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Our dedicated sleep service is here to help.

Alongside our Sleep Tips booklet and relevant guides, we also offer one-to-one support. This involves completing an application form for your child and two weeks' worth of sleep diaries which we'll send out to you as long as you come under our criteria for support.

If you need one-to-one support and are a parent/carer or a professional referring a family with their consent to having sleep support, please click the button below to contact the sleep service.

If you have a question or query about our services please email us at [email protected].

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Sleep tips Our Sleep Tips booklet introduces and explains different techniques for you to try that may improve your child's sleep. It covers ten main topics including bedtime routines, daytime napping, comfort objects and moving bedtime backwards or forwards. It gives lots of illustrated hints and tips for putting the...

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Supporting people across all ages to improve sleep, and provides sleep training to professionals in the health, social and corporate sectors.

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Together Trust specialist sleep service webinar

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Together Trust specialist sleep service webinar

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Together Trust specialist sleep service webinar

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Top tips for sensory needs, activities and routines to help you sleep.Useful apps and products recommended by young people.

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Sleep, Screens and Stressed-Out Kids: Free webinar on Tues 30th Sep 8-9pm 

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Sleep, Screens and Stressed-Out Kids: Free webinar on Tues 30th Sep 8-9pm 

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Delivered by Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Dr Daniel Weisberg

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For Parents: The Manchester Sleep Offer Padlet

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For Parents: The Manchester Sleep Offer Padlet

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Looking for advice on how to sleep better? Tweak your routine and understand the science behind your sleep patterns.

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Sleep Support for Children and Young People with SEND

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Sleep Support for Children and Young People with SEND

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Good quality sleep allows our bodies and minds to regenerate. People who are sleep deprived are far more likely to suffer from physical and mental health issues. Without enough sleep, our brains cannot function properly. Seashell offers free sleep support for children and young people with SEND, from 2 to 25 years and their families. Our Sleep Practitioners are trained in the Sleep Charity's behavioural intervention and have years of experience working with children and young adults with autism, multi-sensory impairment, and learning disabilities.
What type of support do we offer?

The following are some of the courses and workshops designed to support you and your child.

Sleep Success

A half-day course designed to help families understand sleep and consider some helpful tricks and tips that might improve sleep for everyone.

Sleep Better

A 5-week course which offers the content of the Sleep Success course with the added benefit of peer-support and more guidance to introduce new strategies for sleep.

1:1 Clinics

Clinics are available once you have attended a Sleep Success or Sleep Better course. Clinics offer intensive support over 5 sessions to help you identify and make changes to behaviour that are impacting sleep.

Sleep Conference for Practitioners

An insightful conference for practitioners who wish to develop their knowledge in good sleep practice.

Who can access sleep support?

You can access sleep support if you or your child are between the ages of 2 and 25. We can work with parent/carers or the child/young person themselves as appropriate.

Find out more

To make a booking for any of our sleep events or if would like to arrange training or support, contact outreach@seashelltrust.org.uk

For details of all Seashell events, including training and development workshops for parents and professionals check out our Events page

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Sleep Support for Children and Young People with SEND

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Seashell offers free sleep support for children and young people with SEND and provides professional development for sleep practitioners

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Information on Sleep for Autistic Children

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Information on Sleep for Autistic Children

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Sleep is vitally important to maintain mental health and wellbeing. However, for many autistic people and their families getting enough sleep can be difficult. Problems with sleep are twice as common among autistic children as they are among non-autistic children or those with other developmental conditions.

Co-occurring conditions

Many autistic people also have other conditions such as ADHD, anxiety and physical health issues such as digestive issues. Each of these are known to disrupt sleep.

Sensory differences

Sensory differences, especially internal body awareness (also known as interoception), can contribute to difficulties in sleeping. Light, sound, temperature and touch can all disrupt sleep.

Anxiety

Autistic people often talk of increased anxiety at night time, because of a tendency to dwell or ruminate on the events of the day. They may be constantly replaying situations in their minds trying to make sense of social interactions, worrying about the next day or an event in the future. It's common to find switching off difficult.

Hormones

Research indicates that as a result of sensory differences, regulation of the sleep hormone melatonin may occur differently in autistic people. People with ADHD may have differences with regulation of the stress hormone cortisol which is why they too often have difficulties with sleep.

Tips for better sleep

Sadly, for most autistic people there is no magic remedy to improve sleep, but there are things you can do to help. These may include strategies such as introducing sleep routines, using sleep diaries or changes to medication and diet.

We have provided links to websites below, where you can find more tips and advice on sleep.

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Sleep is vitally important to maintain mental health and wellbeing. However, for many autistic people and their families getting enough sleep can be difficult. Read more about sleep and autism.

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An information guide for Parents/Carers around sleeping routines, common sleeping problems and useful resources for sleep.