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- Old Trafford, Atherton House, 88-92 Talbot Road, Manchester, M16 0GS
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Meridian, Together Trust
Location: Stockport
Meridian Short Break Services can be funded via individual budgets or direct payments. We also work with brokerage services to deliver tailored packages of support to meet your budget and goals. For further information and to arrange a service visit please contact us on 0161 485 7235, email us at enquiries@togethertrust.org.uk or visit www.togethertrust.org.uk
Meridian- short break care provision for children and young people with autism and associated challenging behaviours, learning and communication difficulties.
Accredited by the National Autistic Society, Meridian provides a secure, well-equipped outdoor play area, sensory rooms and communal living areas where young people are encouraged to develop their life skills.
- Address: Meridian Respite Centre, 64 Station Road, Stockport, SK8 7BH
For more information:
- Telephone: 0161 485 7235 / 0161 283 4848 / 0800 013 0014
The National Autistic Society Family Services and the Greater Manchester Autism Consortium
Location: Manchester
We are a Greater Manchester-wide project co-funded by the 10 Local Authorities to provide independent and specialist information and advice to people with autism, family carers and professionals. We are also funded to work with Local Authorities around developing and improving services for those living with autism.
We can advise and offer support on a range of issues affecting children and adults with autism, with and without additional learning disabilities. We follow up most of the calls we receive by sending relevant information to the caller and, where appropriate, signposting them to other services in their local area.
We also offer an email service which enables us to inform people of relevant training, leisure activites etc.
Referral Method: Self Referral, Telephone or by Appointment.
Cost: Free
Opening Hours: Monday to Friday 9am-5pm
Email: mari.saeki@nas.org.uk or Debbie.waters@nas.org.uk
National Autistic Society National Helpline Tel: 0808 800 4104
- Address:
- Anglo House, Chapel Road, Manchester, M22 4JN
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Together Trust
Location: Stockport
The Together Trust is a charity that offers care, support and special education to children, adults and families. Our services are based in North West England and the surrounding areas; however we accept referrals from all over the UK.
We believe everybody deserves an equal chance in life. There are no exceptions.
This includes those with behavioural problems, learning difficulties, physical disabilities and autism spectrum conditions. Everyone has the ability and the right to experience joy, happiness and hope.
Together Trust can accept direct referrals for some services however for more information please contact us on 0161 283 4848 or visit www.togethertrust.org.uk
The Together Trust is a voluntary organisation providing a wide range of care, special education and community services for children and adults with autism, learning difficulties and/or complex needs.
At the Together Trust we believe everybody deserves an equal chance in life. There are no exceptions. We provide a wide range of support services including fostering, residential, community, family support and specialist educational support through our schools and college.
We can also offer families and carers a wide range of training, consultancy and support to help people make choices and have control. We accept referrals from all over the UK with our services based in the North West of England and the surrounding areas.
In addition to local authority funded places, our services can be purchased by families, carers, and service users over the age of 18 or their brokers via a direct payment, individual budget, individual service fund or personal/private funds.
View our videos on YouTube-https://www.youtube.com/user/Thetogethertrust
- Address: Together Trust Centre, Schools Hill, Cheadle, Stockport, SK8 1JE
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Social Emotional & Mental Health Inclusion Service (SEMH)
Location: Hyde
The service offers a time limited intervention to non-maintained early years settings and to foundation stages within schools to promote positive behaviour. All SEMH staff are trained in behaviour management and de-escalation techniques. Each intervention includes work with target groups of children, staff and parent workshops and monitoring visits following the intervention.
Open: 9.00am-4.00pm Monday to Friday (service delivered term time only)
Referral details: By application from the school or Early Years setting to the service.
Access/Facilities: Parking and Disabled Access
Age Range: 3-16 years
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Community Occupational Therapy Team
Location: Hyde
Assessment of children with additional needs and the needs of their carers. In particular ensuring safe access in the home environment to toilet, sleeping and washing facilities within the Local Authority's agreed guidelines for provision of equipment and adaptations. Enabling optimum independence and advising carers in the provision of care.
Open: Monday to Wednesday 8.30am-5.00pm, Thursday 8.30am-4.30pm and Friday 8.30am-4.00pm
Referral Details: By telephone
Facilities: Disabled access and parking
Age Range: 0-18 years
- Address: Rowan House, Grange Road, Hyde, SK14 5NY
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Children's Physiotherapy
Location: Hyde
A child and family centred physiotherapy service that takes place at various locations across Tameside. Please contact the service for further information.
