Patient resources
We publish a large number of patient information leaflets and resources across the whole range of our clinical expertise.
Popular resources
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Guide Yoga
For children with autism, research suggests that regular yoga practice can lead to improvement in communication and imitative behaviours.
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Triple P
Triple P –Positive Parenting Programme gives parents the skills they need to raise confident, healthy children and teenagers as well as building stronger family relationships.
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Sensory daily routine
Guide how a sensory routine can help children.
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Relaxation
Relaxation techniques offer benefits such as reducing stress and tension in muscles, lowering blood pressure and heart rate, and creating internal coping skills to handle anxiety.
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Reactive behaviour management
How we respond when challenging behaviour happens. These strategies are only used to keep everyone safe and to quickly manage the situation at that moment.
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Proprioception
Proprioception is one of our eight senses. It refers to our own perception of our body and we receive this information from sensors in our joints and muscles.
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Play
Play is known to support the social, emotional and functional development of children; anti-anxiety chemicals are released during play, and production of “feel good” hormones increase.
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Mindfulness and meditation
Mindfulness approaches can be easily embedded into daily life as a means to promote emotional regulation and to increase adaptive behaviours.
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Intensive interaction
Intensive Interaction is an approach for enhancing the communication abilities of children and adults who have severe sensory problems, severe learning difficulties or autism.
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Deep pressure activities
Deep pressure touch activities provide tactile input that is calming and regulating for most people.
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Fitness
It is important that children are active and moving so that they can develop their motor skills, and promote good physical health.
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Distraction
Use distraction and diversion techniques throughout the day, before difficult behaviour starts.
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Communication
During periods of heightened distress or dysregulation, it may be more difficult for your child to process and comprehend verbal communication and so it may be helpful to consider other strategies and methods of communication, to support them with understanding and retaining of information.
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Anxiety management
In times of uncertainty, anxious behaviours can increase, so children with additional needs require thoughtful support to manage their emotions and reduce unhelpful behaviours.
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