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Top tips for supporting children with ADHD
Stay calm, give simple instructions, and use routines, praise, and organisation aids to support a child with ADHD.
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Top Tips For social skills development
Help your child practise positive social skills through role-play, guided play-dates, and modeling good communication.
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Top tips for sleep hygiene
Help to create a calm, consistent bedtime routine with relaxing activities, comfort items, and minimal distractions to help your child sleep.
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Tics And Tourette’s
Repeated movements or sounds a child can’t control. Tourette’s involves both motor and vocal tics lasting over a year, and treatment is only needed if tics are severe.
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Sensory Processing Disorder
Condition where a child’s brain processes sensory information differently, making them overly sensitive or under-responsive to things.
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QB testing
A screening tool that helps assess Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) and ADHD by measuring a child’s concentration, movement, and impulsivity compared to others of the same age and gender.
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ODD
Condition often seen in children and young people, especially those with ADHD, causing frequent defiant or challenging behaviour.
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OCD information leaflet
Unwanted thoughts or fears make someone feel they must repeat certain actions, like washing hands or checking things.
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Gradual retreat method
The gradual retreat method helps children learn to fall asleep on their own by parents slowly moving further away each night until the child can sleep without them. It can be used for children of any age.
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Sleep hygiene
Sleep problems are common, especially when children feel worried or stressed. Poor sleep can make it harder for them to manage their emotions and behaviour, so having a regular bedtime routine is important for their health and wellbeing.
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Developmental coordination disorder
Affects children who have trouble with everyday movements like climbing, catching, writing, or dressing. These difficulties can make daily tasks and schoolwork harder, and aren’t caused by another medical condition.
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Depression
Depression in children is more than feeling sad—it’s a persistent low mood that lasts weeks or months, affecting daily life, sleep, energy, and interest in activities. It’s important to seek help if a child shows these signs.
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Autistic Spectrum Disorder or Autism Spectrum Condition
A developmental condition that affects how a child understands the world and interacts with others, causing challenges with social skills, communication, and imagination.
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Attention Deficit Disorder information leaflet
A condition where children struggle with attention, hyperactivity, or impulsiveness, affecting school and home life. Diagnosis usually happens after age six.
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What Anxiety?
When worries, fears, or panic affect daily life, sometimes causing physical symptoms like a fast heartbeat, sweating, or dizziness. Support can include reassurance or therapy such as CBT if needed.
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What is ADHD information leaflet
Information for parents to help them understand their child's ADHD diagnosis.
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