Workshops for Information, Support and Education (WISE)
Being a parent carer of a child or young person with additional needs can bring extra situations which are challenging to know how to handle. To help support parent carers navigate these a range of workshops have been created by Somerset Parent Carer Forum based on the subjects you have told them would be helpful.
The idea behind the project is to empower parent carers through Workshops for Information, Support and Education. All the workshops will be delivered or co-delivered by someone with lived experience of being a parent carer.
What does it cover?
Topics to be covered over the year include:
- Movement difficulties including dyspraxia
- Visual processing and visual stress
- Auditory processing and noise sensitivity
- Sensory processing
- Social development and friendship skills
- Understanding and supporting behaviour
- Communication support
- ADHD and executive functioning
- Dyslexia
- Anxiety
- Autistic masking
- Autism and eating difficulties
- Autism and toileting
- Demand avoidance
- Siblings
- Sleep
- Growing up and transitions
- Emotional based school avoidance
- LGBTQAI+ and neurodiversity
- Attachment and neurodiversity
- Talking to your child about neurodiversity
Find out more in the WISE Up Sessions Booklet.
How to register
Bookings for the course are being managed by Somerset Parent Carer Forum. You don’t need to be a member of the forum to attend but will need to be added to their database to enable your booking details to be secure.
Your child does not need to have a diagnosis. Everyone in the partnership delivering the sessions believes you should have access to support when you need it. Sessions are open to all parent carers who live in Somerset.
Go to the Somerset Parent Carer Forum WISE Up event page to register.
