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A range of practical strategies can be used in an early years setting to identify and support children who may have a speech and language problem.

Some children find using visual clues and reminders very useful in helping them follow routine and learn new words and concepts. Use pictures or photos of the children themselves doing the activities, to represent different activities in the day as a visual timetable. Pictures can also be used to help children to choose activities.

If speaking is a problem, children could point to a picture of what they want to do. Make sure you demonstrate activities before you ask children to do them, so they have practical, visual information on the sequence of actions they need to do to get to the outcome you want.

You could also consider using Makaton or another sign language to help your child express themselves even if they are unable to form the words.

One of the hardest things to do when you are a fluent adult speaker is to be aware of your own language when talking to children, but this is also one of the most important areas where you can help children develop their language skills. Slow down the rate of your speech, simplify your language and repeat new words and ideas often.

Don't feel you have to fill in silence with lots of talking - some children need more time to think before they speak. Make sure you leave gaps for them to fill in. Try to reduce the number of questions you ask and emphasise the important words in the sentence, the ones that carry the information, e.g. "Look, here's the big teddy."

Try to cue children in to what you are doing - say their name, wait for them to look at you. You may need to model language for them by giving them a choice e.g. "Do you want juice or milk?" Or you can repeat what the child has said to confirm you have understood them and to let them hear how the words should sound.

Use simple repetitive language for familiar activities, comment on what children are doing in their free play sessions, and try to expand what they say by adding a few words. For example a child might shout: "Truck!" The adult should reply: "That's right, it's a big, blue truck."

Involve your child's teachers. It can be invaluable if you give them information which could help develop your child's communication skills - e.g. tell them if your child has special words or gestures for things. Finally, if you feel your child has significant speech and language needs, your child can be referred to your local Speech and Language Therapist for specialist assessment and advice.

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Please find below general information around different types of support a child or young person may have to do with their speech, language or communication.

For further information on what is available to support a child or young person, please visit The Balanced System® website. The Balanced System® framework is a way of making sure that in a setting, school or local area, the right provisions are available for parents, carers and professionals to help children and young people develop their speech, language and communication.

There is also a free national enquiry service run by the charity organisation Speech and Language UK, where you can book a confidential phone call with an experienced speech and language therapist. Click here for more information. They also provide a free child's progress checker, which should give you ann idea of how a baby or child is developing and whether you need some support or advice to help you. Click here to be taken to the progress checker.

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Schools play an important role in supporting the wellbeing of children and young people at a time when they are experiencing lots of physical, emotional and social changes.  The introduction of Mental Health Support Teams (MHST) working within schools is a new approach to provide an additional source of support to families and schools.

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We want to make sure that children and young people in Dorset always know where they can go to get support in a way that works for them. Download this shareable graphic and save it to your phone so you always know where to get support. Need to talk?

Sleep Strategies Worksheet: To accompany our Supporting Sleep webinar happening on the 10th March, this free sleep strategies worksheet is packed full of advice and guidance to help you with your child's sleep. Sleep strategies worksheet

Circles of Belonging Worksheet: Everyone belongs somewhere and this activity, created for Children's Mental Health Week, helps you explore all the places, people and groups that make you feel connected. Use the Circles of Belonging activity to think about where you feel safe, valued and yourself. Circles Of Belonging Worksheet CMHW 2026

Christmas Advent Self-Care Calendar: Check out our 2025 Advent Calendar for self-care ideas to try every day as we approach Christmas. Dorset MHST Advent Calendar 2025

This free downloadable guide from Dorset Mental Health Support Team (MHST) is designed to help parents and carers navigate the ups and downs of the summer holidays. Based on real feedback from families, it shares honest reflections, practical tips, wellbeing ideas, and signposts to national and local resources. Whether you're dealing with financial pressures, routine disruptions, or just need a moment of calm, this guide offers reassurance, support, and connection for a more manageable summer: Support over the summer a guide for parents and carers

This booklet aims to give practical advice to parents/carers to support their child with changing schools: Supporters Forum Transition Booklet

