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On your Mind Signposts children and young people in Wiltshire to sources of support for good mental health and emotional wellbeing.

Moving on from CAMHS

Guidance for young people who are preparing to move on out of CAMHS to other support.

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We help children, young people and their families in Wiltshire who are experiencing more severe, complex and persistent mental health difficulties.

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NCMH (National Centre for Mental Health)

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Home Learning Newsletter April 2021 Spelling

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These occupational therapy free resources are pediatric occupational therapy activities to help therapists, parents, and teachers support child development. The OT Toolbox offers activities, resources, and tools for pediatric occupational therapy interventions, but also much more; Here, you will find precise therapy resources in the way of handouts, worksheets, and educational materials to support occupational therapy for children.

Pediatric therapy requires many various topics and tools. Here on The OT Toolbox, you will find materials to support OT for kids whether you are a therapist, a teacher, or a parent. Use these free resources for designing pediatric therapy services in school-based OT, outpatient pediatric therapy clinics, or in early intervention home therapy.

Pediatric Occupational Therapy

Pediatric occupational therapists will find the free OT resources helpful to supplement treatment activities when they are too busy to reinvent the OT wheel. These free worksheets, handouts, and educational materials support therapists for children including OT, PT, ST, and other professionals. Therapists can use these materials for face-to-face therapy services, in occupational therapy teletherapy services, and in occupational therapy at home programs. Free therapy resources include: free teletherapy slide decks, free screening tools, worksheets, handouts, educational materials, and more.

Free Teacher Resources

Teachers in special education or inclusive classrooms can understand what's really going on behind learning difficulties and behaviors. Teachers can use these free resources in the classroom to address overwhelming busy days and support diverse learners through differentiated teaching by offering students the supports they need for classroom success.

Free teacher resources include: classroom strategies, hands-on teaching plans, supplemental activities for creative lesson plans, differentiated teaching resources, and more.

Parent Resource Center

Parents of neurodiverse children, typically developing children, as well as special needs children will find these free resources as strategies to help their children become more independent so they can succeed in the home and at school. As an essential part of the child's team, parents can use these educational resources, hands-on activities, and worksheets to help children thrive.

Free parent resources include: developmental milestone charts, "red flag" screening tools, educational materials, occupational therapy at home activities and materials, and advocacy resources.

Browse these free resources for occupational therapy by category, topic, or specific need.

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Free Resources Archives - The OT Toolbox

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These occupational therapy free resources are pediatric occupational therapy activities to help therapists, parents, and teachers support child development. The OT Toolbox offers activities, resources, and tools for pediatric occupational therapy interventions, but also much more; Here, you will find precise therapy resources in the way of handouts, worksheets, and educational materials to support occupational therapy for children.

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Learn how to touch type with the BBC Dance Mat Typing game. It’s a fun introduction to touch typing game for kids and covers levels 1, 2, 3, 4.

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Times Tables Rock Stars – Times Tables Rock Stars

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Times Tables Games for 7 to 11 year olds

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Times tables games for Key Stage 2 children

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Spelling Shed is made by teachers, for teachers and was developed in the founder's classroom. We have built a suite of tools to enable teachers and schools to manage pupils' data, including reporting on assessments. Spelling Shed tracks student game plays along with their responses. Teachers can monitor weekly activity in order to advance or remediate as needed.

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Proudly powered by EdShed, Spelling Shed includes a whole-school spelling scheme, web & mobile games and a teacher hub with homework and data.

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Teach Your Monster: Free Phonics, Reading and Mathematics Games

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Help children learn with our free, award-winning reading, mathematics and phonics games.

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Nessy apps have no advertisements or in-app purchasing. Have fun learning the alphabet, phonics, sight words, syllable division and more with Nessy!

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Climb the mountain and play the yeti games. Each game will test memory and learning skills. The Yeti Master will explain signs of dyslexia.

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Some children with dyslexic difficulties or visual difficulties may find the glare of a screen too bright, or may find text easier to read with a coloured tint. ColorVeil adds a customizable colour filter over your desktop, Internet browser etc - it changes the colour of the whole screen

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ColorVeil: Reduce eye strain, help with Dyslexia and Visual Stress

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Dim screen brightness, reduce eye strain, and save energy. It helps with eye strain, Dyslexia, Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome, or Visual Stress.

