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Counselling support for the emotional impact of dyscalculia
A counsellor helps a child cope with dyscalculia by separating the maths difficulty from self-worth, easing maths anxiety and shame, building self-advocacy and small wins, and coaching parents and teachers — working alongside, not replacing, structured learning support. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a Counsellor Helps a Child Cope with Dysgraphia
A counsellor helps a child with dysgraphia by separating the difficulty from the child's self-worth, easing writing-related anxiety and frustration, rebuilding confidence through strengths, and teaching coping and self-advocacy, working alongside occupational and educational therapy. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a counsellor helps a child cope with the emotional impact of dyslexia
A counsellor helps a child with dyslexia cope emotionally by building a trusting relationship, normalising the difficulty in blame-free language, anchoring identity in strengths, teaching coping and self-advocacy skills, and addressing anxiety or avoidance — working alongside educators and therapists. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerCounselling support for emotional & behavioural difficulties
A counsellor helps a child cope with emotional and behavioural difficulties by building trust, helping the child name and regulate big feelings through play and talking, rebuilding self-worth, and coaching parents and teachers for consistent support. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerCounselling support for feeding and eating difficulties
A counsellor helps a child cope with the emotional impact of feeding and eating difficulties by offering a safe space to express anxiety and shame, building gentle coping strategies, reducing mealtime stress and protecting self-esteem, while working alongside the feeding therapy, paediatric and dietitian team. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHelping a Child Cope Emotionally with FASD
A counsellor helps a child with FASD cope emotionally by building a safe, predictable relationship, teaching emotional regulation in concrete multisensory ways, and reframing behaviour through a brain-based strengths-first lens, while coaching parents and teachers for consistency. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a counsellor helps a child cope with Fine Motor Delay
A counsellor supports a child with Fine Motor Delay by tending to the emotional impact — frustration, low self-esteem and peer comparison — through play-based emotional support, resilience-building and parent coaching, working alongside occupational therapy that builds the motor skill itself. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a counsellor supports a child's emotions with genetic syndromes
A counsellor helps a child with a genetic or chromosomal syndrome by offering a safe, age-appropriate space to process feelings, building coping skills and self-worth through play, story and visual tools, and working with the family and wider team. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerCounselling support for emotional impact of GDD
A counsellor helps a child with Global Developmental Delay cope emotionally by building trust, meeting the child at their developmental level through play and adapted communication, supporting emotional regulation and self-worth, and coaching the family — working alongside the wider therapy team. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a counsellor helps a child cope with Gross Motor Delay
A counsellor helps a child cope with gross motor delay by naming and normalising feelings, protecting self-esteem against peer comparison, reducing fear and avoidance of movement, coaching the family, and aligning emotional goals with the physiotherapy plan. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerCounselling Support for Children with Hearing Impairment
A counsellor helps a child cope with the emotional impact of hearing impairment by creating an accessible, communication-matched safe space, validating feelings, using play and story, building self-esteem and self-advocacy, fostering friendships and a positive identity, and coaching the family — working alongside audiology, speech therapy and school. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a Counsellor Helps a Child Cope with Hypotonia
A counsellor helps a child with hypotonia by building self-worth that is not tied to physical performance, naming and normalising frustration and fatigue, teaching coping and self-advocacy skills, and coaching family and school — working alongside physiotherapy and occupational therapy. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerCounselling and the emotional wellbeing of children with Intellectual Disability
A counsellor helps a child with intellectual disability cope emotionally by building trust, using play, art and feelings-based methods to grow emotional vocabulary and self-esteem, teaching concrete coping skills, and coaching parents and teachers to reinforce warmth and strengths. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a counsellor helps a child cope with motor planning difficulties
A counsellor supports a child with motor planning difficulties by addressing the emotional fallout — frustration, low confidence and avoidance — through play-based, strengths-focused work, coping strategies and coaching the family and school, always alongside occupational and physical therapy. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a Counsellor Helps a Non-Verbal Child Cope Emotionally
A counsellor supports a non-verbal or minimally verbal child by working in the child's existing language — play, gesture, pictures, AAC and movement — to give emotions a safe outlet, build emotional safety and self-worth, and coach the family to respond to cues. This works best alongside speech and language therapy. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a Counsellor Helps a Child Cope With ODD
A counsellor helps a child with Oppositional Defiant Disorder by building a trusting, non-judging relationship, naming the frustration and shame beneath the defiance, teaching emotion-regulation and collaborative problem-solving, and coaching parents in calm, consistent responses. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerCounselling support for the emotional impact of persistent toe-walking
A counsellor supports a toe-walking child's emotions — self-consciousness, teasing or activity anxiety — through play, confidence-building and parent coaching, while physiotherapy addresses the gait itself. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerCounselling Support for Emotional Impact of Prematurity-Related Developmental Risk
A counsellor helps a child cope with the emotional impact of prematurity-related developmental risk by building a trusting relationship, using play and creative therapy to name and normalise feelings, growing confidence through small mastery goals, and coaching the family to respond warmly and reduce pressure. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerCounselling and the Emotional Impact of Rett Syndrome
A counsellor helps a child with Rett Syndrome cope emotionally by communicating through eye gaze, body cues and assistive technology, building safe predictable routines that ease anxiety, supporting difficult transitions, and coaching the family, all alongside the child's medical and therapy team. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHelping a Child Cope with the Emotional Impact of a School Readiness Gap
A counsellor helps a child cope with the emotional impact of a School Readiness Gap by building emotional safety, naming and normalising feelings through play and story, protecting self-esteem with strengths-led encouragement, teaching simple coping tools, and partnering with parents and teachers for consistent hopeful messaging. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a Counsellor Helps a Child Cope with Selective Mutism
A counsellor helps a child with Selective Mutism by lowering the anxiety that silences them — building safety through low-pressure connection, using graded exposure and feelings tools, protecting self-esteem, and coaching family and school, ideally alongside speech therapy. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a counsellor helps a child cope with self-regulation difficulties
A counsellor helps a child cope with self-regulation difficulties by first building a safe, non-judgemental relationship, then teaching emotional literacy, co-regulation and a personal calm toolkit while protecting self-esteem and partnering closely with parents and the therapy team. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow can a counsellor help a child cope with the emotional impact of Sensory-Based Feeding Selectivity?
A counsellor helps a child with Sensory-Based Feeding Selectivity by easing mealtime anxiety, shame and loss of control through play, emotional naming, trust-based graded exposure and parent coaching, working alongside feeding and occupational therapy. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
Read the answer AnswerHow a Counsellor Helps a Child Cope with Sensory Processing Differences
A counsellor helps a child cope with the emotional impact of Sensory Processing Differences by naming and normalising overwhelming feelings, building a personalised calming toolkit, protecting self-esteem and teaching self-advocacy, while working alongside occupational therapy. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.
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