Support for neurodivergent children and young people

Mentoring (in-person and online)

We can work one-to-one with your child to help them understand and embrace their neurodivergent identity.

Using a positive, strengths-based approach, our mentoring specifically focuses on: 


• Building positive neurodivergent identity: Helping children and young people embrace their authentic selves, including by recognising their sensory, social and learning strengths and preferences.

• Understanding anxiety and overwhelm by developing personalised regulation strategies.

• Creating pathways forward: Exploring educational options, courses and next steps that align with a child’s individual strengths and interests. We will also discuss neuroaffirmative thinking and concepts, such as double empathy and monotropism, and support discussions around the differences and similarities between neurotypes.

A neurodivergent social group

We can offer your child a place in a small, weekly/fortnightly social group, consisting of no more than three other neurodivergent children or young people with aligned interests and social communication preferences.

Being part of a group can help your child to:

• experience meaningful social connections which may lead to friendships

• experience social success

• better understand themselves within the context of neurodivergence

• discuss within a safe and supportive group any challenges they face in relation to anxiety, social interactions and sensory differences

• get practical support and advice from the group facilitator on how to understand or manage these challenges

• increase their feelings of self-worth, self-confidence and self-esteem.

Support for the parents and caregivers of neurodivergent children and young people

Applying for Disability Living Allowance or Personal Independence Payment

If your child requires additional support beyond what is typical for their age, they may be eligible for non-means tested benefits, such as Disability Living Allowance (DLA) or Personal Independence Payment (PIP).

If you find the application process daunting, we can help by gathering evidence with you and writing the application on your behalf .

An Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA) request

If you need an Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) for your child, we can support you through the following stages:

• Requesting an Education, Health and Care Needs Assessment (EHCNA), otherwise known as EHCP application

• Supporting you to write your parental views after the local authority has agreed to assess

An Education, Health and Care Plan (EHCP) review

If your child’s EHCP is at draft stage or going through an annual review, we can review it to ensure the plan is written using neuroaffirming language. We can also suggest clear and specific amendments to ensure the provision being agreed is appropriate for your child’s personality, needs and preferences and all professional recommendations have been included.

If you’d like additional supporting evidence, we can combine the EHCP review with our professional observation and report service (see below).

Professional observation and report

We can provide supporting evidence for your child’s EHCP and/or offer guidance to your child’s school on how best to support them.

We do this by observing your child in school or at home then providing a written report in an EHCP format (covering Sections B, E and F), which will identify your child’s needs, the provision required and the most effective objectives to set.

The aim is to ensure that you recognise your child in the EHCP when you read it, and you would be happy for them to read it when they are old enough. The report will describe changes to the environment, activities and staff approaches, which need to happen to give your child the support they need, rather than suggesting what could be done to help your child ‘fit in’.

A request for alternative educational provision

If your child is struggling to attend school, with or without an EHCP, we can support you by writing a letter to request alternative provision, known as a Section 19 Notice.

Also available as packages:

• Combined EHCNA request and Section 19 Notice letter

• Combined professional observation report and EHCP review

Unsure what support you need?

If you are unsure which package is right for you, please book a FREE 15-minute consultation with us so we can guide you through our services and discuss what will work best for your child.

Our prices

All our packages have set costs. You can view our prices and further details on each package by clicking on the link below.

New price list to be published shortly

Bespoke services

Sometimes, you or your child might need support that falls outside of our standard services. We offer the following bespoke support – and more besides:

• Attendance at meetings (including mediation and tribunals)
  We can attend meetings with you as a Neuroaffirmative SEND Consultant. In those meetings we can give our professional opinion about the needs of your child and the provision they require and support you to get your points across.

• Complaints to local authorities stage 1 and 2 (including S19/42)
  If your child has an EHCP and you are concerned about whether the provisions specified are fully in place, we can write a letter for you to send which will serve as a formal reminder of the local authority’s legal duty (known as a Section 42 letter). We can provide a Section 42 letter in combination with a Section 19 letter and notice (see above for information on our Section 19 service).

• Online consultations
  We can provide a 30 or 60 minute online consultation for you to discuss whatever you want to in relation to your child. You may want to discuss what is happening at home or school. We can talk you through what might be going on with your child and suggest supportive strategies for you to try. You could also use a consultation to get advice on what to say when you meet with your child’s school or the local authority, or find out how your young person’s mentoring sessions are going. The time is yours to get whatever support and advice you need.

• Drafting/reviewing emails
  If you would like to send an email or emails about your child (for example, to the local authority, your child’s school or any other professional), we can draft them for you to review, or review what you have written and suggest amendments.  

• Reviewing paperwork
  We can review any professional report in relation to your child and provide feedback and/or suggest amendments (for example, from your child’s school, the local authority or support services like speech therapy, occupational therapy and educational psychology).

• Home-support strategies
  If your child is often dysregulated at home, we can help you to understand why (using a neuroaffirmative lens) and give you some practical strategies to address whatever is happening. Typical areas parent/carers ask for support with are: sensory needs, sibling relationships, getting ready for school in the morning, going to bed, transitions (from home to school or in community spaces like the supermarket or public transport), or a number of these things. As an additional service, we can provide written notes from our meeting so you have a summary of the key strategies discussed.

• Pre-assessment for neurodivergence
  We can complete a professional observation or meet your child at home or their place of learning and provide verbal or written feedback on the likelihood that they are autistic and/or ADHD. Although we cannot offer an official diagnosis, we have extensive knowledge and experience of working with neurodivergent children and young people and can provide our professional opinion. As an additional service, we can provide a summary of our observations, which you can then use as evidence if you seek a formal assessment.

• Provision maps, alternate provision and education other than in school (EOTIS) requests (including personal budget requests)
  If your child’s school has devised a map of the support they are going to provide at school, we can check that it covers everything your child needs, particularly if the map is linked to an EHCP and/or alternative provision. Alternatively, we can help you to devise a provision map, which you can then propose to your child’s school or the local authority.  

  We can write an EOTIS request on your behalf for you to submit to the local authority. This request would recommend alternative providers (such as tutors, mentors, social groups) based on the provisions outlined in Section F of your child’s EHCP. We can also advise on including personal budget requests in an EOTIS request.

• Reviewing school applications of EHCNA views of EHCNA
  If your child’s school has applied for an EHCNA (the route to getting an EHCP), with the school’s permission, we can review their application and suggest amendments.

• Supporting parent/carer views during an EHCNA
  If you have written your parent/carer views as part of an EHCNA, we can review them and suggest amendments, or we can write them on your behalf for you to review and submit.

 Our bespoke services are priced on a case-by-case basis.

 If what you need is not on the list, we may still be able to help.