Referral Details: By professional
Access/Facilities: Please contact to arrange a suitable venue
Age Range: 0-16 years (0-19 years if the young person is in college)
- Address: Rowan House, Grange Road South, Hyde, SK15 2DX
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CLASS
Location: Denton
CLASS aim to enable pupils with Social Communication difficulties including Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD), or with Specific Language Impairments (SLI) to reach their maximum academic and social potential in an inclusive educational environment.
We have an outreach team working with Portage teams, in maintained and non maintained preschool settings and mainstream and special primary and secondary schools. We also have a primary and a secondary ASD Resource base attached to mainstream schools.
We offer training to schools, parents and other professionals.
We have a resource library with a big selection of books and resources to do with ASD and Specific Language Impairments
Open: School Hours
Referral Details: Through setting or Portage worker
Access and Facilities: Disabled Access and Parking Available
Cost: Free to LA schools and to early years settings
Age ranges: 2-16 years
- Address:
- St John Fisher Primary School, Manor Road, Haughton Green, Denton, M34 7SW
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Children’s Speech and Language Therapy
Location: Hyde
We support families and /or carers whose children:
- have unclear speech
- need support developing language
- need support understanding language
- find it challenging to use language socially e.g. to develop relationships with other children
- are stammering
- need support with eating and drinking safely
- Support for the young person may involve 1:1 sessions and / or groups. These sessions may be led by a Speech and Language Therapist or by one of our team of Speech and Language Therapy Assistants.
We also offer training for parents and school / nursery staff to help develop the skills of those that work or have contact with the young person.
We can also work with schools using service level agreements (SLAs). This means that settings can access additional therapy to that which is provided as part of the local offer.
Open: 8.30am to 5.00pm, Monday to Friday excluding public holidays
Access/Facilities: Disabled access and parking
Age Range: 0-19 years
- Address: ISCAN (Integrated Service for Children with Additional Needs), Rowan House, Grange Road South, Hyde, SK14 5NU.
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Family Information Service (FIS)
Location: Ashton-under-Lyne
Offers impartial information, advice & support to parents, carers, professionals & providers on:
- Ofsted Registered childcare ie Childminders, Private Day Nurseries, Pre-school Playgroups & Out of School Clubs.
- Free Entitlement Funding (FEF) - free 15 hours of childcare for 2, 3 & 4 year olds.
- Information for parents / carers with children with Special Educational Needs & Disabilities (SEND).
- Leisure activities ie Time for a Rhyme, Active Tameside, Children's Centres activities, etc.
- Financial support relating to childcare ie 30 hours of free childcare for working parents, tax free childcare, etc
- Early Help Service – family support information, advice & guidance including self-referrals over the telephone.
- Advice to people seeking a career in childminding or setting up a childcare business.
Opening hours: Monday to Wednesday 8.30am - 5.00pm. Thursday 8.30am - 4.30pm & Friday 8.30am - 4.00pm
Referral Details: By telephone or email
Access and Facilities: Disabled Access
- Address: St Peter’s Children Centre, Trafalgar Square, Ashton-under-Lyne OL7 0LL
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Contact
Contact is a UK charity providing advice, information and support to families with disabled children. We can put families in touch with support groups for specific medical conditions as well as linking individual families affected by a rare disorder.
We have a web based linking service whereby parents can register to be contacted by other families across the world affected by a particular condition. Our freephone has a specialist welfare rights advisor and can provide information and advice on benefits. We also have fact sheets on a range of subjects and regular national and local magazines and newsletters. Some information is available in community languages and they have access to Language Line interpreters over the telephone.
They also offer advice and guidance to parents who wish to staff a local or national support group. The team includes volunteer, parent reps and family support workers.
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Hope for Paediatric Epilepsy
Location: Droylsden, Tameside
"Hope" offers support and friendship to parents/carers and siblings/children with epilepsy. The Group meets on the third Tuesday of every month at Slide and Seek and also on the last Wednesday of every month at Rowan House, Hyde when you can speak to Carolyn Taylor, Epilespy Specialist Nurse and other professionals.
Referral Method: Drop-in
Facilities: Accessible parking and disabled access
Age Range: 0-16 years and their parents
Cost: Slide and Seek £1.50 per child
If you would like further information about the Group then please do not hesitate to contact the number provided.
