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Alan Dark - Children's Entertainer

Marlborough House Therapy Centre

Mobile: (07850) 373537

Dave Martins School of Martial Arts and Fitness

Web: www.t-k-d.co.uk

The Parent Support Service

It is common for parents to go through times when they feel overwhelmed with difficulties they are experiencing with their child. The Parent Support Service aims to reduce family stress at such times, helping parents find practical solutions that fit their child's specific needs and their unique parenting style.

Whizz-Kidz

We also offer wheelchair skills training, advice and information and campaign to raise awareness of disabled young people's needs. Many of those we help become members of our Kidz Board, acting as our ambassadors and getting involved in projects and events.

Through this support Whizz-Kidz has given nearly 4,000 disabled children and young people the chance to enjoy an independent life at home, at school and at play.

Web: www.whizz-kidz.org.uk

SenseToys

The emphasis of our resources to promote the acquisition of language through play for both verbal and non-verbal children.

SenseToys was set up by parents of two children with special needs, one with a language delay and one with autism. The carefully selected range of resources aim at helping children acquire language through play by helping to make learning fun and rewarding. Even the most ordinary toys can help your child if you know how to use them effectively.

The range includes thick wooden jigsaws with simple non-stylised pieces, lovely fabric beanie bags to teach shapes and colours, threading activities with large holes and chunky pieces, cause and effect toys and a great selection of tactile and sensory balls for lots of squishy bouncy fun. We also now include basic games and actvities to help with alphabet, counting and language concepts such as prepositions, opposites, small medium and large and we have a new range of toys to facilitate construction play.

Tel: (0845) 257 0849 for a catalogue

©My Wee Friend™

©My Wee Friend™ appears as a plain black sticker in the bottom of the potty. When your child ‘wees’ into the potty a smiley face will appear, giving your child an instant reward and encouraging further use. ©My Wee Friend™ goes back to black and stays in the potty for up to 12 weeks. ©My Wee Friend™ is so simple it is a ‘must’ whilst potty training.

Please contact us for a stockist near you quoting All4kidsuk.

Email: Julie@myweefriend.com

Life's 4 Living

Our aim is to help families with disabled children by supporting them and offering them relaxation and alternative healing programs otherwise not found on the NHS. These programs help improve the child’s quality of life and give parents the tools to help facilitate this. They also help the child to become more peaceful, self-reliant, confident and emotionally stable. We have programs for families running in the UK, Croatia and China to ensure the children get the most qualified people in respective fields of healing.

For more information please go to our website.

We have offices in Birmingham and London:
London office: Contact Claire or Sonja on (020) 7767 3460

You can also email us on: contact@lifes4living.org

Grooms Holidays

Discover new places, new faces in beautiful Britain. With its golden beaches, rocky shores and lush, green countryside there’s sure to be somewhere just right for you. What takes your fancy? We offer a select choice of hotels and self-catering accommodation around the UK. There are a variety of attractive coastal and countryside holiday choices to suit different tastes. We have personally selected the accommodation for its suitability to provide the facilities needed and access for those with various degrees of disability.

Grooms Holidays is part of John Grooms charity, the UK’s largest provider of accessible holiday properties.

Email: holidays@johngrooms.org.uk

Web: www.groomsholidays.org.uk

Special Kids in the UK

What makes us unique is that we parents/carers of children with special needs ourselves. Understanding the difficulties and emotions involved with a child of any age with special needs is something we can all associate with. In addition friendship, support and practical hints and tips are a major feature of our organisation.

For more information visit our website:

Web: www.specialkidsintheuk.org
Email: information@specialkidsintheuk.org

Clare Allen Dip Hom PHSH RSHom

Homeopathy is a tried & trusted system of medicine - effective, non-toxic, with no side effects. Treatment is suitable during pregnancy and for the youngest of babies.

I have successfully dealt with a wide range of common childhood problems,.

For example:

• Sleep difficulties
• Gastric Reflux
• Colic
• Bed Wetting
• Behavioural Problems
• Morning Sickness
• Delayed Development
• Glue Ear
• Asthma
• Eczema
• Need for repeated antibiotics

Please call for free, no obligation information and advice.

(Prices for children - £35 first appt, £25 thereafter, cost of remedies is included)

Heathermount, The Learning Centre

Provision for students aged 3-19 years.

We offer a STAR service.

Support and Training for Parents. Training for Professionals Autism Specific training validated by Oxford Brooks University Resources for Practitioners

This is an effective school with excellent features. The pupils develop very good social and communication skills which allows them to make good progress in their learning.

Heathermount is a regional Training Centre for Sherborne Developmental Movement and Massage in Schools. Heathermount is part of The Disability Trust Organisation offering services for children and adults with Autism.

Address: Devenish Road, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 9PG
E-Mail: info@heathermount.co.uk

Lighthouse Toys

We believe that learning is best achieved when we are enjoying ourselves and so with this in mind we stock a fabulous range of fun toys from well-known brand names such as Bruder, Pintoy, Playmobil and John Crane.

