Advice, support and help for children and young people with Neurodiversity needs or traits

This page provides information on support and resources available for children experiencing needs or traits which could be associated with neurodiversity, such as social communication differences, attention, activity, and other behaviours. These resources can be used by professionals and/or families and carers to help support a child or young person. All children and young people should be supported to engage with strategies at home and in school, or in the environments that are important to them.

Resource packs

There are several characteristics that can look like neurodivergent needs. Whether they are or not, we have created some resource packs to help with these needs. 

  • ND Spoke strategy sheet- To be used by parent/carer and professionals to support a young person in choosing 3-5 strategies for use at home and school, these should then be embedded for at least 10 weeks and reviewed as appropriate.
  • Support strategies for attention, activity, and behaviour (parents/carers) 
  • ND flashcards -​​​​​​ Created by our School-Based-Needs team to assist with voicing how the child or young person is feeling or what could help in that moment to reduce them feeling overwhelmed.  
  • ADHD and ASD resource packs - There are a range of packs available for parents/carers and young people, exploring different topics and strategies. Links to these can be found under the four boxes below.

ADHD and ASD resource packs for parents/carers

ADHD and ASD resource packs for children/young people

Helplines

Mindworks out-of-hours phone line provides advice to parents and carers who are struggling with behaviours, challenges, or difficulties which could be related to neurodevelopmental needs, such as ADHD or Autism. 

The  Learners' Single Point of Access  is available for parents or carers with concerns about additional educational needs of a child living in surrey.  The service is open from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, all year round (except bank holidays).  

Mindworks out-of-hours phone line for parents and carers

Learners' Single Point of Access (LSPA) helpline

Webinars

Navigating the Maze is a workshop for parents of children who have needs that may be associated with ASD and/or ADHD.

Learning Space, one of our alliance partners, offer a webinar that runs twice a month that is for parents/carers of children and young people who are diagnosed as autistic or are wondering about Neurodiversity.

Navigating the Maze – a toolkit of strategies for parents of neurodivergent children

Learning Space webinar

In this online webinar, you will be able to explore autism, autistic characteristics, what support is available, and strategies that can be used to support you and your child/young person.

To book yourself onto this webinar, email emma@learningspace.org.uk.

Advice

The National Autistic Society offers parent drop-in sessions that can provide on-the-spot specialist autism advice, support, and signposting. These are run in schools and family centres. To find out more, please talk to your child's/ young person's school.

SEND Advice Surrey - is Surrey's statutory Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities Information, Advice and Support (SENDIAS) service for children and young people aged 0 to 25 years with additional needs, their parents/carers and professionals.

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