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Life can be tough for children with modern day pressures. It can result in anger, worry, anxiety and emotional overwhelm. If your child is experiencing stress at school or home, such as friendship issues, exams or sibling rivalry Chatterminds can help.

Chatterminds helps to...

Equip children and adults with the skills and benefits of mindfulness

Enable young people to name and recognise different emotions and how they feel in the body

Empower young people to regulate their emotions and foster an ethos of kindness and gratitude

Support young people with their friendships, giving them the confidence to stand up for themselves whilst still being kind

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Equip young people with skills to nurture their mental health, with an emphasis on positive self-care

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Life can be tough for children with modern day pressures. It can result in anger, worry, anxiety and emotional overwhelm. If your child is experiencing stress at school or home, such as friendship issues, exams or sibling rivalry Chatterminds can help.

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Amazing Things Happen - by Alexander Amelines

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Marcus has autism and ADHD. Symptoms of ADHD include inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness.

He says some of the things people get wrong about ADHD are "we're just naughty, and obnoxious and don't listen at all".

He says these views can be quite "upsetting", but he sees ADHD as his super power.

Watch Marcus, who is an ADHD Foundation Young Ambassador, tell Newsround about how ADHD affects him and how his service dog Cocoa helps him

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Marcus: How ADHD affects me and why being different is good - CBBC Newsround

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Marcus has autism and ADHD. Symptoms of ADHD include inattentiveness, hyperactivity and impulsiveness. He says some of the things people get wrong about ADHD are "we're just naughty, and obnoxious and don't listen at all". He says these views can be quite "upsetting", but he sees ADHD as his super power.

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We are the UKs leading charity for autistic people and their families. Since 1962, we have been providing support, guidance and advice, as well as campaigning for improved rights, services and opportunities to help create a society that works for autistic people.

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The ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity - an integrated health and education service.

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

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Supporting individuals and families affected by dyspraxia/DCD

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Professionals

The WPCC can help you gain access to parents and carers for purposes of consultative review of your services. In line with Wiltshire's Participation Strategy, we work with commissioners and strategic leads in developing services across social care, health and education.

We also have a seat on several boards, including the Children & Young People's Trust Stakeholder Partnership Board, Trust Disability SEN Group and the Learning Disability Partnership Board. Find out who we work with and contact us today to discover how we can work together to improve services for our mutual client group.

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The WPCC can help you gain access to parents and carers for purposes of consultative review of your services. In line with Wiltshire's Participation Strategy, we work with commissioners and strategic leads in developing services across social care, health and education.

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YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People

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YoungMinds are a mental health charity for children, young people and their parents, making sure all young people can get the mental health support they need.

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Ways to support children's mental health

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Ways to support children's mental health

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An easy way to understand wellbeing is to say it's 'feeling good and doing good'.

Here are five ways you can help children keep their wellbeing topped up - and your own, too.

For many, it's going to be harder to get outside and move around, but we still need to keep active. When we move our bodies, it has a positive effect on how our brain works, as the brain starts releasing chemicals that make us feel good.

* Host a home disco. Play the family's favourite dance songs and have a boogie for ten minutes.

* Watch BBC Super Movers videos. These short films can get the whole family moving (and learning). Learning routines (or just attempting them) means your child's brain and body (and yours!) are keeping active and engaged.

* Blow up a balloon. Once you've tied it, see how long you can keep it up in the air while passing it between you.

Having more time at home together may also put additional stress on family relationships so give everyone in the family a chance to refuel. It can be as simple as curling up on the sofa together and watching a film or some cartoons - and then chatting about your favourite bits.

Having these sorts of conversations can help to make the positive buzz of watching (and laughing) together last for longer. It'll also improve your child's ability to reflect on their experiences and talk about their preferences.

Stories are another great way to help children recharge as they lose themselves in wonderful fictional worlds. There are likely to be some old favourites they want you to read again, as they'll take comfort from hearing a familiar tale (for children, knowing how it ends is a good thing, not a spoiler alert!).