Many of our staff are qualified in the childcare industry and the toy buyer is a qualified teacher who worked with children with severe learning difficulties as well as dyslexia, dyspraxia, and giftedness. We are always happy to offer advice in choosing the best toy for your child’s specific needs, please email us, contact us by telephone or visit our child-friendly shop where you will find good accessibility for wheelchairs and double buggies and a relaxed shopping atmosphere.

Address: 8-10 High Street, Histon, Cambridge CB24 9JD
Email: sales@lighthousetoys.co.uk

Julia Kudratt

I run workshops for both parents and carers teaching the wonderful art of massage in a beautiful environment in Muswell Hill, North London. Massaging your baby can promote a feeling of wellbeing therefore resulting in restful sleep... a happy baby and parent!

I arrange home visits to groups and couples and am based in North London. Call me on the above number or email for further information and next workshop dates.

Email: julemaret@hotmail.com

Tourism for All UK

Email: info@tourismforall.org.uk
Web: www.tourismforall.org.uk

Toybox Agency

Please call:
(01883) 722322 for Sussex, Surrey and London areas.
(020) 8686 1766 for South London area.

Escor Toys

Our wonderfully tactile and colourful wooden toys will promote role playing and stimulate your child’s imagination as well as encourage the development of counting, colour and dexterity skills.

Our range includes construction toys, abacuses, skittles, wooden bricks, pull-alongs and lots more. Please visit our website where you can buy securely online.

Ursual Matthews - Craniosacral Therapy

• Crying, Irritability
• Feeding Difficulties
• Sickness, Colic
• Sleep Disturbance
• Infections
• Ear Infections
• Asthma
• Sinus and Adenoidal Problems
• Behaviour Problems
• Hearing Difficulties
• Headaches and Pains
• And More.

Craniosacral Therapy helps the body's inherent healing ability to release stresses and strains, caused by enormous forces the baby is subjected to during the birth process. It will help the system to resolve the problem and work in a more balanced way.

For further information please call the number above.

Astric Medical

The Astric Dry Bed was invented 50 years ago and has been continually updated since then; it is the role model of all modern enuresis alarms.

The Astric Dry Bed is available from NHS clinics as well as direct from the manufacturers. It can be purchased outright for £99.00 or hired by the month for £33.00.

The Astric Dry Bed has been examined, tested and approved by the Medical Devices Agency as a Class 1 Medical Device complying with the very strict EEC and UK Safety Requirements.

Click on our website for full details or email: info@astric-medical.co.uk

SNAP! Childcare

We offer a nationwide service, providing experienced and qualified nannies, carers and enablers for children and young adults who may have a range of special needs from a mild learning disability to profound and multiple disabilities and their siblings!

Our carers have a wide range of experience, including Makaton & British Sign language, Conductive Education, speech, occupational and physio therapy. We deal with live-in, daily, permanent and temporary positions. All nannies and carers are carefully vetted and personally interviewed. At least two references are verbally verified and an Enhanced Police Check is required (SNAP Childcare is a Registered Body with the Criminal Records Bureau).

Please log onto our website for full details.

Web: www.snapchildcare.co.uk

Pure Living Collection

Children just love the feel of the soft light-weight, hypoallergenic Spundown Duvets. Mums love them too, for this is the award winning duvet that just loves to be washed, time and time again. For summer the 3.0 tog Pure Cotton Duvet is a popular choice of children’s duvet as it will help your child maintain a regular temperature on warm summer nights.

The polyester hollow-fibre filling of the Anti Allergy Duvets and Pillows contain material in which house dust mites cannot live, thus playing a major role in helping to relieve allergies caused by them. Alternatively, the Anti Allergy Duvet, Pillow and Mattress Protectors all provide an effective barrier between your child and the dust mites and their allergens.

Pure Living Collection also offers some pillows with slightly less filling and therefore perfect for smaller shoulders, whilst waterproof mattress protectors offer their mattresses protection against those all too common accidents and spills.

Peter Le Marchant Trust

From April to October inclusive, “Symphony” takes 26 people on day trips (including weekends), “Serenade” takes 10 people on 3/4 night holidays, and narrowboat “Melody” is available for weekly hire by a family or group with at least one disabled member. Charges are kept to a minimum so as not to exclude any groups. The remainder is raised in donations.

KidSense

KidSense is also the UK distributor of Baby Jogger, Dreamer Design and EasyLife products.

Our range includes a comprehensive choice of twin strollers as well as triple and special needs options from Baby Jogger and Dreamer Design.

For impartial and experienced advice, please call us on the number above.

Email: info@kidsense.co.uk

Web: www.babyjogger.co.uk
Web: www.dreamer-design.co.uk

Mr Pinschof

The Special Yoga Centre

There is also a great Pre and Post natal workshop package. The Centre is a charity and is the UK home of Yoga for the Special ChildLLB Programme offering yoga therapy and classes for infants and children with special needs. All classes and therapies are available at concession rates.

