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For the Caregiver- Parents & Carers

is my loved one special

Where do i begin?

  • Who to contact
  • What information to take to an appointment
  • Tips to get a quicker diagnosis

COMMON DIFFERENCES AND DIAGNOSES

  • AUTISM 
  • ASPERGERS
  • FRAGILE X
  • DOWNS SYNDROME
  • ADHD
  • TOURETTES 
  • DYSPRAXIA
  • DYSLEXIA
  • MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
  • ADDICTION RECOVERY

AFTER DIAGNOSIS - OTHER THINGS TO CHECK

  • General health issues
  • Sight tests
  • Hearing tests
  • Diet and allergies
  • Developmental Progress
  • Sensory Issues
  • Environmental Factors (Indoor & Outdoor)

practical things

  • Seat belts and cruel harnesses
  • Large buggies
  • Non slip mats
  • Things that are easier to hold
  • Clothes that are easier to put on and take off
  • Buttons – an introduction to backchaining
  • Learning to put socks on
  • Learning to tie shoe laces
  • Things to write with
  • Weighted blankets
  • Weighted clothes
  • Pain threshold
  • Picky eaters
  • Eats too much
  • Smearing poo
  • Toe walkers
  • Sensory sensitivity
  • Irritable clothing and fabrics
  • Being clingy
  • Not sleeping
  • Not dry yet – still in nappies
  • Support Animals

SUPPORT FOR YOU

  • Family and friends
  • Local buddies
  • Support groups
  • A carer’s assessment
  • Look after yourself
  • Relationship with your partner

work

  • Earning some money
  • Working from home

Benefits & things to apply for

  • Benefits  0-18 years old
  • Benefits  Families and carers
  • Carers allowance
  • Registering as vulnerable with utility companies
  • CEA card
  • Disability badge scheme
  • Disability vehicles
  • Reductions in council tax etc 

health

  • General health advice
  • First aid
  • Accidents
  • Accident and emergency departments
  • Emergency services
  • Coronavirus
  • What if I get ill?
  • Hospital appointments - special arrangements and staff
  • Planned hospital admission 
  • Emergency hospital admission 
  • Operations and procedures hospital admission 
  • GP
  • Psychiatrist
  • Psychologist
  • Counsellor
  • Dentist
  • Podiatrist
  • Chiropodist
  • Health + safety creating a safe home
  • Medication types
  • Medication  Safety

therapy

  • Physiotherapy
  • Occupational therapy
  • Speech and language therapy
  • Sensory integration therapy
  • Music therapy
  • Art therapy
  • Drama therapy
  • Talking therapies – Counselling
  • Talking therapies - CBT

mental health

  • Fear
  • Anxiety
  • Depression
  • Mood swings
  • Suicide
  • Genetic pre-disposition
  • Family illness - sudden
  • Family illness - chronic
  • Bereavement
  • Family pets
  • Support and therapy animals
  • Treatment
  • Building resilience

enhancing progress & learning

  • Child development summary
  • Simple learning theory
  • Tips for parents 

tools for life

  • Toolkits
  • Person centred plans 
  • Education, health and care plans (EHCPs)

BEHAVIOUR & societal expectations

  • Tourette's
  • Autism
  • ADHD / B
  • Blind
  • Deaf
  • Physically challenged
  • Challenging behaviour
  • Unusual behaviour 

strategies & programmes

  • Social Communication + Social Skills
  • ABA

learning at home

  • PORTAGE  -  a home-visiting educational service for pre-school children with SEND and their families 
  • Incidental learning with mum, dad or carers
  • An informal group with friends
  • Home schooling
  • Home programme
  • Preparing for supported living from childhood

education

  • Early Years Alliance - The largest voluntary sector provider of early years affordable childcare and education in England 
  • Pre-schools
  • Nursery schools
  • Choice of schools – state, private, special etc
  • How schools work
  • Nursery school
  • Primary school
  • Secondary school
  • College
  • University
  • Adult and community learning
  • Travel training 

supported living

  • Supported living
  • Direct payments
  • Personal assistants
  • Creating a good team
  • Social care
  • Benefits at 18+
  • Registering as vulnerable with utility companies
  • CEA card

technology

  • Computers
  • Software
  • Apps
  • Mobile phones
  • Other mobile devices
  • Other technologies
  • Humanistic technology + ethics

Social enterprise

  • Art gallery
  • Producing and making things
  • Crafting
  • Home-made things and gifts
  • Selling things
  • Marketplace
  • Social entrepreneurship (small business, selling on eBay, PayPal, tips and info etc.)
  • Community initiatives 
  • Walking train etc.
  • Voluntary stuff 
  • Submit your own idea

legal stuff

  • Know your rights
  • Disability discrimination 
  • Financial planning
  • Power of attorney
  • Making a will

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