Local Charity Services:
Autism Berkshire are the leading autism charity in Berkshire delivering quality specialist services, training, and social and leisure activities throughout the county.
The Autism Group are a Maidenhead based charity committed to supporting and enhancing the lives of young people on the spectrum, their parents and carers.
Camp Mohawk is a multi-functional day centre for children with special needs and their families just outside Wargrave, Berkshire. They provide activities, groups and support for children with ASD in a secure and caring environment.
Parenting Special Children provide specialist support for Berkshire families who have children and young people with special needs.
National Charity Services:
National Autistic Society are here to transform lives and change attitudes to help create a society that works for autistic people.
ADHD Foundation are the UK’s leading neurodiversity charity, offering a strength-based, lifespan service for the 1 in 5 of us who live with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, dcd, dyscalculia, Ocd, Tourettes syndrome and more.
Pathological Demand Avoidance Society are the only specialist PDA charity in the UK. They are a small team all of whom have a personal connection with PDA.
ADHD Embrace are a charity supporting parents and professionals who live and work with kids and teenagers with ADHD. They work with children with ADHD so that they are understood, support and thrive as well as providing a support community for parents and professionals.
Autistic Girls Network are a small registered charity working to support, educate and bring about change. They are campaigning for better recognition and diagnosis of autistic girls and nonbinary young people and to support them in finding their identify and feeling understood.
Resources for Autism are a registered charity who provide practical services for children and adults with a diagnosis of autism and for those who love and care for them.
Recommended Local Services:
I.N. Therapy Berkshire is a private psychological therapy clinic, offering confidential, person centred therapy to individuals experiencing a range of psychological difficulties. They work in a nurturing and compassionate way and draw on years of training and experience to offer evidence based therapy.
FunctionAbility is a private Occupational Therapy Practice covering Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Surrey, Hampshire and parts of London. They are a holistic and client centred practice with experienced OT’s who can support with individuals from babies right through to older age adults. They are experienced with EHCP’s, Sensory Integration, adoption and trauma work as well as independent living, aids and adaptations and training within a variety of areas.
Talking with Vicky is a service that is here to help you assess your child’s speech and language levels and provide you with the advice you need to help your child develop their communication skills at an early age.
I specialise in assessing and providing therapy for a wide range of conditions including:
Receptive language difficulties (the understanding of words).
Expressive language difficulties (the naming of words and creating of sentences).
Speech sound delays and disorders (forming the sounds needed to make words).
Social Communication Difficulties.
Autism.
Stammering.
Videos explaining ASD and ADHD:
National Autistic Society - What Is Autism?
A film narrated by alan gardner – the autistic gardener.
National Autistic Society - Can you make it to the end?
A film that helps others to understand what the sensory world looks and feels like for an autistic person.
ADHD Voices - What's it like to have ADHD?
A film that explains to others what its like to have ADHD.
ADHD Foundation - Why is sitting still so hard?