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- Jubilee Gardens, Gardenfold Way, Droylsden, M43 7XU
For more information:
- Contact: Kelly Wray/Joanne Smith
- Telephone: 08719 963 185/07999 360 278
Our Kids Eyes
Location: Droylsden
Our charity provides support, advice, information and lots of activities and events throughout the year for Tameside families who have children with special needs.
Our charity is run soley by Parent Volunteers and their aim is to make Tameside the best place to raise a child with Special Needs. As a parent run charity we know first hand the impact having a child with special needs has on the whole family, especially siblings.
OKE has over 500 families registerd with us and the children have a wide variety of special needs, such as ADHD, ASD, Downs Syndrome, visual and hearing impairements, learning disabilities and physical disabilities.
Parents can also receive confidential advice and support on a whole range of subjects.
If you would like more information then please do not hesitate to contact the service on the number provided.
Open: Monday to Friday 9.30am-2.30pm
Referral Details: Self Referral
Access and Facilities: Parking and disabled access, Baby facilities (open all year round)
Cost: Contact for details
- Address: Jubilee Gardens, Gardenfold Way, Droylsden, M43 7XU
For more information:
- Telephone: 0161 371 2084/371 2087/371 2066
- Fax: 0161 371 2088
- Visit: Our Kids Eyes
Home-Start Oldham, Stockport & Tameside
Location: Manchester
Homestart provides support and friendship to families in their own homes. It also offers breastfeeding peer support to new mothers across Tameside and Glossop. Families must have at least one child aged under 5. Volunteers, who are parents themselves, are recruited, trained and supported to visit families in their own homes on a weekly basis for as long as the family needs support. Volunteers offer emotional support and practical help to families who are experieincing difficulties, for whatever reason, with young families in order to help parents provide the best possible start in life for their children.
Open: According to the families needs
Referral Details: Self referral / Telephone/ Drop-in/ By appointment / Through other agencies
Access/Facilities: This service is offered to families in their own homes
Age Range: Available only to famlies who have a child under 5 in the household
Cost: Free
- Address: Ryecroft Hall, Audenshaw, Manchester, M34 5ZJ
For more information:
- Telephone: 0161 344 0669
- Fax: 0161 344 0669
Respect for All Counselling
At Respect for All we offer counselling for autistic people, for people with learning disabilities, and for their families, throughout the whole of Greater Manchester.
We serve the ten boroughs of Greater Manchester: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside (Ashton-under-Lyne, Audenshaw, Denton, Droylsden, Dukinfield, Hyde, Mossley and Stalybridge), Trafford, and Wigan. All our counsellors have either personal or professional experience of being with our client group. We offer counselling in English and British Sign Language. We also have specialist counsellors: for example, some have expertise in play therapy.
We believe that each person is unique and has potential. We show our respect through taking the time and effort to communicate with clients at a pace and in a way that is both helpful and empowering.
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Tameside Portage Service
Location: Mossley
Portage is a multi agency home visiting service for pre school children with additional needs, the families need to live in Tameside and be happy to participate and practice agreed activities between Portage visits. The child needs to be 0-3 years with additional needs or developmental delay and attend less than ten hours if in an early years setting. Families are visited for an hour or so on a regular basis. The Portage Workers are trained nursery nurses working in Education, Health and local Children's Centres and have a wide range of experiences working with children and families. They will bring along a selection of toys for a fun play session, during these sessions the parents are encouraged to join in and share their child's likes and dislikes and any concerns they have regarding their child's development. A variety of assessment tools may be used to help identify strengths and weaknesses, the emphasis is on the positive such as what the child can do. Each session is tailored to meet the family's individual needs. The child must not be attending any setting to receive support from the portage team.
At the end of each visit the portage worker and parent decide on an activity that can be practiced daily which is fun for the family to enjoy together.
Open: Monday to Friday 8.30am-4.45pm (Preferably telephone due to staff being in and out at various times of the day)
Referral Details: Self Referral or from professional with parents/carers permission
Access and Facilities: Disabled Access and Parking Available
Cost: None
Age range: 0-3 years
- Address: Tameside Portage Service
- Mossley Children's Centre
- The Rowans,
- Mossley, Ashton-under-Lyne, OL5 9DR
Team For Children With Hearing Impairment
Location: Audenshaw
The Hearing Impairment Service is a peripatetic team that supports children and young people (0-19) with varying degrees of hearing impairment.