It's helpful for children (and adults) to have a healthy balance of emotions in a day. Fears and anxieties about the current situation may, at times, overpower our positive emotions unless we make a conscious effort to re-address this balance.

Here are a couple of ways you can help your child to achieve this balance:

* Make a 'Top Times' scrapbook. Help your child to create a scrapbook of memories, with printed out photos, drawn pictures, saved tickets and other bits and pieces stuck in to help them remember. These don't have to mark occasions; they can capture smaller moments of joy, like throwing a ball for a dog or seeing a rainbow.

Once you've built a collection of pages (and maybe several scrapbooks), you can enjoy looking through them together.

* Create a gratitude jar. Another way to take in the good stuff is to write down a little note when something's gone well and keep it in a jar or box. Younger children may prefer telling you what to write so you can record the experiences for them. As they get older, they may want to write their own notes.

You can encourage them by doing this alongside them. The great thing about a gratitude jar is you can revisit it on days when you need a little boost to remind everyone of the things you've been grateful for.

Building gratitude habits doesn't mean we diminish the struggles that children (and we) experience. It's really important to talk about these difficult moments too. But, having a time in the day when you focus on the positive can be useful in helping children to keep their thoughts balanced.

Having more time at home offers an opportunity to set some goals about new things you and your child want to learn. It could be something that helps encourage their independence when they return to school, like tying their own shoelaces or buttoning up their coat. Or it could be something that helps at home, such as how to put their clothes away or helping out with washing up. When children feel they're contributing to family 'work', it can enhance their sense of belonging. If your child is capable of doing things for themselves, give them as many opportunities as you can to practise these skills.

Whatever the learning goals, it can be helpful if children understand they can improve their skills and abilities. This is often referred to as a 'growth mindset' since it's about realising we all have the ability to change the way we think and do things. So, whether it's tying shoelaces, learning to spell, or even how to hop on one leg, the way adults talk to children about the learning will influence those children's beliefs.

Here are two ways to encourage your child to adopt a growth mindset:

* Add the word 'yet'. Changing the way you talk about intelligence and ability can help your child understand that learning is a process - our skills and traits aren't fixed from birth. When your child claims "I can't do this" (whether they're talking about a new hobby, homework, or anything else), say: "You can't do it yet".

Adding and emphasising this tiny word subtly reinforces the learning process and may help them to try again.

* Practise (and fail) with your child. Trying new things can be scary, but it's often less daunting when you do it with others. As a family, you might decide to try something new and celebrate your learning and your failures when it doesn't work (the first, second, or even the ninety-ninth time!).

Being able to support your child's wellbeing also involves taking care of yourself. As a starting point, try and eat nutritious healthy food; it's a great idea to turn cooking into an activity the whole family takes part in. Life can often feel very busy and parents give themselves a hard time about being unable to do everything perfectly. Remember, though, there are no 'perfect parents'.

We all get things wrong, we all have days when we struggle. And while it may be true that you might not have done everything 'perfectly', you've probably done more things to support your child's wellbeing than you realise. So, try and focus on what you're doing well - it's not you being boastful, it's actually really helpful for your child to do this. Children can learn a lot from hearing adults respond kindly to themselves when things don't work out - and then from seeing the grown-ups try again. Notice how you speak to yourself about your mistakes. If you can cultivate kindness towards yourself, your child is more likely to practise this when they get things wrong too.

It might also be useful to take a moment and think about the activities, people and places that help you to feel brighter and refuelled. Even if you can't do these things at the moment, perhaps there are new ways that you can connect with the things that matter to you, like chatting with friends on the phone instead of meeting up. No matter how busy you are, try and squeeze in a little time for yourself. It's likely to help you with the many joys and challenges that parenting can bring.

Dr Hazel Harrison is a Clinical Psychologist with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing.

For further information check out the rest of Starting Primary School which has lots of ways to help prepare children for different aspects of school life - both practically and emotionally.

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Five ways to support children's mental health

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Clinical psychologist, Hazel Harrison, suggests five ways you can support your child's mental health.