ADHD Support

Parents and carers of children registered with a GP surgery in the Berkshire West NHS area (Reading, Wokingham and West Berkshire) – click here for a list – who have possible or confirmed ADHD can benefit from the support services detailed below.

  • If you would like to register an interest in attending the free Sleep Difficulties workshop or ADHD courses, or have any questions, please complete the online referral form for our partners Parenting Special Children, who provide the service’s ADHD support. You can also email contact@autismberkshire.org.uk or call 01189 594 594 (option 1) and leave a voicemail message. If a booking link for a workshop is shown, you can register yourself to attend.
  • If you are a health, education or social care professional who supports ADHD children and young people and their families and you want to make a referral to the service, please click here for our referral form for professionals.

Helpline 

Advice about support for families of children and young people with ADHD is available by emailing contact@autismberkshire.org.uk or calling 01189 594 594 (option 1). Also provides information about Autism Berkshire’s other services. Click here for more details about the Helpline.

ADHD advice workshops

For parents and carers, with Parenting Special Children’s specialist trainers. Please note that these free online workshops are delivered as a linked series of three workshops, not as individual sessions.

An Introduction to ADHD: Looks at What is ADHD?, the challenges and concerns and the strengths and opportunities associated with ADHD, and signposting to management strategies.

Anxiety & ADHD: Looks at What is Anxiety?, why it makes sense to be anxious if you have ADHD, strategies to help support you and your child, plus signposting to other support that is available.

Managing ADHD Behaviours: Looks at attention challenges, hyperactive behaviours and impulsive behaviours and shares behaviour management strategies to help you and your child.

Forthcoming series of ADHD workshops (all sessions 7pm to 9pm):

  • Thursdays June 25, July 2 & 9 – click here to register.

Follow-on workshops

Sleep Difficulties: This workshop for parents and carers, with trainers from Parenting Special Children, covers ADHD and autistic children’s sleep cycles and sleep needs, the reasons behind night settling and night waking, strategies to help parents and carers feel less stressed when sleep training a child, and parenting strategies for settling a child to sleep and staying asleep.

Forthcoming workshops:

  • Thursday, July 7, 7pm to 9pm – click here to register.

Preparing for Adulthood: The aim of these workshops is to help the parents and carers of autistic and ADHD teenagers (aged 13 and above) to navigate the transition to adulthood and to support their young people with knowledge, skills and confidence.

Forthcoming workshops:

  • Wednesday, July 1, 10am to 11.30am.

This is a new evidence-based workshop from the Berkshire West Autism & ADHD Support Service team, that aims to encourage parents/carers of teenagers aged 13+ to start thinking about this topic at an early stage:

  • Think about individual strengths and challenges, plus what is important to and for their young person and tips about how to discuss this with them
  • Identify individual things for parents/carers and young people to focus on from a checklist of suggestions.
  • Make a plan with their young person about what they want to work on first and next.
  • Look at ideas to help their young person plan what to do and who can help.
  • Find out about other local organisations that can advise and help parents, carers and teenagers at this key stage in young people’s lives.

All these services are funded by the NHS Thames Valley Integrated Care Board and are available free of charge, along with other help available from the Berkshire West Autism & ADHD Support Service.