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Professor Caroline Richards

Professor Caroline Richards, Professor of Neurodevelopmental Conditions, is a Clinical Psychologist and researcher at the University of Birmingham. Caroline leads our programme of sleep and behaviour research. This research will help us to understanding why sleep problems occur in children with intellectual disability, autism and rare genetic syndromes, and help families to find solutions to these sleep difficulties. https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/psychology/richards-caroline.aspx 
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Dr Hayley Crawford

Dr Hayley Crawford is an Associate Professor at Warwick Medical School and network lead for the Cerebra Network. Alongside Dr Jane Waite, Hayley leads our mental health research programme, focusing on characterising behavioural and mental health outcomes in individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders associated with intellectual disability. Her work to date has primarily focused on understanding autism, anxiety, ADHD and behaviours that challenge in children and ...
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Specific phobia in children with learning disabilities

In this seminar, Professor Kylie Gray presented the findings of the study titled “Specific phobia in children with learning disabilities (SPIRIT)”. Professor Kylie Gray is the Director of Research and Director of Postgraduate Research at the Centre for Research in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, University of Warwick. She has over 25 years of research and clinical experience in intellectual and developmental disability autism assessment, diagnosis, ...
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We’ve just added some new items to our e-library!

Our BorrowBox library has a selection of e-books and a-audiobooks that parent/carers can borrow to read or listen to and we have just added some new ones. They cover Autism; ADHD; Tourettes; toilet training; difficult emotions and many other subjects. They include the Best Sellers ‘Your Child is Not Broken’ by Heidi Mavir on e-book and ‘A Kind of Spark’ by Elle McNicoll on e-audiobook. ...
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Template Letters

There are different letter templates for England, Wales and Scotland and they cover a numbers of topics. They aim to make your letters more effective.
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Mental Health in Children with Rare Genetic Conditions

This toolkit is for parents and carers of children with a rare genetic condition, particularly those known to be associated with neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions (for example, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Intellectual Disability, anxiety and/or depression). The aim of this toolkit is to inform parents about mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions in children with rare genetic conditions.
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Communication with Children with Severe or Profound Intellectual Disabilities

This guide has been developed to help family carers of children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities to understand more about communication challenges and to suggest helpful strategies to improve communication. This guide looks at communication within a partnership and considers the skills and challenges for both people within communication exchanges. Professionals working with families of children with severe to profound intellectual disabilities may also ...
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Self Injurious Behaviour in Children with Intellectual Disability

Prof. Chris Oliver, Dr Louise Davies and Dr Caroline Richards. Cerebra Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, University of Birmingham. This briefing has been written to help parents and carers of children with an intellectual disability to understand what self-injury is, what the causes are and which interventions are effective. The briefing focuses on children with profound to moderate intellectual disability, who may also have autism spectrum ...
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Diagnostic Overshadowing Webinar Review

A recording of the webinar is now available at the end of this article if you’d like to catch up in full. Introduction Dr Jo Moss opened the webinar by placing our focus on the importance of prioritising the long term health and well-being of children and young people with a genetic condition associated with intellectual disability. Research has shown that having a genetic condition ...
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Why Our Research is Important – Cerebra Family Research Group

Centre for Educational Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR) University of Warwick Cerebra Family Research Group “Strengthening families” Why our research is important One of the biggest influences on the development of all children is their family. Children with brain conditions are no different to all other children in this respect – their development is also affected by what happens within their family. The context of ...
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