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Useful Links
Becoming a parent is the hardest and most rewarding role you'll ever have the privilege to experience. Having a child with special needs just adds another dimension to parenting and comes with its own unique challenges again. Since the invention of the internet and social media it has become easier to access information and support. However. where do you start? Here I have linked some useful sites that you may find useful. Many of these sites cover a range of topics and support.
The Statutory SEND Team deliver all of the local authority’s statutory duties in relation to SEND:
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Managing the statutory EHC needs assessment process
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Reviewing the Education, Health, and Care plans (EHC plans)
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Commissioning of educational placements/packages for children and young people who have EHC plans
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Chairing and coordinating the multi-agency statutory panel
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Ensuring provision of independent information, advice and support service for parents/carers and children/young people
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Dispute resolution including disagreement resolution, mediations and tribunals
Want to make request for your child to be assessed. her you will find a template you can use.
Here you will find the NHS guides to Autism and the process of getting diagnosed.
Our Mission. “We will support all service users affected by an Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) regardless of age or what stage of life they are at.
Safe and happy childhoods. We protect and support children and young people, providing practical and emotional care and support. We ensure their voices are heard, and campaign to bring lasting improvements to their lives.
We're Scope, the disability equality charity in England and Wales. We provide practical information and emotional support when it's most needed, and campaign relentlessly to create a fairer society.
Not sure what all the abbreviations mean? Struggling with understanding the language? Check our our Jargon Buster.
Our advice and guidance section has a wide range of information about autism. There are 24 different topics, including diagnosis, behaviour, communication, loneliness, sensory differences, mental health, benefits and money, education, and more.
Our Small Wonders provides information, advice and support on autism for Pakistani communities. Together we can help our children become the best version of themselves.
As parents and carers of autistic children, young people and adults, it can be hard to find help when you’re trying to get the right support. Autism Central aims to make it easier to learn more about autism and services available to you.
The Right from the Start toolkit contains a wealth of straightforward information in one place to guide parents and carers through their child’s journey in the early years.
Being diagnosed as autistic can be difficult to come to terms with. You may be coping with a condition that you know very little about, and wondering how to get appropriate support.
Alternatively, you may have known that you are autistic for a while and find the diagnosis a relief. Although looking for support with adult life, many autistic people celebrate their neurodiversity and unique strengths and qualities.  
Here you can find support after diagnosis.
Supporting families with babies and young children who have a wide range of special needs and disabilities.
We provide the highest quality learning experiences and support that will enable each child attending TOG to achieve their full potential. We recognise that this will be different for each individual child and celebrate each child’s achievements; whether they are small steps forward in their development, or bigger ones. We aim to achieve this by providing a rich and stimulating learning environment where children are supported by skilled adults who have excellent child development knowledge.
Autism Speaks is dedicated to creating an inclusive world for all individuals with autism throughout their lifespan.
Through the years, we’ve worked tirelessly to provide crucial autism research, advocacy, services and support to help people with autism and those who support them thrive. Together we stand for a world of difference. Here are some of our proudest accomplishments to-date.
Everyone deserves to live fully. At the core of the Autism Society’s work is our goal to influence meaningful change in support of the Autism community.
We want even more autistic children and young people to have happy and fulfilling lives that give them dignity, respect and compassion.
Over the next three years, we will continue to build on our core expertise in education and employability while engaging more than ever before in the other areas that are essential for autistic children and young people to lead a fulfilling life, such as having supportive families and relationships, good health and wellbeing and being active citizens in their communities.
We are widening the reach of good autism practice and support to all professionals working with autistic children & young people.
We help those supporting people with complex needs – including our members, universities, government departments, local authorities, NHS trusts, service providers and mainstream organisations - to champion rights, ensure excellent support and continually improve practice. We offer:
Workforce development, accreditation and training
Organisational development and consultancy
Grant-funded projects to support government initiatives
Communities of Practice, guidance publications and conferences
Middletown Centre provides a range of training opportunities for parents, carers and educational professionals in Ireland and Northern Ireland. The Centre has a full training calendar of face to face and online sessions, which can be managed using the Centre’s app The Centre, in partnership with Mary Immaculate College Limerick provides a Graduate Certificate, Diploma and MA in Autism Studies Individual schools can apply for whole school training and these are provided in partnership with the EA in Northern Ireland and The NCSE in Ireland. Further information on applying for a whole school training is available by contacting us using the email training@middletownautism.com
We deliver assessments and bespoke developmental therapy to children and young adults age 6 months to 25 years old and training to parents and professionals. We see them with or without a diagnosis and support a wide range of difficulties. Including conditions such as autism, ADHD, cerebral palsy, global developmental delay (GDD), Down’s syndrome, sensory processing difficulties and many more.
Somerset SENDIAS provides information, advice and support about special educational needs and disability (SEND) for parent carers, children and young people (up to the age of 25).
The service is free, confidential and impartial.
IPSEA offers free and independent legally based information, advice and support, to help get the right education for children and young people with all kinds of special needs.
The Curly Hair Project is an organisation that helps people on the autistic spectrum and the people around them, founded by autistic author Alis Rowe. We use cool things like animated films, stories, comic strips and diagrams to make our work interesting and easy to understand!
Somerset EHCP Support Group
SEN Parent Support Group
Coffee, Chat and Support
Autism Parents Support Group
AuSomer - A group for the Autistic Community in Somerset
