Autism in Schools Team

A team who works with autistic children and young people (aged 4-16) who are on roll at schools in Cornwall. Their vision is to shape positive futures for these young people and to inspire, challenge and advise our partners to find shared solutions.

From the 10 September 2024 the Autism in Schools Team will be offering a weekly advice line service on Tuesday afternoons in school term time. This advice line is open to school staff, parents/carers, and other professionals and services supporting children and young people in Cornwall. Please note the team’s professional expertise is with school-age children.

You can find out more about the team and their service here.

Active Cornwall

Active Cornwall have created a page listing ideas, local free activity groups and support for families who want to move more together with their children ages 5 and under.  Please click here for more information.

They have also created a magazine, ‘Live Longer Better’. Their aim is to reduce disability, dementia and frailty by enabling increased activity – this includes physical but also cognitive and emotional activity too.  Please click here for their latest magazine.

DLD Together – A course for families of children who have Developmental Language Disorder

The communications support team at Cornwall Council are hosting a course for families who have children with Developmental Language Disorder. 

This will be delivered online through Teams and led by Speech and Language Therapists.  It will include 6 sessions with other families of children with DLD to find out about:

• What is Developmental Language Disorder (DLD)
• What your child’s language profile means
• How you can support your child at home
• How you can support your child’s learning

It will be run on Thursday evenings, 8pm until 9pm on the following dates:

November 7^th, 14^th, 21^st, 28^th and December 5^th and 12^th. 

For more information, the contact details are as follows, or you can download the flyer at the bottom of this post.
Email: cst@cornwall.gov.uk
Phone:
Mandy: 07881 897797
Nicky: 07742 766825

FACE Family Advice

Are you feeling that no-one is listening? Are you stuck on a waiting list needing some support? 

Raising children is probably the most challenging thing we will ever do. You are probably already doing lots of great parenting but sometimes we need extra ideas and techniques, especially as the children turn into teenagers.

The live, online talks offer up to date information, effective and easy to apply

interventions and the opportunity to ask questions and get practical advice.

Alternatively, you can request Individual Support from Jane Keyworth, FACE Lead Facilitator.

Please click here for the parent’s support page.

Early Help

The Early Help Hub have issued a new Newsletter, please see the link at the bottom of this post or click here. 

Parent Carers Cornwall

Parent Carers Cornwall is a parent carer led not for profit Community Interest Company providing advice and support to parent carers of children and young people with SEND. 

The offer support, advice and guidance in a range of SEND-related topics.  Please click here for more information about the support you can receive.

Please see their next available workshop below: