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Useful Downloads
Booklets and leaflets on various topics, offering advice and support. Just click on the name to open them up.
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Attention Deficit Disorder/ADHD:
Autistic Spectrum Condition
Motor skills:
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Speech and language:
Useful links
Special Friends and Snug Support group
A parent led support group in Towcester that provides weekly support for parents and carers of children and young adults with additional needs. Free play sessions (usually with use of a sensory room), guest speakers and coffee mornings. Tel: 01280 840066 or 07709608635.
Email: specialfriends@outlook.com
ADHD Matters
A Northamptonshire service offering information, advice and guidance on all aspects of ADHD and related conditions. They can be contacted by phone, email, social media or their website. Working directly with families, professionals and schools to support young people and their families enabling them to understand ADHD, working together to change the negative perception of ADHD into positive.
Autism Concern
Autism Concern serves Northamptonshire’s autism community with play schemes, youth groups, family support service and training as well as raising awareness of autism and raising money to fund, sustain and create new schemes
Autism Family Support Oxfordshire
Charity supporting children and young people aged 0-25 years old, with Autism Spectrum Disorder, and their families; within the area of Oxfordshire and near neighbours. They offer support to families by providing information, training, workshops and networking.
NHS Choices
Use the search box to find details on the signs, symptoms, supports and treatments for conditions which may affect a child's learning. Includes Anxiety, Autism Spectrum Disorder, ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Learning disabilities, OCD and Stammering
YoungMinds
The UK’s leading charity committed to improving the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people. Advice, training and support.
Ask Normen
This site is for everyone with an interest in the emotional wellbeing and mental health of children and young people in Northamptonshire
Family Fund
Providing grants to families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people to ensure they have the same opportunities as others. Grants are for essential items such as washing machines, clothes, laptops, outdoor play equipment and family breaks.
Tired Out
A support hub where families raising disabled or seriously ill children and young people can access and share advice, information and support on sleep issues
Language skills
Improving your child's language skills will have a huge impact on their literacy, social skills, confidence, higher order thinking and problem solving ability. The Communication Trust has lots of ideas on how to support your child.
Children's Mobility and Sensory Equipment | Caudwell Children
A piece of specialist mobility equipment or sensory equipment can help families overcome practical and physical challenges but also offer invaluable independence, confidence and improved self-esteem.
Caudwell Children provides a wide range of specialist mobility equipment and sensory equipment for disabled and autistic children/young people. For more information please read our Frequently Asked Questions below or contact us for more information, call 0345 300 1348 or email applications@caudwellchildren.com