Understanding Your Child with Additional Needs

Overview

The important relationships in your child’s life can help shape their emotional wellbeing and enable them to thrive. Parenting a child with additional needs can bring unique rewards and unique pressures—we’re here to help you feel more confident and supported in your parenting.

This pathway is designed to offer you space for reflection with some expert insight from practitioners and other parents like you, shaped into practical ideas.

Bitesize stages for daily steps towards confident parenting and connected relationships.

Being a parent (Level 1)
Our feelings (Level 1)
Understanding how your child is feeling (Level 1)
Reading behaviours (Level 1)
The challenge of reading behaviours (Level 1)
Tuning into what your child needs (Level 1)
Processing feelings (Level 1)
Different styles of parenting (Level 1)
Having fun together (Level 1)
Rhythm of interaction (Level 2)
Why sleep is important (Level 2)
Self regulation and anger (Level 2)
Communication and tuning in (Level 2)
Looking back and looking forward (Level 2)

Duration

At your own pace; 14 stages, each taking around 20 minutes and broken up into manageable units

Delivery

Self-guided online learning; different languages available

Who Is It For?

This specialist course is for all parents, grandparents and carers of children who may be neurodivergent, have a physical or learning disability or may be autistic.