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Parents urged to care for
childrenís air!
The Asthma Foundation of WA
is urging parents to butt out around children, in an attempt
to curb the increasing incidence of childhood asthma in
Western Australia.
With one in four Western
Australians developing asthma before their fifth birthday, the
Asthma Foundation of WA recently launched its Care for my Air!
campaign, encouraging expecting and new parents to protect the
foetus and newborn baby from exposure to tobacco smoke. Click
here for more
Slipping through the
educational cracks
- Brad Hutchinson,
Audiologist/Speech Pathologist
Children do not come with a
manual. Often parents are required to implement trial and
error to address their childís needs and wants.
In an ideal world, schooling
would provide each childís educational needs. In the real
world, classrooms usually consist of 30 or so students and the
teacher is forced to aim their instruction at the level of the
ëaverageí child. There is often little opportunity for
one-on-one teaching and invariably it is the parent who is
left to address any additional educational needs. Click
here for more
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