SEN support page
Children, Young People and Families Services
NHS resources and advice:
Mental and Emotional Health - Coping Behaviours; Managing Feelings; Gender and sexual identity and General Advice.
Health and Development - Communication and hearing; Child Safety; Independence and school readiness; Eating, allergies and healthy lifestyle; Fine Motor Skills; Gross Motor Skills; Immunisations; Sensory processing; School health; Toilet training and bedwetting; Your Baby and you.
ADHD and Autism (Neurodiversity) - ADHD; Getting help now; How to support with attention, activity, emotions and behaviour; How to support with communication, sensory needs, emotions and behaviour; How to request help; About the request for help process; Waiting times.
Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) - How it works; How to get support; Find your Local Offer
Services - Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS); Neurodiversity Service (Autism and ADHD); Children and Young People's Integrated Therapies; Public Health Nursing; Specialist Children's Services; Training
Autism and ADHD support services in East Berkshire
GEMS provides support for parent carers in developing a better understanding of Autism & ADHD, helping them to feel empowered to implement strategies within the home environment.
Some of the key things they offer are workshops, animations and social groups.
Supporting and empowering families of neurodivergent children and young people, as well as those with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or early life trauma.
Covering trauma, neurodivergence, sleep and transitions, Parenting Special Children offer a range of resources, support directed to parents & carers, support for young people and training.
Children and Young People's Integrated Therapies
Occupational Therapy
Physiotherapy
Speech and Language Therapy
Early language development workshops
Sensory Processing online workshops
Handwriting Essentials online workshops
Eric - The Children's Bowel and Bladder Charity
A national charity dedicated to improving children's bowel and bladder health, with a mission to reduce the impact of continence problems on children and their families.
Cerebra - Sleep Advice Service
Sleep Tips, Sleep Advice Service and parent information and advice booklets on a range of topics including Anxiety, Continence, Autism, Behaviour, Communication, DLA, Emotions, Sensory Processing and Sleep.
Recommended by the Mental Health Support Team:
CAMHS Resources Website: This website was created for young people, carers, and professionals to pool together lots of helpful resources from across the internet that are available to help support mental health and well-being.
MoodJuice: an online resource designed to help think about emotional problems and work towards solving them. It has information and advice for those experiencing troublesome thoughts, feelings and actions.
Young Minds: a mental health charity for children, young people and their parents.