Watch our Films
Dan & Charlie: 5 years on, life on the Autism Spectrum
Dad and son, Dan and Charlie share how their experience of living with Autism has changed in the five years since we last spoke in this Real life experience film.
Rachel – Life as a SENCO
In this 13-minute interview Rachel, the SENCO explains that Parents are often the first to notice if their child might be struggling. This might come to light when they’re watching their child in playgroups. A nursery teacher can pick things up too. She highlights the importance of the check that is done by a health visitor when the child is two years old.
Fathers on Caring
Are you a dad getting to grips with parenting a child with additional needs?
Here, we talk to three dads who have an active and engaged role in looking after their child with additional needs. In this film, Damien, Anil and Usman open up about the challenges they have faced, the reality of the day-to-day, things they have learned along the way and where they have turned to look for support.
Understanding Self-Harm
Self-harm is when you hurt yourself as a way of dealing with very difficult feelings, painful memories or overwhelming situations and experiences. It can be the acute reaction people turn to when they feel they have no other option.
Self-harm affects more people than you might think. It is estimated that between 10%-20% of all people self-harm at some point during their lifetime. It is hard to gather exact figures due to the stigma surrounding self-harm, and because people try to hide their wounds, scars and bruises.
The average age of the first incident of self-harm is around 12/13, though the rate of self-harm among younger children (aged 9-12) in the UK has increased in the last ten years.
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Living with ADHD – Debbie’s Story
In this very personal 4-minute video, Debbie talks about the challenges she faced getting a diagnosis, and shares her experience of living with ADHD. Debbie belongs to ADHD Babes, a support group for Black women and Black non-binary people of African-Caribbean descent with ADHD.
Emily’s journey to recovery from Self-Harm
As this film explains, pressure to succeed, feelings of guilt and deep and strong emotions that need to be resolved, can lead someone to self-harm but that only acts as a momentary release.
Talking to someone to share worries can be a great help.
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Bulimia in Young People: Susannah’s story
Aged 10 Susannah became worried about her body image leading to dieting, weight loss, self-harm and bulimia. In this 9-minute film she relates her experience with eating disorders. She began to realise that others had similar experiences and how sharing stories helps recovery.
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Further information:
These short films feature real-life accounts from children and young people with neurodevelopmental and mental health conditions. Some feature young adults, retrospectively looking at what the early signs of their mental health condition were, and what they or their parents could’ve done to handle it in a more beneficial way.
As a parent, this gives you an insight into what your child may be experiencing and how to notice if your child has a neurodevelopmental or mental health condition. There are also films featuring the experiences of parents with neurodivergent children and what they do to help their child.