Different activities we do in our day to day lives can stimulate different hormones and chemicals in our brain to make us feel good. Get your daily dose of happy chemicals by trying some of our suggestions: Dorset MHST Get Your Daily DOSE Poster

Find out more about our Supporters Forum and upcoming events here: Supporters Forum

Sleep is a fundamental part of mental and physical wellbeing. Whether you're a parent supporting your child's sleep needs or a young person wanting to improve your own sleep habits, we're here to help you get the rest you deserve.
Sleep Matters: A Guide To Better Sleep
The Feelings Wheel is a powerful tool for understanding and expressing your emotions.
Feelings Wheel
Mental Health: Maintaining good mental health is as important as physical health. As a parent or carer, supporting the wellbeing of your child while also caring for yourself is vital.
Parent/Carer Guide To Mental Health
Christmas Advent Self-Care Calendar: Check out our 2024 Advent Calendar for self-care ideas to try every day as we approach Christmas. Advent Calendar 2024

Men's Mental Health Resource: We have created a free resource aimed at young men and teenage boys. This resource is full of information, advice, top tips and signposting to professional organisations that offer support that we hope will be helpful. Remember, men's mental health matters, let's get talking and supporting! Dorset MHST Men's Wellbeing Guide

Worry Monster: This is your friendly Worry Monster resource! The Worry Monster loves to help you feel better by "eating" your worries. It's here to help when you feel sad, scared, or confused. Worry Monster Resource

