Children's Community Learning Disabilities Nursing Team - Behaviour Support

Please click on the links below for details on how to access our service:

• Team Information Leaflet
• Team Referral Form
• Eligibility Criteria
• Initial Health Assessment - Information sheet

Here you will find useful information on exploring and developing positive sleep hygiene, there is also a range of recording charts which will provide a clear picture of your child/young person's sleep patterns:

Information

• The bedtime routine
• Developing good bedtime routines
• Establishing a bedtime routine that works for you and your child

 Recording Charts

• Sleep Log
• Night time behaviour
• Medication sleep chart

Visuals

• Visual night-time routine - male
• Visual night-time routine - female
• Reward for staying in bed all night
• Bedtime tokens for getting out of bed

Useful Websites

• Sleep Advice Service
• National Autistic Society - Sleep and Autism
• Children's Sleep Dr app
• Children's Sleep Charity
• Sleep Council

Here you will find useful information on exploring and assessing dietary intake, there is a range of recording charts which will enable a clear picture of your child/young person's dietary intake and how to develop healthy eating.

Information

• Sensory Food Aversion information sheet
• Snack Boxes

Recording Charts

• Record of Food intake
• Record of Fluid intake
• Record of Food and Fluid intake

Visuals

• Healthy Eating plate
• Food desensitisation chart

Useful websites

• One Life Suffolk

Here you will find useful information on exploring and supporting the developing self, this includes growing through puberty, personal hygiene, menstruation, sexual behaviour there is also a range of resources to aid skill development.

Information

• What does your child need to know about sex?
• Keep yourself healthy - a guide for males to keeping clean
• Keep yourself healthy - a guide for females to keeping clean
• Keeping yourself healthy (younger children)

Visuals

• Guide to having a period
• Period Book - a guidance document that can be used by parents  / carers with young people (a Word version can be provided when requested)
• Adolescent private body parts
• Teeth brushing
• Showering
• Visual aids for showing (boys)
• Visual aids for bathing (girls)

Websites

• NSPCC - Talk PANTS

Here you will find useful information on exploring and assessing sensory needs. There is also a range of activities which can be used to promote positive sensory behaviours.

Information:

• What is a sensory diet
• Making sense of sensory behaviour
• Lindsey Biel Sensory Checklist
• Online Learning

Books: 

• Book Sensory Circuits: A sensory motor skills programme for children by Jane Horwood
• Book Sensory Strategies: Practical ways to help children and young people with autism learn and achieve by Laurie Corrina

Visuals:

• examples of sensory circuits
• examples of sensory activities

Websites:

• New Life Sensory Pods
• Sensational Brain
• SENSI
• Example sensory circuit
• Raising a sensory smart child
• Positive about Autism

Here you will find useful information on exploring and developing self-esteem, there is a range of resources that can be used to develop positive self-esteem and managing emotions.

Information

• Developing understanding of emotions and feelings

Visuals

• Images showing faces of people's feelings and emotions
• Breathing Exercises - Dragon Breathing Craft Exercise
• What to do when I am angry - worried cards and key rings
• 1-5 Anxiety Scale
• What can I do when I am angry - Choice Cards
• Happy, Sad and Angry - Sorting Activity

Websites

•  Kooth - Online Mental Wellbeing Community       
•  Link to transporters

Here you will find useful information on exploring and assessing behaviours that challenge, there is a range of baseline recording charts which will enable a clear picture of the child/young person's behaviours and how to consider develop approaches to manage these.

Information

• 'First and Then' or 'Now and Next' Information Sheet
• 'Good Ignoring' information Sheet
• Choice Boards and Posting Boxes Information Sheet
• Quiet Time Information Sheet
• Reward Systems Information Sheet
• Time Out Information Sheet
• Use of Timers Information Sheet
• Use of Visual Timetable / Schedule Information Sheet
• Behaviour Recording Charts Information Sheet
• Comic Strip Conversations Information Sheet

Here you will find useful information on developing reward systems.

Information

• Reward System Information Sheet

Visuals

• Marble Jar and Marbles
• Basic Reward Chart
• Reward sheet for when your child has had a good day
• 'I have done well' Information Sheet

Websites

• Twinkl - Planning and Assessment materials   

We can use stories to explain social situations, events and describe what will be happening, to help them to understand social situations and to have positive experiences.

• Blood Test at the Hospital
• ECG at the Hospital
• X-ray at the Hospital
• Non verbal pain scale

• National Autistic Society - Transforming lives and changing attitudes
• Autism speaks
• Challenging Behaviour Foundation
• Downs Syndrome Association
• Learning Disabilities and Autism Support - East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust
• Mencap 
• My Health Passport - West Suffolk NHS Trust
• My Hospital Passport - Addenbrooke's 
• Addenbrooke's - Accessibility - includes Health Passports and Communication books
• NHS - Autism: How to help with your child's behaviour 
• Scope - Managing your child's challenging behaviour

We are committed to providing high quality care and in order to improve our services we value your comments regarding the care and support you have received from the Team. 

If you are a parent or carer of a child who has recently received a service from us we would be grateful if you could complete this online survey: 

• Parent / Carer Survey

If you are a young person who has recently received a service from us we would be grateful if you could complete this online survey:

• Young Person Survey

If you would prefer to use an 'easy read' version with pictures please click on the link below:

• Easy Read Survey

Or you may prefer to use this Word version:

• Young Person Survey (Word version)

If you complete the Easy Read or Word version, please return to us by email or by post. 

If you are a professional who has worked in close partnership with us we would be grateful if you could complete this online survey:

• Professional Survey

All responses received will be anonymous.  We do not ask you to fill in your name, unless you would like us to contact you about your views.

 The feedback forms will be collated on a 6 monthly basis. The results will be analysed, recorded and fed back to the team.  The results will be kept in the team file and a copy sent to the Lead for Disabled Children and Young People’s Services, Suffolk County Council.