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Local Organisations
Social Services: May be able to provide an assessment of your child needs. They can provide information on what's available in the borough and in some cases may offer respite and can provide information on Direct Payments.. You can contact them if you wish to register your child disabled; this enables the borough to plan for future services. For more information contact the following: Social Services - Children with Disabilities Team Local Education Authority ADDUP: Provide support and information for parents with children who have Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD ADDUP Parents of Autistic Children Together (PACT): Offers information to parents whose child has a diagnosis on the autistic spectrum. They provide newsletters, offer parent support groups, information days, and social and play activities for parents and their families. For more information please contact: PACT Independent Living Agency: Runs the Direct Payments Scheme on behalf of Barking and Dagenham Council. Under the Community Care (Direct Payments) Act 1996, local authorities can make payments directly to disable people, including children to enable them to employ personal assistants to meet their assistance needs. They can be contacted at: Independent Living Agency Barking & Dagenham Crossroads: Organises a Summer Activity
Scheme and Saturday club for children with disabilities. For more information
please contact: Crossroads Downs Syndrome Group (North East Thames Branch of the Downs Syndrome
Association): Offers information and support to parents, information
days, and a regular newsletter. For more information contact Teresa Bauman
on Barking & Dagenham Local Education Authority, have produced
some booklets for parents: The Portage Service: A home visiting teaching scheme for developmental
delayed pre-school children. The aim of the service is to work with parents
to help their child reach their full potential. For more information contact: Altogether Better Project - Barking and Dagenham Centre for Independent,
Inclusive, Integrated, Living Consortium This is a Disabled Children's Social Inclusion Project which supports young people with disabilities and Special Needs to access local clubs and social activities. SNAP (Special Needs and Parents): A support group for parents and carers of children with any special need or disability. SNAP's aims are to inform, encourage and support parents allowing them to grow in strength and knowledge so that they are better equipped to give the best possible help to their children. They can be contacted during term time at: SNAP EPCP Spurs - a football club for players with cerebral palsy. Open to ambulant CP players aged 7 to 16. Recruiting both girls and boys for the 2005/2006 season. For more information please contact: Ian Walter Emerson Park School & Sports College, Wych Elm Road Wingletye Lane Hornchurch Essex RM11 3AD Telephone: 01708475285 Fax: 01708620963 Email: info@epcpspurs.co.uk or visit their website at www.epcpspurs.co.uk
We have an extensive list of organisations that may be able to help. However, here are some addresses you may find useful. AFASIC British Dyslexia Association British Epilepsy Association Contact A Family Down's Syndrome Association Dyspraxia Association National Autistic Society Parents for Inclusion Other factsheets you may find useful include: Welfare Benefits, Life Story Book, Special Educational Needs, Young Carers. For more information please contact us on |
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