Resources
Practical guides for parents of neurodivergent children, understanding behaviour, getting support, and what to do while you wait. Reviewed by clinicians as they're published.
2025 in review: what has changed for children's mental health and SEND?
The national mental health and SEND review, record EHCP numbers, delayed reforms, new RSHE guidance and more school mental health teams, what 2025's changes mean for your family.
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Supporting your child's wellbeing over the winter holidays
How to help your child through the winter break, managing festive overwhelm, keeping structure through darker days, and easing the daily transitions that get harder in December.
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Understanding impulse control
Why impulsive moments are a brain-based stress response rather than naughtiness, and the practical strategies, including the 4 Ps, that help children pause before they act.
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Understanding emotional regulation
What emotional regulation is, why dysregulation is a nervous system in distress rather than bad behaviour, and how co-regulation helps the whole family manage big feelings.
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Attention, concentration and organisation: supporting your child's executive function skills at school
What executive function really is, why 'try harder' doesn't work, and the small everyday shifts that help children build planning, focus and organisation skills.
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"My child can't sleep, what can I do?"
A parent's guide to children's sleep problems, bedtime resistance, early waking, circadian rhythm shifts, night terrors and sleep apnoea, and the evidence-based habits that help.
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Smooth transitions: guiding your child through life's changes
How to support your child through moving home, welcoming a new sibling, starting a new school and the many small transitions in between, with practical tips for each.
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Long days, big feelings: supporting your child through the summer holidays
Practical ways to help your child cope with the loss of school routine over the summer, visual calendars, gradual introductions to new environments, and easier daily transitions.
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Supporting your neurodivergent child at school
Why diagnostic labels alone aren't enough, how to spot the subtle signs of unmet needs, and how understanding your child's unique profile helps you work with their school.
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Understanding therapy options for neurodivergent children: a guide for parents
A parent's guide to counselling, CBT, play therapy, coaching, neurofeedback, sensory integration, speech and language therapy and family therapy, and how to choose between them.
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Self-esteem and mental health in children
How low self-esteem develops, why neurodivergent children are more at risk, and what the research says actually helps children rebuild confidence, including the praise that works.
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Parenting the spectrum: holistic approaches to supporting your autistic child
What autism is (and isn't), why the spectrum is better understood as a wheel than a line, and answers to the questions parents of autistic children ask most.
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Parents as the main agents of change: empowering families for child development
Why parents are the most powerful influence on a child's development, the evidence behind parental involvement, and how home becomes the place where new skills stick.
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Understanding neuroplasticity and child development
How the brain's ability to rewire itself shapes children's learning, emotional regulation and behaviour, and why early, well-targeted support makes such a difference.
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The science of Assembly: needs, not labels
Why Assembly focuses on a child's needs rather than diagnostic labels, the neuroscience of neuroplasticity, early targeted support, and parents as the key agents of change.
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What does 'neurodivergence' mean? And how does it relate to ADHD and autism?
A plain-English guide to neurodiversity and neurodivergence, where the terms came from, how the medical model and neurodiversity approach differ, and how ADHD and autism fit in.
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