The Point Special Needs Awareness

05/01/2026

A first quarter reminder! 💡📝

gratitude grows best in the soil of limits. giving your kids everything may feel loving in the moment, but wisdom teaches them to value what they have.

30/12/2025

Grateful for 2025..
2026, here we come!

22/09/2025

Another weekend..Another learning.

Congratulations parents! Healthier tomorrow starts today. You braved the sweet facts and bitter truth of sugar.

Thank you Dr. Micah Masbad, MPM for debunking it--awareness is the first step to change and making healthier choices. Right? Right!

See you on the next get together parents.

24/08/2025

Hats off to your hardwork and perseverance!

Our warmest congratulations to Teacher Aileen on completing the intensive Learning Without Tears (3 Areas) handwriting training-workshop in Manila lead by Mr. Peter Giroux, PhD., MHS, OTR/L, FAOTA.

This achievement reflects a strong commitment to advancing expertise on building handwriting skills that support classroom success and lifelong learning for the children.

We are proud to witness such dedication to excellence in practice. Our support is with you as you move forward toward becoming a Handwriting Specialist.

13/08/2025

What you plant at 5, grows at 15.
Tough LOVE it is. A heart with RULES.

13/08/2025

What you plant at 5, grows at 15.
Tough LOVE it is. A heart wtih RULES.

22/06/2025

More than JUST screen time -- We talked Impact, Insight, and Intervention! A lecture-workshop that truly opened eyes and minds.

Dr. Paul Lawrence Filomeno, founder of Healthy Screens PH , a pediatrician and gaming addiction and recovery specialist, nailed it! His expert insights on healthy screen time had everyone rethinking the family media plan for the children.

Big respect to you Dr. Paul for sharing to everyone; a clear, compelling and on point advices on managing screen time not just for children BUT FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY. We look forward for the next lecture-workshop.

Everyone Matters. Everyone Belongs.

21/06/2025

Because every child learns differently -- and that's okay.

As a team, we are honored to be part of this conversation and to share about what truly matters. And it was all about the heart, patience and understanding.

We are thankful to have established with Northwest Hill Side School, Inc., a mutual understanding in creating a safe space for all learners especially those with unique needs. Together, we embrace every learner's unique journey.

Every child deserves to be understood. Thank you for having us.

05/06/2025

And so with reading..

Their pace NOT your pace. Do not rush them dear parents, please.

LET THEM PLAY (NOT with the gadgets, television and cellphones).

So many parents are often worried about why their child is not able to write by the age of 4 and why instead of writing, the teacher is allowing them to play, or be creative with intricate or fine motor materials?

This picture explains why.

Up until 6 years of age, their tiny hands are still developing and are not fully formed. Children require progressive development in their hands to enable them to grasp and hold things and eventually develop their writing skills.

Like any muscles, we must train them, strengthen them and ‘work out’ to get them stronger - this is just the same for the muscles in children’s hands.

So what should be done to support this?

PLAY! Playdough, colouring, tearing, sensory play, beading, picking cotton balls with tweezer/cloth clips, cleaning, wiping, holding, grabbing, sweeping, cutting, planting, digging etc.

These types of activities may not seem like education to you, but they are the foundations of what is to come. Rush the process and the results will be catastrophic.

We must allow our children to develop their fine motor skills which in turn, develop the skills required for early, emergent writing and later full writing skills.

When children are ready to write, they will. No need to rush them, they will show you when they are ready 🙂

© Gavin McCormack

01/06/2025

Screens are raising our kids — but should they? 🤔

🗓 June 22 | ⏰ 8:30 AM | 📍Camp Riverpark

Dr. Paul Filomeno, Founder of Healthy Screens PH, will share what every parent needs to know.

🎁 Join us! Includes buffet lunch!

13/05/2025

Yes..

"Make childhood great again!"