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National support

To contact the SEN Parent Partnership Service please visit our Contacts page.  The following organisations are further possible sources of advice and extended support.

Hearing Impairment

National Deaf Children’s Society 
15 Dufferin Street 
London EC1Y 8UR 
0207 490 8656 
www.ndcs.org.uk

Physical Difficulty

British Epilepsy Association 
New Anstey House 
Gateway Drive 
Yeadon
Leeds LS19 7XY 
0113 210 8800 
www.epilepsy.org.uk

Child Growth Foundation 
2 Mayfield Avenue 
Chiswick 
London W4 1PW
0208 995 0257

Children’s Head Injury Trust 
Radcliffe Infirmary 
Woodstock Road 
Oxford OX2 6HE 
01865 552467 
execdir@chit.demon.co.uk

Children’s Liver Disease Foundation 
36 Great Charles Street 
Birmingham B3 3JY 
0121 212 3839
www.childliverdisease.org
cld@childliverdisease.org

Cystic Fibrosis Trust 
11 London Road 
Bromley 
Kent BR1 1BY 
0208 464 7211 
www.cftrust.org.uk

Dyspraxia Foundation 
8 West Alley 
Hitchen 
Herts SG5 1EG 
0146 245 4986 
www.dyspraxiafoundation.org.uk

REACH (Association for children with hand or arm deficiency) 
25 High Street 
Wellingborough 
Northamptonshire NN8 4JZ 
0193 327 4126 
www.reach.org.uk

SCOPE 
0808 800 3333 
www.scope.org.uk

Speech, Language and Communication

Dyslexia Institute 
133 Gresham Road 
Staines 
Middlesex TW18 2AJ 
01784 463851 
www.dyslexia-inst.org.uk

I Can 
4 Dyers Building 
Holborn 
London EC1N 2QP 
0870 010 4066 
www.ican.org.uk

Mencap 
Unit 4 Swan Court Yard 
Charles Edward Road 
Birmingham B26 1BU 
0121 707 7877 
www.mencap.org.uk

National Autistic Society 
393 City Road 
London EC1V 1NG 
0207 833 2299
www.nas.org.uk

Visual Impairment

LOOK: National Federation of Families with Visually Impaired Children 
Queen Alexandra College 
49 Court Oak Road 
Birmingham B17 9TG 
0121 428 5038 
www.look-uk.org

Partially Sighted Society 
9 Plato Place 
72-74 Dionis Road 
London SW6 4TU 
0207 371 0289 
jim.leeder.users.btopenworld.com/LHON/uk-pss.htm

Royal National Institute for the Blind 
105 Judd Street 
London WC1H 9NE 
0207 388 1266 
www.rnib.org.uk

Other

Afasic
2nd Floor 
50-52 Great Sutton Street 
London EC1V 0DE 
0207 490 9410 
www.afasic.org.uk

Contact a Family
209-211 City Road
London EC1V 1JN
020 7608 8700
Helpline 0808 808 3555
www.cafamily.org.uk

Down's Sydrome Association
155 Mitcham Road 
London SW17 9PG
0208 682 4001 
www.downs-syndrome.org.uk

The Hyperactive Children's Support Group
71 Whyke Lane 
Chichester
West Sussex PO19 2LD 
0190 372 5182 
www.hacsg.org.uk

In Touch
10 Norman Road 
Sale 
Cheshire M33 3DF 
0161 905 2440 
www.inclusive.co.uk/support/intouch

IPSEA (Independent Panel for Special Education Advice)
6 Carlow Mews 
Woodbridge 
Suffolk IP12 1DH 
0800 018 4016 
www.ipsea.org.uk

National Portage Association
P.O. Box 3075 
Yeovil BA21 3FB 
01935 471 641 
www.portage.org.uk

Network 81
1-7 Woodfield Terrace
Stansted 
Essex CM24 8AJ 
0870 770 3263 
www.network81.co.uk

Save the Children
Centre for Young Children’s Rights 
356 Holloway Road 
London N7 6PA 
0207 700 8127 
www.savethechildren.org.uk

Williams Syndrome Foundation
161 High Street 
Tonbridge 
Kent TN9 1BX 
01732 365152 
www.williams-syndrome.org.uk

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