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Useful services and external resources, for your care and career.
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Communicating with people with a learning disability (Mencap)
This information is designed to provide a brief introduction to communication and the problems faced by someone with a learning disability. It also contains tips on how you can be a better communicator, and how you can help someone with a learning disability get their message across.
[UK CHARITY; INFORMATION APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]
Paediatrics and Occupational Therapy: What you need to know (Understood)
Understood is the leading nonprofit empowering the 70 million people with learning and thinking differences in the United States.
Occupational therapy, or OT, can help people of all ages do the activities of daily living (ADLs) they struggle to do. Occupational therapy for children can lead to big benefits, especially for kids with learning and attention issues. OT can help kids who struggle with everyday fine and gross motor tasks, like using a toothbrush, writing on a chalkboard and organising a backpack. It can also help kids who struggle with self-regulation and sensory processing issues.
[US WEBSITE; INFORMATION APPLICABLE WORLDWIDE]
Sensory Integration Education
As a not-for-profit organisation, we've pioneered world-class training in sensory integration for professionals for over 30 years. We deliver the world's only UK university-accredited MSc in Advancing Practice Sensory Integration - the pathway to practise sensory integration. And we host a curated programme of peer support, live online events and instant access courses for professionals.
Special Supplies
Special Supplies was founded with a goal to address the difficulty parents and educators encounter when attempting to find reliable, safe and effective tools for children with special needs. We discovered that, by doing our due diligence to ensure that our products were effective and safe, we were taking a load off the shoulders of those most invested in the well-being of these children.
All of our products are selected by a team of parents and experienced therapists, which helps us ensure we provide the very best in Oral Motor, Fine Motor, Gross Motor, Daily Living, School and Sensory products. Our team is dedicated to providing customers with the best selection of products for children and adults with special needs. Our passion is not only to raise awareness about the issues facing those with autistic and sensory integration needs, but to offer a therapeutic solution at an affordable price.
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