Elephant Pediatric Clinic · Toronto
Articles, tips, and insights from our team.
Why children may seem unmotivated to be organized, on time, or responsible, and how executive functioning, confidence, anxiety, ADHD, and independence can affect routines.
Learn what cognitive flexibility means in children, why some children struggle with transitions, changes, mistakes, losing, and “not my way” moments.
Learn what impulse control and inhibition mean in children and how they affect waiting, interrupting, grabbing, movement, emotional reactions, safety, attention, and social participation.
Learn what working memory means in children and how it affects following instructions, learning, writing, reading, math, routines, attention, and task completion.
Learn what executive functioning means in children and how planning, working memory, impulse control, flexibility, organization, and self-monitoring affect learning and daily life.
Learn why children start tasks but do not finish them, including attention, executive functioning, working memory, ADHD, anxiety, motivation, and task difficulty.
Learn why children get distracted in class, including attention, sensory filtering, processing speed, comprehension, working memory, emotions, and ADHD.
Learn why children may need instructions repeated many times, including attention, working memory, language comprehension, hearing, executive functioning, anxiety, and motivation.
Learn why children may focus on preferred activities but struggle with schoolwork, including ADHD, motivation, executive functioning, anxiety, and task demand.
Learn why children chew on shirts, pencils, toys, or objects, including oral sensory seeking, anxiety, ADHD, autism, self-regulation, and safety concerns.
Learn why children may be sensitive to clothing, touch, grooming, messy play, or food textures, including sensory processing, autism, anxiety, and feeding concerns.
Learn why children constantly move, jump, climb, crash, or struggle to sit still, including sensory seeking, ADHD, anxiety, body awareness, and regulation.
Learn why children cover their ears, including sound sensitivity, sensory processing, autism, anxiety, emotional regulation, and when to seek support.
Learn how attention develops in children and how sensory regulation, arousal, emotions, motivation, ADHD, and ASD can affect focus.
Learn how sensory processing difficulties affect children’s attention, behaviour, emotional regulation, learning, and daily participation
