Will a Families In Focus course help me with SEND challenges?

Yes, we offer specialized SEND courses for parents of children with Autism and ADHD (including those on assessment pathways) helping you to better understand and respond to your child’s needs. You will meet other parents living in similar families to your own, to share experiences and ideas.

These course are free and fully funded by Hertfordshire County Council.

Choose a relevant SEND course:

Complete guide to parenting a child aged 2-11 years with Autism or ADHD (including those on assessment pathways)

OR

Handling anger in children with Autism or ADHD (including those on assessment pathways)

What will I learn from a SEND parenting course?

Our courses teach evidence based strategies to understand behaviours, support emotional regulation, improve communication and build positive connected family relationships. Build emotional confidence so you feel a more confident parent to meet your child’s needs

  • Understanding behaviours

Learn why children act the way they do and what triggers emotional reactions

  • Anger management techniques

Find tools to reduce and respond better to emotional dysregulation that can lead to meltdowns

  • Communication skills

Practice and enhance empathic listening and responses and behaviours that challenge, and increase emotional literacy

  • Support siblings

Learn the needs of siblings and how to best support them

  • Practical parenting tools

Take away strategies, free work sheets and ideas you can easily apply at home

  • Small interactive groups

Share experiences from families similar to yours and learn from each other

 

 

What SEND support courses are available in Hertfordshire?

Our online award-winning, evidence-based, therapeutic SEND courses are:

  • The complete guide to parenting children aged 2 to 11 years with SEND and inclusive of those whose children are on assessment pathways.
  • Handling anger of primary-aged children with Autism or ADHD and inclusive of those whose children are on assessment pathways.

SEND courses

The complete guide to parenting children aged 3 to 11 years with SEND and inclusive of those whose children are on assessment pathways.
Handling anger of primary-aged children with Autism or ADHD and inclusive of those whose children are on assessment pathways.

We offer private parenting sessions to those living outside of Hertfordshire

Click the link to book your place to transform your family life:

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Parent courses

All of our courses are free to parents living in Hertfordshire, and are run by us – Francine and Lesley. We offer a range of topics to help parents to navigate the challenges of daily life.

95 per cent of our parent attendees would highly recommend our services to other parents.

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We have a busy, engaged and supportive following of SEND parents who, along with our experienced team, are always on hand to offer support, advice and friendship. We also curate a closed Facebook group of SEND parents who support each other and offer advice, shoulders to cry on and laughter.

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“Everything was so amazing and the course was brilliant, we gained so much in-depth, practical knowledge, up-to-date information, and emotional support from Lesley and Francine and other parents in the group that has helped us to understand and help our son.”