Rival Industrial Wellness

Other Wellness Options presented by Rival Wellness

· HIV/AIDS: Awareness campaign, and implementation of a health promotion strategy.

. Introduction to Financial Wellness: This is an entry-level course aimed at Lower to Middle Income earners looking for a basic level of financial management including budgeting, banking, credit and debit cards and merchandising accounts.

.Flu Management: Awareness campaign, at office/centre vaccinations in April.· Health Risk Management: Awareness of the risks of smoking, poor diet, poor physical fitness, obesity, and alcohol consumption on the development of chronic illness such as cancer, diabetes, coronary artery disease, and stroke.

· Mental Health Promotion: Stress and burn out awareness, emotional leverage awareness (EQ), and intervention on sensory wellness, stress management, time management, work-life balance.

· Family Support: Family needs assessment, family wellness awareness.·

. Personal Development: Awareness of opportunities for personal development, life skills training such as personal finance strategies, leadership courses, job mentorship, continued professional development, career guidance

· Addiction Management: Drug, alcohol, gambling, food and other addictions awareness, opportunities for individuals to be referred to support groups, implications of addiction on the family unit, family counselling.

· Transition Management: Coping with uncertainty, retrenchment stress, merger stress, job seeking strategies, knowing your rights as an employee.

· First Aid Training: Courses on home and work place first aid

· Optimal nutrition for wellness: Dietary tips for the “healthy” body and mind. Influence of diet on performance.·

. Workplace ergonomics: prevent back pain, muscle fatigue and poor performance due to poor ergonomics of the work environment and sensory overload of the environment.

· Sleep regulation: many people are suffering from sleep disorders due to stress, environmental threats and over commitment. This can lead to chronic conditions (fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome), stress related disorders (depression, suicide and anxiety), and general ill-health due to the bodies lack of resources to fight illness. Awareness and intervention strategies.

· Are you moving?: At work exercise awareness, establishing that going for a walk during office hours is a good thing as it promotes clear thought and brainstorming as well as clearing the mind for focused work

The Small Business Toolbox: A guide to assisting budding entrepreneurs get their feet into Small Business with some practical tools and suggestions.

If you believe your business is being either negatively affected by the lack of a wellness strategy or could be more productive by addressing the above please feel free to contact Paula Barnard on 011 673-4421 or via e-mail to discuss further (paula@rival.co.za)

For further information please visit www.rival.co.za

Sensory regulatory difficulties in babies -

Sensory Regulation is the ability of the brain to establish a balance between shutting out and letting in sensory stimuli. Each baby has a different threshold, or tolerance for stimulation. This means that while one baby can remain in a calm state for a longer time, another baby may become quickly over stimulated by the same environment. What is just right for one, may be way too much for another.
The complete article can be found at:
http://www.remspeced.co.za/Articles/20070313_0002.htm

Interview with Francoise Harrison on CranioSacral Therapy

Francoise Harrison is a qualified Occupational Therapist who has a wonderful practice in Chartwell, Johannesburg. She is passionate about her work with children and took a moment out of her busy day to help us to better understand CranioSacral Therapy.
Complete article can be found at:
http://www.remspeced.co.za/Articles/20070313_0001.htm

Mathematics Workshop for the Visually Impaired

For further information please visit:

http://www.remspeced.co.za/Articles/20073112_0001.htm

RemSpecED – Magazine on remedial and special education is South Africa – Goes Monthly!

Parents, teachers and therapists have welcomed the news that the RemSpecED magazine will be a monthly magazine! This full colour mag is a welcome source of validated information on parenting the child that has challenges to learning and development.

Deonette, Occupational Therapist from Durban, commented "I received the copies of the RemSpecED magazine yesterday and wow!!!! What a surprise. It is so nice and informative. Thank you very much for this offer - I feel it is almost too good to be true." She, like many practitioners, is offering the magazine to her clients as added value to her practice.
The first edition was launched in February with a print run of 5000 copies, and is distributed through specialised schools, therapy practices and doctors waiting rooms. "Parents crave information when they have a child with specialised needs", says Paula Barnard, editor of RemSpecED. "Since the launch of the print magazine my email has been flooded with questions from parents ranging from which is the best school to why does a child need visual therapy, to should I hire a facilitator? We have had many mainstream schools ask if they can subscribe even though they are not remedial based as they see value in the content for teachers to be able to help the children in their classes who need some additional support. The response has been overwhelming!"

RemSpecED is a unique magazine in that it covers the challenges that other parents never face, and it is very local focussed with resources available and the situations experienced in South Africa. The key is that the information is realistic to the circumstances that we face in our unique country. It is not a generic parenting magazine, you won’t find your most elaborate party idea, but you will find how to throw a party for 10 hyperactive children and survive!
RemSpecED goes out to parents, therapists, teachers and others involved with children who need additional support in learning and developing. It provides a unique platform to market products that are healthy, educationally valuable and developmentally appropriate, as the readers of this magazine are motivated buyers where the best interests of their children and clients are concerned.

The deadline for RemSpecEDs march edition is 2007/03/16

For further info visit www.remspeced.co.za or e-mail Paula (paula@remspeced.co.za)