Helping  Special needs children
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NCM advises a careful education programme for special needs children once the GAPs diet has healed their gut.  
These resources have been devised through years of working with dyslexic/autistic/special needs children.

All the Phonics Resources you need! Downloads for parents and teachers:
Designed for all ages and abilities including autism and dyslexia

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 A totally FREE systematic phonics reading and spelling programme, particularly suited for children who have any learning difficulty, or you suspect might have so.

Understanding Dyslexia

​The GAPS diet is recommended for helping children with all manner of conditions, like autism, ADHD, dyspraxia and dyslexia. As I have said in a previous post, Dr. Natasha Campbell McBride sees that they all have a common component - poor gut health.

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Mental Afflictions in the young

I have elsewhere mentioned the prevalence of mental problems in youngsters these days. It concerns me very much. I have personal experience of both girls and lads, aged 16 plus, suddenly becoming very withdrawn and then developing severe symptoms such as OCD, depression and even becoming addicted to drugs

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training a child

​Please excuse a departure from my normal subject - food. This is an area very much GAPS related. Please see the chapter on the education of the autistic child in the GAPS handbook. Dr. Natasha Campbell Mc-Bride argues the case for a structured approach to the training of the autistic child to enable learning to take place. 

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Understanding Dyspraxia

​Dyspraxia has not been long recognised by medics or eduacationalists. Dyspraxia, like dyslexia is a neurological condition. That means that it is concerned with the brain's ability to process information.

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