We know that many of the children and young people that were accessing our service in person experienced high levels of anxiety.  We want to be able to continue to support those children and young people remotely through this blog and Facebook.  If any of you would like to speak to us just use our contact form and we can arrange a call.
In the absence of personal contact we will keep posting helpful resources.  The workbook below is all about recognising emotions and identifying where and when they emerge.  Developing this ability makes a huge difference to how resilient young people are.  This resource comes from a website called Help 4 Hurting Kids and it is chock-full of amazing resources.  Thanks again to Amanda for finding this and many other reources that we'll post soon.
Another great source of resources for personal use is the Homeschool Giveaways website.  Please check it out and share it.  Also please feel free to leave comments if you have other ideas for activities.

As many of you will know it is Autism Awareness week this week and tomorrow in Autism Awareness Day.  So I thought I'd take this opportunity to promote an online resource that I have personally learnt a lot from over the las few years.  It's called Early Years TV (the brainchiild of Kathy Brodie) and is geared at Early Years poviders.  Each week Kathy posts an interview with an expert in various disciplines and concepts.  It is free to sign up but you can pay for access to all videos.  This week the interview is with Chloé Hayden who is 22 years old from Australia, diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome at the age of 13, who spends her life advocating for children on the spectrum through interactive, fun videos and blog posts.  Click here to go to the interview.

Ok, so I'm not an experienced blogger but we all have to turn our hands to new skills in changing times; if anything qualifies as "changing times" it's what we're experiencing right now. Changing rules day-by-day and challenging circumstances for us all.
Here at Castleton Health and Leisure we believe in fostering positive and growth mindsets so we've been scowering the web and all our files looking for materials that will help those thrust into home educating their children.  We also look for positive videos, helpful ideas for fun activities.
My colleagues will pass on their ideas to me and I will do my best to categorise them and upload them here.  First up we have a link to this incredible website: And Next Comes L.  
It has a lot of really useful resources and though it is designed to help parents of children with Hyperlexia and /or Autism but it looks like a lot of parents could find something useful there....like this.