The Centre’s teacher training programmes consist of: Yoga for Children with Special Education Needs (Autism, ADD, ADHD, Global Development Delay), Teaching Yoga to Children, Yoga for Teenagers and Yoga for the Special Child™. The Centre also promotes yoga in schools and in children and community centres.

Information on classes and workshops is available by calling 0208 968 1900 or emailing info@specialyoga.org.uk.

British College of Naturopathy and Osteopathy

The college holds a free weekly clinic for children treating many conditions including: asthma, eczema, hyperactivity and weight problems.

BIBIC- British Institute for Brain Injured Children

Web: www.bibic.org.uk

Surrey County Arts

• Music Lessons on a wide range of instruments and voice
• Workshops and Residential courses
• Music Therapy and teaching support for Special Needs
• Classroom support related to national curriculum, GCSE and 'A' Level
• Surrey County Youth Theatre
• Dance and Drama opportunities.

And more …. Log onto the website for full details.

Web: www.surreycountyarts.org.uk

Pure Baby

Pure Baby began with a frustrated mother whose six month old son's cradle cap was so bad it was in his eyebrows, when nothing over the counter worked she researched the ingredients of many products, cooked them in her microwave, when it cooled she applied to her son's head, his cradle cap was gone in two days, applying the same technique to eczema, Pure Baby was born.

Pure Baby for all the family, all skin colours and all skin types from normal to dry, irritated skin, cradle cap and eczema. Pure Baby is America's first product line designed specifically for cradle cap and eczema.

Available Online or Tel: (0141) 639 4441

Thomas Wolsey School

Council for Disabled Children

Provides details of individual organisations concerned with children with all types of disabilities.

Aspire National Training Centre

KidsFun2U.com

Our fantastic range includes:

• PC Games - both Educational and pure fun
• Gaming Accessories for the PC and popular Gaming Consoles
• Children's Creative products including Arts and Crafts
• Baby Toys and Role Play items
• Activity and Outdoor Toys including Ride-Ons, Midi Dirt Bikes and paddling pools.
• "MUST HAVES" - Tamagotchi, Scoubies, Princess Max and more.

We are constantly updating our product range to include all the latest items so please visit our website regularly. If you can’t find what you are looking for email us and we will endeavour to help you. FREE delivery to most parts of the UK.

smilechildcare

Early Years Nursery (babies - 2½ years) Pre School Nursery (2½ - 5 years) 2 Out of School Centres Holiday Playscheme Breakfast Club

Company Events and Conferences Mobile Creche Services Wedding Childcare

Address: 17 Calder Grove, Edinburgh EH11 4LZ

Pekko’s Puppets

Pekko's Puppets perform in theatres, arts centres, schools, libraries, parks, festivals, halls and private houses. Stephen Novy is equally at home with an under-five's birthday party, a full school hall, or with a theatre audience of seven to eleven year olds and their parents.

Oxford Centre For Educational Testing

Child Educational Assessments - Comprehensive Written Reports - Dyslexia Diagnosis & Coaching - Private Tutorials for Maths, English, SATs and GCSE. Ages 4 - 16 year olds.

I Need A Holiday Too

Everyday Angels

We offer a very personal and professional service to both our clients and our candidates, listening to their specific needs and desires and going to great lengths to match those requirements closely.

We pride ourselves on the quality of our candidates and interview each of them personally and brief them thoroughly on the roles they undertake. All our candidates have relevant experience with special needs, a current Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau clearance and at least two contactable working references. We also check all our candidates' eligibility to work in the country.

Everyday Angels is a Team of people who care greatly about the work we do. Everyday Angels aims to provide our care workers with the support they need whilst working in this challenging field.

Tocki

Our range is suitable for both children and adults alike who have cerebral palsy, downes syndrome, autism or problem motor skills.

Tocki are proud and delighted to have received the Gold Award for Inclusive Play for Physiotherapy Range from the National Toy & Leisure Libraries.

Fun-2-Learn

Our products are selected for quality, durabiltity and versatility and include traditional dolls' houses, sturdy trikes, puppets, counting and reading games, role play items such as tea sets and wooden castles and arts & crafts to name but a few from brand names such as Aquaplay, Santoys, Voila, Weplay, Gowi, Winther, Puppet Co and Wedgits.

We are constantly updating our stock and adding new features to our website such as help pages. Visit our easy to use website to view our full range and buy securely online.

The David Mulhall Centre

• Dyslexia
• Dysphasia
• Dyspraxia
• Hyperactivity
• Panic Attacks

The David Mulhall Centre was opened in 1995 and has since successfully treated thousands of children and adults. Please phone, write or e-mail for an initial consultation.

E-Mail: info@davidmulhall.co.uk

Formative Fun

All our products are selected with great care and are appealing to all children and particularly useful for children with learning difficulties such as dyspraxia, dyslexia, autism, down's syndrome and visual and hearing impairment.

Our range encourages learning from bi