Services for Autism

Training can be provided across a range of themes relating to Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Asperger Syndrome. Training events and workshops can be tailored to client needs, including parent groups and the school workforce and organizations working with children and young people with Autistic Spectrum Disorder.

Lapwing deliver bespoke alternative education to young people aged 4 to 25 years old who are struggling to manage in a mainstream, PRU or special school/college placement. Given the breadth and range of their experience they work with a whole range of complex needs including (but not limited to) mainstream learning difficulties; social, emotional and mental health; and severe learning disabilities.

The Leicestershire SEND Hub is a parent carer led organisation for families of children and young people with additional or special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) who live or access services in Leicestershire. Our role is to be a bridge parent carers and their service providers. 

We are an autistic-led learning centre for autistic children in Years 5 to 9. We provide nine hours of small group tuition, per pupil, per week across academic, wellbeing and collaboration. Oaks Rise utilises a low-demand approach to all activities, meaning that learners are welcome to join activities or to work independently. This helps learners to feel safe in the knowledge that they have autonomy in the learning environment. Each session at Oaks Rise involves a mix of group work, individual project-based work and, if learners wish, more traditional ‘work-book’ style learning.

Paws for Thought is an independent Care Farm based near the river Deben Woodbridge in an area of outstanding natural beauty. We work with children and teenagers between the ages of 8 and 16, with mental health issues, learning difficulties, behavioural problems, looked after children and child carers.