Support for SEND Parents and Carers

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Being a SEND parent can be really hard. We appreciate that and want to support you. Sometimes though, more support is needed than just in school and there are lots of opportunities for support available to parents of SEND children and young adults.

In Somerset, the main areas of support come from:

  • SENDIAS
  • Somerset Parent and Carer Forum
  • Wise Up Workshops

Wise Up Workshops

Being a parent carer of a child or young person with additional needs can bring extra situations which are challenging to know how to handle. To help support parent carers navigate these a range of workshops have been created by Somerset Parent Carer Forum based on the subjects you have told them would be helpful.

The idea behind the project is to empower parent carers through Workshops for Information, Support and Education.  All the workshops will be delivered or co-delivered by someone with lived experience of being a parent carer.

Key topics

Topics to be covered over the year include:

  • Movement difficulties including dyspraxia
  • Visual processing and visual stress
  • Auditory processing and noise sensitivity
  • Sensory processing
  • Social development and friendship skills
  • Understanding and supporting behaviour
  • Communication support
  • ADHD and executive functioning
  • Dyslexia
  • Anxiety
  • Autistic masking
  • Autism and eating difficulties
  • Autism and toileting
  • Demand avoidance
  • Siblings
  • Sleep
  • Growing up and transitions
  • Emotion-based school avoidance
  • LGBTQAI+ and neurodiversity
  • Attachment and neurodiversity
  • Talking to your child about neurodiversity
How to Book

Somerset Parent and Carer Forum

School Age Children Booklet
They Also Run a Range of Wise Up Workshops

Sendias

SENDIAS’ role is to provide information, advice and support about Special Educational Needs and Disability for parent carers, children and young people (up to the age of 25).

They aim to encourage children, young people and their parent carers to be part of decision making to improve education, health and care outcomes.

Their service is free, confidential and impartial.

Somerset SENDIAS