Resources while you wait
Events
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Resources
As well as our workshops, there are a number of helpful and reliable websites and community resources that you can access whilst you wait to be seen, or at any point during your child’s assessment journey.
Useful Links
Autism
- Hope for Autism (North Lanarkshire) – https://www.hopeforautism.org.uk/
- Autism Resource Coordination Hub (South Lanarkshire) – ttp://www.sailautism.org.uk/arch/
- Scottish Autism – Autism Awareness Charity & Services for Children & Adults in Scotland – https://www.scottishautism.org/
- National Autistic Society – https://www.autism.org.uk/
- PDA Society – http://www.pdasociety.org.uk
- SWAN Autism https://swanscotland.org/
- National Autism Implementation Team (NAIT) – ThirdSpace
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Intellectual Disability
- MENCAP – https://www.mencap.org.uk/
- MENCAP – Learning Disability – Down syndrome
- MENCAP – Learning Disability – Williams syndrome
- British Institute of Learning Disabilities – http://www.bild.org.uk/
- Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities –http://www.learningdisabilities.org.uk
- Challenging Behaviour Foundation – https://www.challengingbehaviour.org.uk/
- Promoting a More Inclusive Society (PAMIS) – https://pamis.org.uk
- Contact – For families with disabled children – https://contact.org.uk/
Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD)
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder in Scotland – https://www.alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/alcohol-information/fetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder-in-scotland/
- Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/foetal-alcohol-spectrum-disorder/
- FASD Network UK – Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder – http://www.fasdnetwork.org/
- Me & My FASD
Tourettes
Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD)
- Dyspraxia in Children – Dyspraxia Foundation – https://dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk/advice/dyspraxia-in-children/
Other
- NHS Lanarkshire Children and Young People Speech and Language Therapy Service – https://www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/services/children-and-young-people-speech-and-language-therapy-service/
- NHS Lanarkshire Occupational Therapy – Children & Young People Service – https://www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/services/occupational-therapy/children-and-young-people/
- NHS Lanarkshire CAMHS – Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services – https://www.nhslanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk/Services/CAMHS/
- NHS GG&C KIDS – https://www.nhsggc.org.uk/kids/
- Carers Together (North Lanarkshire) – http://www.carerstogether.org/
- Lanarkshire Carers – https://lanarkshirecarers.org.uk/
- Parenting Across Scotland – https://www.parentingacrossscotland.org/
- BDA Autism and Diet – https://www.bda.uk.com/resource/autism-diet.html
- Eating – a guide for all audiences – https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/topics/behaviour/eating/all-audiences#H3_10
- NHS Fussy eaters – https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/baby/weaning-and-feeding/fussy-eaters/
- Fussy eating: advice for parents and carers – https://www.aslt.scot.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/fussy-eating-toolkit.pdf
- Feeding advice for children with autism who have restricted eating
- Supporting autistic people with eating difficulties – https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/professional-practice/autism-eating
- Autism and eating: compassion and connection – https://www.autism.org.uk/advice-and-guidance/professional-practice/eating-compassion
- Picky Eaters: Practical strategies
- Sensory processing and eating behaviours in autism – https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/erv.2920
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