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2026 - A New School Year

A shout out to all the neurodivergent families preparing to tackle their first, last or yet another year of school. The anxiety is real so go easy on your little (or big) ND people including yourself.

These are my recommendations, in no particular order, to help you navigate the first week of back to school with your neurodivergent kiddos.

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And that’s a Wrap for 2025!

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Supervision At Badger’s Place

Badger’s Place is pleased to announce that we can now offer Board Approved Supervision in a number of areas related to Belinda’s experience and expertise.

Our latest blog post provides more information about our supervision services.

Please contact us if you would like to book an appointment.

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Growth Mindset - Part 2

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Back To School for 2025

These are my recommendations, in no particular order, to help you navigate the first week of back to school.

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Gestalt, Echolalia, Hyperlexia, and Scripting

In my previous blog I talked about gestalt processing. A gestalt is a multi-word chunk that a speaker hears, stores, and uses as a whole before having knowledge or awareness of its internal structures e.g., phonemes or meaning. Autistic learners are likely to be gestalt processors repeating language in chunks to communicate (echolalia) and also are likely to be able to recognise words as whole words without having to break them down into sounds (hyperlexia).