Parent Support Group

Venue: Tree Tops Children’s Occupational Therapy, Eldon Road, Aycliffe Business Park, DL5 6UL Time:   7.00pm Why not come along to our sensory dental hygiene evening hosted by Elaine from Oral Health Promotion? She will be able to talk us through how to keep a sensory seeker’s teeth clean (plus any child really). Elaine has…

Sibling workshop – 5th January 2018 Our parent support group gained funding from Tesco Groundwork UK scheme and asked us to put into action a workshop for the siblings of their SPD brothers and sisters.  As you can see we split them into two groups: 6-9 year olds and 10+ year olds. It was such…

National Children & Young People’s Mental Health Awards We are delighted to inform you that our Sensory Processing Disorder Parent Support Group North East England was highly commended by the NC&YPMH Awards on Saturday 6 January 2018 in the Outreach to Vulnerable Groups Award. Well done! The event was organised by Positive Practice in Mental…

More good news for Tree Tops Children’s Occupational Therapy. We are very proud to announce that our parent support group, Sensory Processing Disorder Parent Support Group North East England have been shortlisted for the Out Reach to Vulnerable Groups award which will take place in Manchester on Saturday 6th January 2018. There are also another…

Xmas party at 4Motion – will try to get a selection box or something similar for each child attending. If your child cannot eat chocolate and you are going, can you let us know what else they could eat. Oral dental hygiene nurse to help with sensory issues – coming along Monday 5th February, 7.00pm.…

Why not come along to our meeting tonight and have a chat with like-minded parents? Tonight will be just a catch up and discussing 2018 and how we can help our children.  Refreshments will be served.   Venue: Tree Tops Children’s Occupational Therapy, Eldon Road, Aycliffe Business Park, Co Durham, DL5 6UL

The next venture of the parent support group is vitally important. Read on… We have approached AVIVA to try and gain funding so we can organise a conference in the North East to raise awareness of SPD for health professionals, teachers, parents, you name it. We need as many votes as we can get to…

Any blue tokens you receive when shopping, don’t forget to put them into our slot! We are hoping to arrange some exciting training events for the whole group! Participating stores are:- *Newton Aycliffe *Darlington (beside Cornmill Centre) *Bishop Auckland If you have no participating store send/drop them into Tree Tops Children’s Occupational Therapy in Newton…

What a fantastic evening! There have been some children getting over fears, some learning to ride bikes and many more. Well done to all the children – they are a credit to their families. The group hired the venue for a two hour slot and it was full of budding youngsters whizzing up, down, and…

Thank you to all our parents/carers who came along to our sensory training morning. Firstly the group would like to thank County Durham Community Foundation for providing the grant to enable us to gain much more needed insight into our children’s difficulties. An email with some pictures from the day will be sent to the…