Useful Links
AbilityNet
AbilityNet is a national charity helping disabled adults and children use computers and the internet by adapting and adjusting their technology
PO Box 94
Warwick
CV34 5WS
Phone: 0800 269 545
Email: enquiries@abilitynet.org.uk
Website: http://www.abilitynet.org.uk
ACE (Aiding Communication in Education)
ACE Centre (Aiding Communication in Education), is an organisation which provides a variety of services including in-depth individual assessments, information, and specialist training for parents and professionals on the use of technology for young people with physical and communication difficulties
Contact Address:-
92 Windmill Road
Headington
Oxford
OX3 7DR
Tel: 01865 759 800
Email: info@ace-centre.org.uk
Website: www.ace-centre.org.uk
British Institute for Brain Injured Children (BIBIC)
BIBIC offers help to families caring for children with brain injury, conditions such as autism and cerebral palsy and learning difficulties such as ADHD, dyslexia and dyspraxia
Address:
Knowle Hall
Bridgwater
Somerset
TA7 8PJ
Phone: 01278 684 060
Email: info@bibic.org.uk
Website: http://www.bibic.org.uk
The Challenging Behaviour Foundation
The Challenging Behaviour Foundation exists to demonstrate that individuals with severe learning disabilities who are described as having challenging behaviour can enjoy normal life opportunities when their behaviour is properly understood and appropriately managed, and to support parents and carers through education and information to enable this to happen.
Their aims are:
1. To provide information and support to parents and professionals caring for individuals with severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour
2. To demonstrate how local service provision for individuals with severe learning disabilities and challenging behaviour can be improved, and to actively facilitate such provision on a national basis
3. To highlight the needs of those with challenging behaviour and to influence policy on their behalf
4. To promote research into challenging behaviour associated with severe learning disabilities and to disseminate the results of such research so that practical benefits are gained
Email: info@thecbf.org.uk
Address:
The Challenging Behaviour Foundation
c/o The Old Courthouse
New Road Avenue
Chatham
Kent
ME4 6BE
Tel: 01634 838739
Foundation for people with Learning Difficulties
The Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities works to promote the rights, quality of life and opportunities of people with learning disabilities and their families
Address:
9th Floor
Sea Containers House
20 Upper Ground
London
SE1 9QB
Phone: 020 7803 1100
Email: fpld@fpld.org.uk
Website: http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk
I CAN
I CAN works to foster the development of speech, language and communication skills with a special focus on children with a communication disability
Address:
4 Dyer's Buildings
Holborn
London
EC1N 2QP
Phone: 08452 254 071
Website: http://www.ican.org.uk
Network 81
Network 81 is a national network of parents working towards properly resourced inclusive education for children with special educational needs.
Network 81 Aims :
To advance the education of children with special needs
To educate the parents of such children about all matters relating to the education of their children
To link up and support groups and individual parents of children with special educational needs
To raise awareness and publicise good practice in inclusive education
To encourage parents to take their rightful place in education policy-making
To promote parent-professional partnership
Address:
1-7 Woodfield Terrace,
Stansted,
Essex,
CM24 8AJ
Helpline : 0870 770 3306
Admin : 0870 770 3262
Fax : 0870 770 3263
Email : info@network81.org
Website: http://www.network81.org
One For Us!!!!!!
Welcome to One For Us... the web site for people who have a learning difficulty.
You will find information and stories about people who have a learning difficulty.
This is a place for you to be proud of achievements and to learn how to take more control over your own life.
One For Us is special, it's not for parents and carers, it's for you!
Website: www.oneforus.com
Parents for Inclusion
Parents for Inclusion is a network of parents of disabled children and children with 'special needs'. In our families and as an organisation we have worked together with disabled people to build inclusive communities in ordinary life, where all people are truly welcome.
We are a national charity, and started in 1984 as Parents in Partnership. Our experiences have led us to develop the following 'tools' for parents. Most importantly, we work closely with disabled adults, to bring their understanding and experience to parents, so that parents can become real allies to their disabled children.
Address:
Winchester House
Kennington Park Business Estate
Cranmer Road
London
SW9 6EJ
Email: info@parentsforinclusion.org
Admin 020 7735 7735
Freephone Helpline: 0800 652 3145
Helpline: 020 7582 5008
Parentline Plus
Parentline Plus is a national charity that works for, and with, parents.
They know that parents want to do the best they can for their children, but sometimes family life can be challenging and difficult. There is after all, no one right way to parent.
In the UK there are over 24 million people who parent – it’s not just mums and dads who do it. Families come in all shapes and sizes. Grandparents, stepparents, brothers, sisters, other relatives, friends and foster carers are all involved in raising happy, healthy children.
Parentline Plus works to offer help and support through an innovative range of free, flexible, responsive services - shaped by parents for parents.
General enquiries
Contact the Central Office team on tel: 020 7284 5500 for general information on Parentline Plus and its services.
Website: www.parentlineplus.org.uk
Alternatively their postal address is:
Parentline Plus,
520 Highgate Studios,
53-79 Highgate Road,
Kentish Town,
London, NW5 1TL
Please note that this is not the place to ask for parenting support: use the confidential email support service instead.
Sibs
Sibs is the UK charity for people who grow up with a disabled brother or sister.
They support siblings who are growing up with or who have grown up with a brother or sister with any disability, long term chronic illness, or life limiting condition.
There are over half a million young siblings and over a million adult siblings in the UK. Siblings have specific needs that require attention at different stages of their lives, including relief of isolation, information, and strategies for coping with the situations they find themselves in.
Their aim is to enhance the lives of siblings by providing them with information and support, and by influencing service provision for siblings throughout the UK.
Their long term vision is that each local authority in the UK will have a dedicated sibling service, providing sibling groups and one to one support for children who are siblings.
Address –
Sibs,
Meadowfield,
Oxenhope,
West Yorkshire,
BD22 9JD
Phone - 01535 645453
Email - please use the form below
Website: www.sibs.org.uk
Speakeasy Advocacy
Providing a voice and support to people with learning difficulties, autistic spectrum disorders and/or Aspergers syndrome in Basingstoke and throughout Hampshire
Address:
17 New Road
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 7PR
Telephone:
01256 332795
Please leave a message if we cannot answer the phone
Email: speakeasy.advocacy@btconnect.com
Website: www.speakeasyadvocacy.org.uk
Tree House - Autism Education
http://www.treehouse.org.uk/
Hart & Rushmoor NAS
http://www.nashartandrushmoor.org.uk/default.htm
Surrey NAS Branch
http://www.mugsy.org/
Speakeasy Advocacy
http://www.speakeasyadvocacy.org.uk/about.html
The Autism File Magazine
http://www.autismfile.co.uk/
Parent Line PLus
http://www.parentlineplus.org.uk/