Moving up to secondary school checklist: As the move to secondary school gets closer, this ultimate checklist will help you prepare with ease and confidence! Tick off each item and get ready to rock your new academic journey. From visiting your school website to building new habits, we've got you covered! Moving Up Checklist
Moving up! Parent/Carer guide for a smooth transition to secondary school: Moving up! Parent/Carer Secondary School Leaflet Thoughts on Trial Dorset MHST
Thoughts on Trial: This thought-challenging activity is a popular one in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. It encourages you to think about your thoughts in new ways. Sometimes we can have thoughts that we really believe are true but when we think FOR/AGAINST the thought, our minds can change.
30 Ways To Stress Less
30 Ways To Stress Less: April is Stress Awareness Month and so we thought we would share with you 30 ways for you and your families to manage stress, stay connected and promote good physical and mental health. There is one idea for every day of the month so you can try different ideas out and see what works for you.
Stress Bucket Resource
Stress Bucket: The Stress Bucket is a useful tool to help explain how to manage stress. Above the bucket are clouds - the things that cause you stress. These rain into the bucket and gradually fill it up. You release the stress by doing things you enjoy or that help you to stress less.
Dorset MHST Ultimate Revision Guide
Ultimate Revision Guide: This guide is brimming with top-notch revision tips and techniques. In this guide we'll also help you take care of your mental health too and help ease feelings of exam stress and worry. You got this!
Helping Hands Classroom Activity
Helping hands activity: For Random Acts of Kindness Week. Write the ways to help others, and decorate the hand picture with markers or crayons. Then cut it out and display it on the wall.
Children's Worries and Anxieties: A Guide For Parents/Carers
Guide for parents/carers: Children's Worries and Anxieties: This booklet is packed full of resources and activities, including our top tips and advice, about how to look after children when they feel worried or anxious.
Christmas-Themed Mindfulness Doodling Activity
Christmas-Themed Mindfulness Doodling Activity: Christmas can be a fantastic but frantic time of year. The hustle and bustle of it all can get a tad overwhelming at times! Help yourself stay calm and collected with these Christmas doodles. An easy and reliable, festive-flavoured calming activity to give you a break.
Christmas Cards Mindfulness Colouring
Colour Your Own Christmas Cards: Crafting your own Christmas cards is not only a jolly good time, but it's also a great way to bond with others and boost your mental wellbeing. So, get cozy with some mindful crafting and jazz up our festive templates with your personal flair.
Advent Calendar 2023
Christmas Advent Self-Care Calendar: Check out our Advent Calendar for self-care ideas to try every day as we approach Christmas
Exploring Emotions Worksheet
Exploring Emotions Worksheet: This worksheet is aimed to help children understand the different emotions they may feel in various situations.
Stepladder Plan Positive affirmation cards: Positive Affirmation Cards Dorset MHST
Stepladder Plan: the stepladder approach is a step-by-step way of helping children and teenagers handle anxiety. The approach involves tackling little things before facing really scary things. The approach encourages children and teenagers to face their fears, rather than avoiding them. You can use the approach for different ages and anxieties.
Dorset MHST Wellbeing toolkit leaflet
Creating your wellbeing toolkit: It is really important to look after our mental health and wellbeing. We all experience different emotions and some can feel more difficult. It is normal for our mood to go up and down and we can learn tools to help ourselves in these times. A wellbeing toolkit can be used when we feel anxious, angry, low or overwhelmed. We have created a leaflet to help you make your own wellbeing toolkit.
How to Prepare for School Transition or Change
Transition to Secondary School: This resource is all about making a smooth transition from primary to secondary school. We know change can be nerve-wracking, unsettling, and anxiety provoking. It is okay to feel like this. Emotions are like a rollercoaster; they are never permanent and constantly changing. You may feel different emotions at the same time, for example, excited for a change but also nervous because it feels unknown. In this resource, we'll give you tips on how to handle this big shift and make it easier for you. You'll learn some awesome coping skills that'll help you when you need it. It's all about finding what works best for you, because we know everyone is unique!
Worries & Excitement
Worries & excitement: Moving to secondary school can bring with it lots of different emotions or feelings - like a rollercoaster of emotions. The worries and excitement activity gets you thinking about the things that you may be feeling worried about and the things you are also excited about. By completing this activity it helps you to be more aware of how you might be feeling about the move to your new school. Having this awareness can help us understand how to look after our wellbeing and mental health. By recognising the things we are worried about we can talk to someone we trust, maybe friends are experiencing similar worries or your parents/caregivers can ask teachers for help. By recognising the things we are also excited for helps us see that change can bring positive experiences as well.
My Support Network
Support network: One way of helping yourself prepare and deal with transitions is by identifying people in your support network who are there to help you. These people are the ones you can turn to and reach out to them when you need to. This worksheet is available for you to download for free so you can complete your own support network to remind yourself of all the people you can turn to if you need it.
Problem Solving
Problem solving: When you experience a practical worry (a worry we can do something about) it can be really helpful to problem solve and find a way to solve the difficulty to help you feel better. This free resource outlines how to problem solve practical worries step by step.
The Worry Tree - Summer 2023 The Worry Tree - Christmas edition
Worry tree: The worry tree is a really useful tool to help children and young people organise their worries into practical (worries we can do something about) and hypothetical worries (worries we cannot do anything about).
Coping Cards
Coping cards - A set of 16 cards you can cut out and use in work, school or at home. These are ideal for days where you might feel you need a little extra support or reminders of ways to manage on days that feel tougher:
Parenting a Teen
Parenting a Teen - in this guide we talk you through teenage brain development to understand why teenagers make decisions, need more sleep and may make riskier choices. We offer advice about how you can help your teenager while looking after yourself in the process.
Affirmations
Affirmations - Sometimes stating positive phrases to yourself can make you feel better. Have a go at saying these and see how they make you feel
(S)Elf-Care Advent Calendar
Our (S)Elf- Care Advent Calendar - Do you like what we did there? Check out our Advent Calendar for ideas to try as we approach Christmas
Best Things About ME
The MHST has created a worksheet to get you thinking about all the positive things about you! You are unique and brilliant, and sometimes it can be hard to think about all the good things about ourselves. Download and print this worksheet, and see you how you feel afterwards
Wellbeing toolkit for children and young people
We have created a wellbeing toolkit which you can complete in your own time to help you with staying well. Please click to download as a pdf
Summer Wellbeing Journal MHST 2022 Summer Wellbeing Journal MHST
With the Summer Holidays coming up, we have updated our Wellbeing Journal for 2o22 which you can use over the holidays. Hopefully it will give you some ideas about how to connect, get active, take notice, learn and give whilst you are off school as we know sometimes it can be difficult to think of ideas! Click on the links within the journal for more ideas and websites too.
Exam Stress Guide
We know that Exam Stress can be a worry for many young people. We have created a handy guide with some top tips to help you manage this:
Stress Awareness Month - April 2021 Stress Less Calendar MHST 2022
April is Stress Awareness Month. The MHST's have created a 30 day guide to ways to help reduce your stress levels, with one activity per day. We hope that you find this useful and that it gives you some new ideas or strategies to try out. We have a new guide for 2022!

