Back in Action
Tel: 020 7930 8308
www.backinaction.co.uk
(posture pack - writing slope and seat wedge)
BenefitsNow
www.benefitsnowshop.co.uk
An online shop selling the full range of daily living aids, active/passive exercise equipment and orthopaedic supports all designed to make your life easier.
Recommended items: Caring Cutlery (including Junior Caring Cutlery) & Therapeutic putty.
Canchild
www.canchild.ca
CanChild is a research and educational centre that provides evidence-based information to improve the lives of children and youth with disabilities and their families.
Do2Learn
www.do2learn.com
Do2Learn uses technology and the web to provide special learning resources for individuals with disabilities and the professionals and caregivers who serve them. Do2learn.com freely offers, for your personal use, thousands of pages of the best of the resources we have developed and tested.
Dyspraxia Association
www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk
The Dyspraxia Foundation is a country Wide charity, founded in 1987 as the Dyspraxia Trust by two mothers who met at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children. After being told that their children had Dyspraxia they were astonished and dismayed to discover that no facilities existed to help or inform parents and children with the condition. They decided to form their own group to help others to help themselves.
ERIC - Education and Resource for Improving Childhood continence
36 Old School House, Britannia Road Kingswood, Bristol BS15 8DB
Tel: 0845 3708008
www.eric.org.uk
Information on potty training, bedwetting, soiling, constipation and other topics
Downloadable leaflets references and advice.
Handwriting without tears
www.hwtears.com
An easy way to teach pre-printing, printing, and cursive handwriting for all children from reception through to year 5.
Hemi-Help
www.hemihelp.org.uk
HemiHelp is a UK based charity for people with hemiplegia and their families. The website has lots of useful information for people with this condition.
Hope Education
www.hope-education.co.uk
Hope supplies SEN resources, sensory equipment and special needs toys, and supports as part of Findel Educational a number of charities such as Dyslexia Action, The National Autistic Society and ADDISS.
Ian's Shoelace Site
www.fieggen.com
Learn traditional and adapted types of knots to tie your shoelaces in simple and basic steps, with lots of visual supports. Whether you're after shoelace tying speed, simplicity, security or style, here's 18 different shoelace knots to choose from, including several that Ian has created himself.
LDA – Primary and special needs
Abbeygate House, East Road, Cambridge CB1 1DB
Tel: 0845 120 4776
www.LDAlearning.com
Privacy boards, weighted lap pads / wraps, move’n sit cushions, fidgets, scissors including adapted grasps, writestart desktop – sloped board, Write from the Start fluency programme, pencil grasps, reading window, scissor skills.
National Autistic Association
www.autism.org.uk
A leading UK charity for people with autism (including Asperger syndrome) and their families. The website provides information, support and pioneering services, and campaign for a better world for people with autism.
Occupational Therapy Plan
www.otplan.com
An activity idea search engine for pediatric occupational therapy activities. Match skills you want to work on, with materials you have, to a detailed occupational therapy treatment activity.
One Place for Special Needs
One Place for Special Needs, Ltd. P.O. Box 9701, Naperville, IL 60567
Tel:
www.oneplaceforspecialneeds.com
A self-funded disability project, run by Dawn Villarreal in Illinois.
Pearson (previously Harcourt Assessment)
Pearson Assessment, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL
Tel:01865 888188
www.pearson-uk.com
PETA (UK) Ltd
Marks Hall, Margaret Roding, Dunmow CM6 1QT
Tel: 01245 231118
www.peta-uk.com
Adapted scissors.
Play and play things website
www.pmh.health.wa.gov.au
Ideas for your child with special needs and their siblings. Produced by the Play and Learning Programe at the State Child Development Centre in Western Australia.
Specialdirect – motor skills
Specialdirect Ltd, Park Lane Business Park, Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 9LE
Tel: 0800 318 686
www.specialdirect.com
Fidgets, pencil grasps, scissor skills, scissors, angled boards, games and activities.
Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation
5420 S. Quebec Street, Suite 135, Greenwood Village, CO 80111
Tel: (303) 794 1182
www.spdfoundation.net
Expanding knowledge, fostering awareness and promoting recognition of Sensory Processing Disorder
Taskmaster Ltd
Morris Road, Leicester LE2 6BR
Tel: 0116 270 4286
www.taskmasteronline.co.uk
Large variety of pencil grasps, ruler with a handle, sand timers, variety of scissors, included adapted grasps, wooden slope board, line tracker for reading, Write from the Start fluency programme, dycem mat.
Your Therapy Source
43 South Main Street, Schaghticoke NY 12154
Tel: 0518 3011749
www.yourtherapysource.com
Online resource for special education, paediatric occupational therapy and paediatric physical therapy.
Websites with free typing resources:
NB - The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is not responsible for the content of external websites. The above links should not be understood to be an endorsements for those websites, the site owners, or their products/services.