LINKS


This page has a collection of the links that I have found to be the most useful - I hope you will find them helpful too!

APD AND TESTING

Great Ormond Street APD Information

Auditory Processing Disorder in the UK/APDUK

Medical Research Council APD Publications

Making Sense of the UK APD Test Battery Video

NHS Choices APD Information

Choosing a Hospital - Patient Choice

Is It Legal? - A Parent's Guide to the Law

DISABILITY SUPPORT

Contact a family - support for families with children with all kinds of disabilities

ADVOCACY and FREE LEGAL ADVICE ON EDUCATION

IPSEA  - Independent Parental Special Needs Advice
 
CORAM - Children's Legal Centre

ICO - Information Commnissioner's Office- accessing your child's school records

DISABILITY BENEFITS

DWP - Disability benefits for you and your child - which you are entitled to, depending on the severity in your case/your child's,  as APD is recognised in the UK as a disability

CAB - Challenging a benefit decision

OTHER INVISIBLE DISABILITIES     (Which might co-exist with APD)

The National Autistic Society

ADD Resources

ADDitude

SOME UNRELATED CONDITIONS  (Which might co-exist with APD)

Visual and Auditory Processing Disorder

Vision and Reading

Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome

Sensory Processing Disorder Symptoms

Sensory Integration Network UK and Ireland

Hyperacusis

Vestibular Hyperacusis

Vestibular Hyperacusis

Collected links about APD and Visual Processing deficits as a cause of Dyslexia

Exam Acess Arrangements for Childten with Dyslexia

Dyspraxia Foundation

Developmental Co-ordination Disorder/DCD (formerly dyspraxia)

Executive Function Problems - how to help

(Examples of how executive functioning problems can affect daily life can be seen in the image below)

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EDUCATION

Education Act 1996

Special Educational Needs and Disabilities/SEND - advice for parents and carers

Asking for a Statutory Assessment - a practical guide to parents' legal rights

Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice 2014

Citizens Advice Bureau/ CAB - problems at school

Education Health and Care (EHC) Plan- CAB advice

EHC Plan - DWP advice

IEP links and other information  - UK-wide (not just aplicable to autism)

HOME EDUCATION

Home Education UK

Home Education - Netmums 

Home Education in the UK

Unschooling 

National Curriculum

Tes - free teaching resources

BBC Learning- free resources

Sense-Lang -  free online  touch-typing program, suitable for children

DUAL EXCEPTIONALITIES              (Gifted with Learning Difficulties )

Article - 'I Think in Pictures, You teach in words - The Gifted Visual Spatial Learner' by Lesley Sword

Visual Spatial Resource 

'Dual/2e' - definition and additional links

LINKS SPECIFIC TO WALES  - CYSYLLTIADAU BENODOL I GYMRU

Special Educational Needs Tribunal for Wales

Learning Wales/Dysgu Cymru

SNAP Cymru 

Disability Advice Project

advicenow - Finding an SEN-friendly school

IEPs in Wales - (not just applicable to autism)

VARIOUS ARTICLES

'How children learn to read'

'Atypical sense of self in Autism Spectrum Disorders'

CONTACT ME

More links will be added as I come across them- please visit again.  I would also be happy to receive any related links that you have found useful and I will add them too!

Alyson Mountjoy   APD.Support.UK@aol.co.uk