Support is available through a matrix scoring system and is according to individual need. This may be by giving guidance and advice, but can include varying levels of in-class support and individual tuition.
Most of our children attend their local school, however some children need very high levels of support and attend either a specially resourced junior or secondary school.
Open: Monday to Friday, 8:30am-4:00pm
Referral Method: Open Referral from; schools, parents, ISCAN etc
Cost: Contact for Details
Age Range: 0 - 19 years
- Address: Ryecroft Hall, Manchester Road, Audenshaw, M34 5ZJ
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New Diagnosis
If you would like more information then please see the Early Support Website.
For more information visit Early Support website.
Barnardos
Barnados works with children on a number of issues that range of drug misuse to disability. It believes it can bring the best out in every child and runs almost 400 projects around the UK.
For more information:
- Telephone: 0151 488 1100
- Fax: 0151 488 1101
- Visit: Barnardos
Dial a Dream
Location: London
This charity works to help make a reality of the dreams of a child suffering from a diagnosed life limiting or life threatening illness.
- Address: 7 Addison Road, Wanstead, London, E11 2RG
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Direct Gov Website
This website has descriptions of the roles of the many professionals you may meet when Caring for a disabled child.
For more information visit Direct Gov website.
Down Syndrome Educational International
Location: Cumbria
Works to improve education for young people with Down syndrome. The website provides reliable information for young people and their families.
- Address: Down Syndrome Education International, 6 Underley Business Centre, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria, LA6 2DY
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Down's Syndrome Association
Location: Middlesex
Information and support for young people with Down's Syndrome, their families, carers and practitioners who are working with them. Please visit the website below for further information.
Open: The helpline is available from 10.00am-4.00pm (Monday to Friday)
- Address: Langdon Down Centre, 2a Langdon Park, Teddington, Middlesex, TW11 9PS
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IPSEA - Information and Advice
A registered charity offering free and independent advice to parents of children with Special Educational Needs in England and Wales.
For more information visit IPSEA website.
Kids
Kids works directly with those children and young people who have a disability, provides support to young people and their families and offers training for those practitioners working inclusively with them. For further information please visit the website.
For more information visit Kids website.
Scope
Scope is all about changing society for the better, so that disabled people and their families can have the same opportunities as everyone else.
They work with disabled people and their families at every stage of their lives. They offer practical support - from information services to education and everyday care. Scope challenges assumptions about disability and they influence decision makers and show what can be possible.
Open: 9am-5pm weekdays, closed weekends and Bank Holidays.
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See and Learn
See and Learn is a language and reading programme of activities designed to help children who have Down syndrome learn to talk and read.
For further information about this please visit the website provided.
For more information visit See and Learn website.
Sense Children's Specialist Services
Location: Wakefield
Sense is a national charity that supports and campaigns for children and adults who are deafblind. We provide tailored support, advice and information as well as specialist services to all deafblind people, their families, carers and professionals who work with them. In addition, we support people who have a single sensory impairment with additional needs.
In order to be clear and open about the support we can provide to families we have developed a core offer of support which is available to all children and young people:
- We will get in touch within two working days from when you first contact Sense
- You will meet a Sense specialist within eight weeks of first getting in touch with us
- You will have your own identified worker
- You will have the opportunity to attend at least one family event per year
- We will keep in touch through an annual contact
- You will have access to the information and advice service
- We will offer you the chance to join Sense through our membership programme
- An outcome of Sense supporting you may involve our working alongside your local authority to provide an individual service solution tailored to your needs.
This offer is provided through Sense's work as a charity.
Children's Specialist Service can also offer other support at times of particular need, including:
- Help when your child is first diagnosed - including giving you practical ideas about how to develop your child's skills, and advice on suitable play activities.
- Assessments that look at your child as a whole - which focus on what your child can do.
- Extra support at times of crisis - such as when a family is under considerable strain.
- Support with significant periods of change for your child (transitions) - such as starting school and moving into adulthood.
- Resource libraries which lend sensory toys and equipment (nearest resource based in Wakefield).
The support offered in this way will be time limited, depending on the level of family need.
Our aim is to always start with what a child is able to do and then look at how that can be built on. When we support a family we begin by finding out what their key issues are and work in partnership with the family (and other professionals) to help resolve these.
- Address: Pemberton House, 122 Westgate, Wakefield, WF1 1XP
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