Everyone with school-age children, or working in education, has concerns and questions about when and how we will return to schools-based education. With the help of key collaborators including parents and teachers, we have produced a Back to School Toolkit that, we believe, has something to help everyone to be ready for schools reopening.

We have written this short guide to offer some tips about providing telephone support and advice. Throughout, we share practical examples from our experience. Finally, there is a case example to show how it can
all work in practice.

We’ve produced a new resource called Building Effective Relationships to help young people, families and teachers work together so children with learning difficulties can thrive at school. We hope it will spark a conversation – and would love to hear your thoughts. Email berfeedback@mindroom.org or complete our feedback form.

We've created five films about learning difficulties. Click on an image to learn about the unique strengths of each young person, the challenges they face and five things that can help support them.

ADHD

Dyslexia

DCD

Tourette syndrome

Autism

These films have been created by the Salvesen Mindroom Centre, along with Amber, Dan, Estella, Jennifer, Owen and their parents to help raise awareness and understanding about learning difficulties. You may watch the films for your own personal use, and may share the link to the films via your own social media, but the films cannot be used in any public setting without the prior consent of the Salvesen Mindroom Centre. If you would like to discuss sharing the films publicly, please contact admin@mindroom.org

We've created a film production guide with Daysix, the creative agency that helped us make our own films. It's full of helpful advice about working with children and young people with learning difficulties, and will guide other filmmakers through the process - and other creative enterprises too.

This leaflet was written by the Salvesen Mindroom Centre, and provides an insight to a range of learning difficulties, including:

• Information about learning difficulties
• Facts about some more common conditions associated with learning difficulties
• Examples of how we can make simple changes to support people with learning difficulties reach their potential

ADHD

 Autism

Dyslexia

DCD

Tourette syndrome

If you’re the parent or carer of a child with learning difficulties, this specially produced guide provides all the essential information you need to guide them through life. What to do? Where to go? Who to listen to? Who not to listen to? And what rights does your child have to ensure they have a decent start to life in today’s society?

Introducing our new resource for parents and carers, we have brought together our  “Top 10 Tips” for coping with some of the issues that parents and carers will encounter supporting a child with learning difficulties.  We hope it is a useful starting point on your journey. 

Positive engagement with and for families of children with learning difficulties.

Nell and Dinah from our Direct Help and Support team gave a workshop at the national STEP teachers’ Conference in Stirling. We spoke from our experience of supporting parents and carers, and suggested ways for professionals to achieve positive engagement.

• Watch the workshop here

GTCS Webinar

Head of Direct Help and Support at the Salvesen Mindroom Centre, Mig Coupe, delivered a session with GTCS Chief Executive Ken Muir the host. The webinar aims to support education staff to develop their understanding of a number of learning difficulties, and to identify those difficulties within the classroom. Also to develop knowledge and ideas about how to support children and young people experiencing these learning difficulties.

Download the webinar here.