In June, I got a call from a Mum; ‘My 7yr old son is very anxious, is on the Autism Spectrum, and doesn’t really pay attention, but I have heard you may be able to teach him to ride a bike – I would like that so much – can you help?’ After a quick discussion to find out a bit more about her son, (whom I shall call Q) we arranged to have 3x1hr sessions here in Brooklyn Park. An invoice was sent to their NDIS Plan manager, and the social story was sent out for the mum and…

Last weekend I had a 9yr old come for his 2nd lesson; he’d learnt to ride in L1 and had been amazed that he could do it; around and around he rode; stopping, starting using gears. Upon arriving at lesson 2, his dad had told me that in between lessons the he and his son gone to the local park to do some riding practise; the dad told me that the practise didn’t start well, and the son got very down about this and started to spiral his thoughts ‘I can’t; it’s not going to work’. In the park, the…