Mindroom are now able to take new referrals for young people who have; Completed a Neurodevelopment Assessment (the assessment does not need to have resulted in a formal diagnosis). Would like some support to processes this, reflect on the assessment process and explore their unique needs with a supportive, skilled professional. Requests for this service should be made via The Single Point of Access. Information on how to do this, alongside the most up to date form can be found here.
Other Organisations That Could Help
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DYSLEXIA
DYSCALCULIA
AUTISM
What the Service Does: Team United provide multi-sport camps during the holiday periods for neurodivergent young people aged 10-15 years. This includes football, basketball, volleyball, badminton and more!
Age Range: The project is aimed at children and young people between the age of 10 and 15.
How to Access: Families can self-refer by contacting the email address ben@teamunited.org.uk
Webinars available:
Food and Eating
Sensory Processing
Anxiety in Autistic Children
Masking/Camouflageing
Supporting Attention and Inhibition
Emotion Regulation
Puberty & First Periods
Physical Activity
Sleep
Teens with Executive Functions
Teens and Exams
More....
What the Service Does: Epic provides webinars and individual sessions online for parents and carers of 5-12 year olds with ADHD, Autism, DCD/Dyspraxia or FASD, or for those who are awaiting an assessment. The sessions will focus on attention, memory, planning, timing, organisation and regulation. No diagnosis is required.
Age Range: The project is aimed at parents of children and young people between 5 and 12 years old.
How to Access: Families can self-refer by contacting the email address hello@epicthinklearn.com
What the Service Does: Choose Play organise and facilitate free play opportunities for children, young people and their families. Through this project they will be providing regular, family play sessions with neurodiverse children and young people in mind. These will be delivered in a safe, secure space and with play workers on hand to support where needed. Sessions involve a range of play activities such as arts and crafts, loose parts and sensory play.
Age Range: These are family play sessions; the children are expected to be predominantly between 2 and 12 but the sessions are open to the family as a whole. Siblings, aunts, cousins, friends are all welcome to attend.
How to Access: Information on where Choose Play are facilitating sessions can be found on their website - https://elpa.org.uk/calendar/ or by emailing info@elpa.org.uk
DOWN'S SYNDROME
SIGNALONG
Signalong is a sign supported communication system, designed to help children and adults with communication difficulties. It is designed to support spoken language to help people with communication difficulties understand and express themselves.
Unlike British Sign Language training, or that provided by some other organisations, Signalong training focuses on developing communication skills rather than teaching blocks of signs, many of which will be quickly forgotten through lack of use. The precise Signalong method of presentation enables users to remind themselves of signs which have been forgotten and to learn new signs from the manuals. Training programmes therefore focus on the application of sign-supported communication, e.g. aspects of total communication, such as facial expression, body language and voice tone; plus simplification of language and keyword selection.
The ASN team in East Lothian offer Signalong training sessions on request to schools and nurseries. This could be for individual children and staff associated with them. There are also Introductory and Foundation courses available for parents and nurseries, which schools can request if they have a minimum of 8 people to train. Training sessions are tailored to need, e.g. 1 or 1.5 hour refresher sessions, 2 hour training or 15 hour accredited Signalong course
Find out more by clicking on the Signalong graphic above left.