The 3Cs Story
Specialising in special children
Naomi Richards, a highly qualified behavioral specialist, has created the Cultivating Conscious Control (the 3Cs) Curriculum to give families simple and clear strategies to use in their daily lives. The curriculum is aimed to assist children to become the best version of themselves. After having children with additional needs herself, she had dedicated the last 20 years to teaching families to recognise the feelings and emotions they are displaying, and how to address each emotion.
The 3Cs helps families flourish in their emotional development. Naomi love’s watching children and families go from anxious, stressed, frustrated, angry and worried to happy, calm, caring, harmonious, loving and in-control. The 3Cs teaches people how to deal with their emotions in the healthiest ways.
Is your child...
Exhibiting behaviour problems?
The 3Cs Curriculum guides children to be in-control of their emotions so they are not controlled by them! Our curriculum empowers your child to be the best version of themselves.
Struggling emotionally at school?
Struggling with emotions is a tough job, especially at a young age. The 3Cs gives children the ability to recognise their emotions and deal with them in a positive way.
Unhappy, stressed or difficult to live with?
No one is perfect… but what the 3Cs is focused on is teaching families to recognise, take charge and learn to be in-control, rather than living on the verge of out-of-control.
Diagnosis
We work with all types of disabilities. Here are a few we specialise in.
Autism is a developmental disorder that affects the brain. It is a complex condition that mostly impairs communication, social interaction and creative play. People with autism often have problems forming relationships, and interacting with and responding to the world.
Signs of autism usually appear in the first three years of life and continue through adulthood. Autism belongs to a wide range of pervasive developmental disorders that include autism, autism spectrum disorders, Asperger’s syndrome, and other conditions with similar features. The effect of autism ranges from mild social impairment to severe disability.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (abbreviated as ADHD or sometimes just ADD) affects mostly children but also some adults. ADHD involves symptoms including inattention, hyperactivity and impulsive behaviour. These symptoms are associated with learning, behavioural and emotional problems.
There are 3 types of ADD/ADHD
Inattentive means a person is easily distractible or inattentive but isn’t hyperactive or impulsive.
Hyperactive-Impulsive occurs when a person has symptoms of impulsivity and hyperactivity.
Combined ADHD is where a person has a mixture of symptoms including hyperactivity, inattention, and impulsivity.
OCD is an anxiety disorder. People living with OCD are troubled by recurring unwanted thoughts, images, or impulses, as well as obsessions and repetitive rituals. People with OCD are usually aware that their symptoms are irrational and excessive, but they find the obsessions uncontrollable and the compulsions impossible to resist.
OCD is an easily misunderstood condition, and can be highly distressing for both the person affected and their family and friends.
Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) is a persistent behavioural pattern of angry or irritable mood; argumentative, defiant behaviour towards authority figures; and vindictiveness. In some children with ODD, these behaviours are only in evidence in one setting—usually at home. In more severe cases they occur in multiple settings. For a diagnosis of ODD, the frequency and intensity of these behaviours must be outside the typical range for a child’s developmental level, gender and culture.
Conduct disorder is a serious behavioral and emotional disorder that can occur in children and teens. A child with this disorder may display a pattern of disruptive and violent behavior and have problems following rules.
It is not uncommon for children and teens to have behavior-related problems at some time during their development. However, the behavior is considered to be a conduct disorder when it is long-lasting and when it violates the rights of others, goes against accepted norms of behavior and disrupts the child’s or family’s everyday life.
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494 The Esplanade, Warners Bay, NSW, 2282