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Information about how to access CAMHS support through our single point of access service the 'CAMHS Gateway'.

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This short video provides an opportunity to look at mental health through the eyes of a young person. It has been developed by young people about young people.
Co-produced by Dorset Mind, Dorset HealthCare, Healthwatch Dorset, Dorset Mental Health Forum and Bournemouth University.

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Welcome to CAMHS Dorset, we give Mental health and wellbeing advice and support for children, young people, families, carers and professionals working across Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset.

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The British Dyslexia Association (BDA) is the voice of dyslexic people. We aim to influence government and other institutions to promote a dyslexia friendly society that enables dyslexic people of all ages to reach their full potential.

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The British Dyslexia Association is the voice for the 10% of the population that are dyslexic

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The Dyslexia Association have been providing specialist assessments, screening, tuition and training for children and adults with dyslexia, and more recently we have been providing services and support for everyone who identifies as neurodivergent

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We provide support and services for dyslexic children and adults of all ages, their parents/families, educators, employers and the wider community. Our head office is in Nottingham and we provide services remotely across the United Kingdom and beyond.

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Living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be difficult, as the symptoms can make everyday activities more of a challenge.

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Ways to cope for parents of children with ADHD

Caring for a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can be challenging. The impulsive, fearless and chaotic behaviours typical of ADHD can make everyday activities exhausting and stressful.

Although it can be difficult at times, it's important to remember that a child with ADHD cannot help their behaviour. People with ADHD can find it difficult to suppress impulses, which means they may not stop to consider a situation, or the consequences, before they act.

If you're looking after a child with ADHD, you may find this advice helpful.

Plan the day

Plan the day so your child knows what to expect. Set routines can make a difference to how a child with ADHD copes with everyday life.

For example, if your child has to get ready for school, break it down into structured steps, so they know exactly what they need to do.

Set clear boundaries

Make sure everyone knows what behaviour is expected, and reinforce positive behaviour with immediate praise or rewards. Be clear, using enforceable consequences, such as taking away a privilege, if boundaries are overstepped and follow these through consistently.

Be positive

Give specific praise. Instead of saying a general: "Thanks for doing that," you could say: "You washed the dishes really well. Thank you."

This will make it clear to your child that you're pleased and why.

Giving instructions

If you're asking your child to do something, give brief instructions and be specific. Instead of asking: "Can you tidy your bedroom?" say: "Please put your toys into the box and put the books back onto the shelf."

This makes it clearer what your child needs to do and creates opportunities for praise when they get it right.

Incentive scheme

Set up your own incentive scheme using a points or star chart, so good behaviour can earn a privilege. For example, behaving well on a shopping trip will earn your child time on the computer or some sort of game.

Involve your child in it and allow them to help decide what the privileges will be.

These charts need regular changes or they become boring. Targets should be:

immediate - for example, daily

intermediate - for example, weekly

long-term - for example, 3-monthly

Try to focus on just 1 or 2 behaviours at a time.

Intervene early

Watch for warning signs. If your child looks like they're becoming frustrated, overstimulated and about to lose self-control, intervene.

Distract your child, if possible, by taking them away from the situation. This may calm them down.

Social situations

Keep social situations short and sweet. Invite friends to play, but keep playtimes short so your child does not lose self-control. Do not aim to do this when your child is feeling tired or hungry, such as after a day at school.

