Helpful Resources
We’re building a growing resource library here, which we hope will help support you and your child. It’s small at the moment, but will grow to include articles, videos and information sheets. You can use the filters on the left to just show the items that you’re interested in.
And if you have an idea for a topic that we haven’t covered, but should be – let us know using this form. We’d love to hear from you.
Webinar Series: ‘My Understanding of Deafness’ for primary students
Unlike most of SENDsuccess’s material This 3 part course is designed for students themselves, rather than parents or teachers. This version is for primary students and aims to give them an understanding of deafness and what that may mean for a young person with a hearing loss.
Preparing to come out of lock-down: Social Narratives
These resources have been created by SENDsuccess to help children with autism, or other social communication differences/high anxiety, to prepare for the idea that lockdown will end, and things will begin to get back to normal, albeit a new and maybe different ‘normal’
Webinar Series: ‘My Understanding of Deafness’ for secondary students
Unlike most of SENDsuccess's material This 4 part course is designed for students themselves, rather than parents or teachers. It's for secondary students and aims to give them an understanding of deafness and what that may mean for a young person with a hearing loss. The four parts cover everything from types of hearing loss to how hearing can effect confidence, types of listening device and tips for looking after your mental health.
Understanding Communication: Intensive Interaction – Parent/Carer Guide
Tips for parent/carers on how to effectively use 'intensive interaction' at home.
Sighted Guide: Helping a vision impaired person navigate
A handy guide to help sighted people and vision imapaired people walk together comfortably and safely.
Advice and guidance on social distancing and the hearing impaired
This time of social distancing is difficult for everyone, but for people with a hearing impairment it brings many additional challenges. Here's what you can do to make things easier for your HI friends and colleagues.
Stuck at home: Helping your child understand
Many children with learning disabilities and autism find language difficult. It can be quite easy to spot that a child has difficulties expressing themselves - but they may be quite good at hiding the fact that they also have difficulties understanding others.
Webinar: Lego Therapy
Lego therapy, or Lego club, as many schools call it, can be helpful for children with ASC and social communication – its develops turn taking skills, collaborative skills, joint attention, negotiation and how to ask for and accept help and clarification.
Stuck at home: Reading at home with reluctant/dyslexic readers
Here are a range of activities and strategies that may help motivate reluctant readers and ensure that you both find the process of reading enjoyable.
Top Tips for working with children with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder)
Children and young people with ADHD need predictability, structure, short work periods, more individual instruction, positive reinforcement and an interesting curriculum. Building a positive relationship with the student will also ensure more successful outcomes. This article gives more detail on how to meet this need.