Health Education England Peer Education and Coaching for Families

Health Education England (HEE) wishes to commission the development and delivery of peer education and coaching for families, PAs and small/micro providers who support all ages of autistic people and people with learning disabilities, to be delivered nationally.

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Sleep Practitioner training for health and social professionals working with families of children with developmental disabilities – at your venue

The workshop will be an introduction to the principles of sleep assessment and behavioural management and will be especially useful to professionals new to this area of practice

Interconnections can provide a 2-day training programme for people who support children with developmental disabilities an

Introduction to a bowel & bladder assessment for children and teenagers with disabilities – Chelmsford UK, June 2018 – only £47.50

This low-cost seminar is for people who support children and teenagers with disabilities and want to help teach them to use the toilet.

The assessment is appropriate for children and young people with a learning disability, physical disability, autism and complex needs.

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An introduction to sleep assessment with disabled children and teenagers. An afternoon seminar with Julie Sutton. Shrewsbury, UK in October 2017

This specialist sleep seminar by Interconnections will introduce delegates to the principles of sleep assessment and supporting families of children and young people with disabilities.

As an introduction to sleep assessment, it will be re

Free online course about Integrated Healthcare for Children with Developmental Disabilities

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From the organisers:

We are pleased to announce an additional run of this free online course from the International Centre for Evidence in Disability at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. If you have a moment, we’d greatly appreciate if you were able to s

Seminar to enhance early child and family support can come to your team or group - UK and other countries

Facilitated by Peter Limbrick, focusing on babies and pre-school children who have multiple diagnoses of disabling conditions

Peter originated the Team Around the Child approach (TAC) at the beginning of this century following direct work with families whose new child had neurological impairment.

Two Interconnections seminars in Shrewsbury UK (2017) – 1: Re mental health of infants with disabilities (July). 2: Re sleep for disabled children & teens (October)

1. This seminar is part of an international initiative to consider the emotional health and psychological wellbeing of infants with disabilities and their families.

ECI without Tears: Seminar with Peter Limbrick about enhanced child develo

Training and consultancy for teams supporting children with disabilities and their families with sleep problems

Loss of sleep can be a very big challenge for children and teenagers with disabilities. The child loses sleep for various reasons and often so do parents and siblings.

The Interconnections sleep initiative offers –

- a 2-day training for