Exercise

Make sure your child gets lots of physical activity during the day. Walking, skipping and playing sport can help your child wear themselves out and improve their quality of sleep.

Make sure they're not doing anything too strenuous or exciting near to bedtime.

Read our physical activity guidelines for children and young people, which includes information on getting active, and how much activity you and your child should be doing.

Eating

Keep an eye on what your child eats. If your child is hyperactive after eating certain foods, which may contain additives or caffeine, keep a diary of these and discuss them with a GP.

Bedtime

Stick to a routine. Make sure your child goes to bed at the same time each night and gets up at the same time in the morning.

Avoid overstimulating activities in the hours before bedtime, such as computer games or watching TV.

Night time

Sleep problems and ADHD can be a vicious circle. ADHD can lead to sleep problems, which in turn can make symptoms worse.

Many children with ADHD will repeatedly get up after being put to bed and have interrupted sleep patterns. Trying a sleep-friendly routine can help your child and make bedtime less of a battleground.

Help at school

Children with ADHD often have problems with their behaviour at school, and the condition can negatively affect a child's academic progress.

Speak to your child's teachers or their school's special educational needs co-ordinator (SENCO) about any extra support your child may need.

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The right diagnosis, treatment and support can make a big difference to your child’s learning, life skills and relationships, as well as making family life easier.

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ADHD is not a mental illness or a learning disability, though children and young people with ADHD may also have other conditions or experience mental health problems.

Living with ADHD can be very challenging, for your child as well as for you being their parents and carers. The right diagnosis, treatment and support can make a big difference to your child's learning, life skills and relationships, as well as making family life easier. There is also lots you can do as a parent/carer to help your child manage the things they find difficult.

If your child has been diagnosed with ADHD, there are different ways in which you can help to support them such as:

Children with ADHD are diagnosed and treated by Bolton Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (CAMHS). NHS Bolton CCG, Bolton CAMHS and other partners such as Educational Psychology and Behaviour Support are currently reviewing the ADHD pathway. This page will contain the pathway and further information for parents and carers once agreed.

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We give expert support on childhood deafness, raise awareness and campaign for deaf children’s rights, so they have the same opportunities as everyone else

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Childhood deafness | National Deaf Children’s Society

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Take a look at our Living Well with Sight Loss Parent Pathway course

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Support Groups

National Support Groups

Living with ADHD

This website has been developed to support those who come into contact with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) - parents/carers and teachers - and also provides resources for children and teenagers themselves, to help them understand and manage the condition.
www.livingwithadhd.co.uk
addup was set up to bring families together, to guide parents in the right direction to find the practical help they need for their children and to promote both public and professional awareness of ADHD.
http://www.addup.co.uk
ADD / ADHD Online Information
www.adders.org
ADDISS, The National Attention Deficit Disorder Information and Support Service
www.addiss.co.uk
ADHD VOICES

ADHD Voices brings the perspectives and experiences of children into international debates around rising child psychiatric diagnoses and the increasing use of drugs in child psychiatry. These voices contribute to an empirical evidence base that helps to inform ethical debate, clinical judgment, and national policy. VOICES is a Wellcome Trust funded research project based at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
www.adhdvoices.com
ADHD Foundation
www.adhdfoundation.org.uk
ADDNI Children's Charity - Belfast
www.addni.net Mindroom is a special needs charity for children and adults affected by learning difficulties and learning disabilities www.mindroom.org
PATOSS - The professional association of teachers of students with specific learning difficulties
www.patoss-dyslexia.org The Royal College of Psychiatrists
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has a Policy Unit which deals with issues affecting National Mental Health policy and psychiatric practice. Details can be found on the website www.rcpsych.ac.uk/policy (under Policy and Parliamentary).

The Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition

The Children and Young People's Mental Health Coalition brings together leading charities to campaign jointly on the mental health and wellbeing of children and young people. http://www.cypmhc.org.uk/

Baldock / Hitchin / Letchworth / Royston / Stevenage

Angels Support Group - http://www.angelssupportgroup.org.uk/index.htm

Brighton

ADHD Brighton Support Group - http://adhdbrighton.org.uk/

Bristol

Adult ADHD Support Group - http://aadduk.org/help-support/support-groups/bristol-adult-adhd-support-group/

Cambridgeshire

C ambridgeshire Adult ADHD Support Group - http://addventure-within.co.uk/support/

Chichester

The Hyperactive Children's Support Group - http://www.hacsg.org.uk/page6.html

Coleraine

Phoenix ADHD Project - http://www.phoenixadhdproject.org/contact/

Essex

Chelmsford ADHD Support Group - http://www.adhd-support.org.uk/index.html

Gateshead

Gateshead ADHD Support - http://www.gatesheadadhdsupport.co.uk/whatis.html

Support group for parents of children with ADHD/ADD and Autism in Farnborough Hampshire. We run every month (1st Tuesday of every month) at the Ship Inn Pub in Farnborough. - Contact Nikki Roberts - adhdtimeout@outlook.com

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/groups/adhdandASDtmeout/
Harrow
Centre for ADHD and Autism Support Harrow - http://adhdandautism.org/

Contact : adhd@adhdandautism.org

Hastings

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Hertfordshire

Understanding ASD and ADHD in Hertfordshire - http://www.add-vance.org/

Lambeth ADHD Support Group: - http://turneyschool.co.uk/2018/10/14/lambeth-adhd-support-group-meetings/

Lancashire

ADHD Lancashire Support Group - http://www.adhdlancashire.co.uk/

Lincoln

Lincoln ADHD Support Group - http://lincolnadhd.org/

Liverpool

Liverpool Adult ADHD (Ladders of Life, LOL) - http://www.meetup.com/Liverpool-adult-adhd-ladders-of-life-meetup-com/

London

London adult ADHD support group - https://sites.google.com/site/joyfivolous/home

Manchester

Manchester Region Attention Deficit Disorder Group - http://www.maddchester.com/

Newcastle

KICK ADHD Support Group - http://www.netmums.com/newcastle/local/view/support-groups/special-needs-adhd/kick-adhd-support-group-keep-including-challenging-kids

Norfolk

Oxfordshire

ADHD Oxfordshire - http://www.adhdoxfordshire.co.uk/Support-Group.html

Richmond

Richmond ADHD Support Group - https://www.facebook.com/AdhdRichmond

Stockport

Stroud District Adults with ADHD - Support and Social Group (Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2123882871088294) or email stroudadhd@gmail.com for more information.

Central Scotland Adult ADHD Support - https://sites.google.com/site/scottishadhdadultsorg/Home

Dundee and Angus Support Group - www.adhddasupport.org

Glasgow Support Group - www.adhdglasgow.org

West Yorkshire

West Yorkshire ADHD Support Group - https://www.facebook.com/WestYorkshireAdhdSupportGroup

Life Coach Directory

Life Coach Directory was set up to increase the awareness of life coaching and enable visitors to find the most suitable coach. Coaching is the process of guiding a person from where they are, to where they want to be. To ensure a professional website is maintained, only life coaches who have shown proof of qualifications and insurance cover, or proof of membership with a professional body, are listed.

The directory has a page dedicated to ADHD - http://www.lifecoach-directory.org.uk/articles/adhd-coaching.html

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Support Groups | The UK ADHD Partnership

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The Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association was formed in 2004 and aims to offer a range of services to ensure that deaf, deafened and hard of hearing people in Dorset and Wiltshire enjoy equal access, opportunity and have the same independence as hearing people.

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BCP Council Family Information Directory and Local Offer

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Wiltshire and Dorset Deaf Association (WDDA)

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Deaf; Hearing; Loss; Hard of hearing; Hearing Aids; BSL; British Sign language; Signing; Training; Communication

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The Vision Support Service (VSS) work with children and young people, from birth to 25 years, with moderate to profound vision impairments.

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Vision Support Service (VSS) - Dorset Council