What is ARFID? An interview with ARFID awareness advocate Michelle Jacques
In this powerful and deeply honest episode, we’re joined by ARFID awareness advocate Michelle Jacques, who shares her family’s journey navig...
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The helpful podcast for families with disabled children
Advice and information podcasts from Contact, the charity for families with disabled children. Covering everything from disability benefits, special education, health and diagnosis, and acce...
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Listen to The helpful podcast for families with disabled children, a Government & Organizations podcast by Contact. Stream 19 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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19 episodesMaking healthcare more accessible for disabled and neurodivergent families
Neurodivergent and disabled families, including those from underrepresented communities, have less access to healthcare services. They have...
How to be disabled and proud (or at least kinda sorta okay with it): An interview with Cathy Reay
Has your child ever felt like they don’t fit in anywhere? Or like no-one understands what things feel like? Maybe they feel like they’re the...
Helping your disabled child transition to secondary school
We're relaunching our podcast with something a little different to what we’ve done before. In this rebooted series of our podcast, we’ll be...
Seven reasons to claim Disability Living Allowance (DLA)
Updated March 2024 Our parent adviser Derek explains why claiming Disability Living Allowance can be a gateway onto more financial help. Hos...
A conversation with Ramou from Peterborough Family Voice
Contact Associate Laura talks to Ramou from Peterborough Family Voice parent carer forum about reaching the work they do reaching out to dif...
Tube feeding with Fledglings
Our Fledglings shop sells clothing, products and equipment to help children and adults with all kinds of disability, condition or area of di...
What is Contact's Listening Ear service?
Listening Ear is our 1-1 telephone appointment service, where you can talk with one of our family support advisers for a listening ear, reas...
The Disabled Children's Partnership lockdown survey and Contact's new services
In May, over 4,000 of you shared your experience of lockdown, in response to the Disabled Children's Partnership survey. In this podcast, we...
Close the Loophole: An interview with Una Summerson about our school transport campaign
School transport is an integral part of a child's education. If a child can't get to school or has a stressful experience getting to school,...
Dealing with Bullying: If the school have informed me my child is bullying
In this podcast we discuss practical tips and advice on what to do if you are informed your child has been exhibiting bullying behaviour. Fo...
Dealing with Bullying : Helping schools recognise the cause of bullying incidents
In this podcast we discuss practical tips on how to help schools recognise and understand the root causes of bullying incidents if they aren...
Dealing with Bullying: Moving forward and resolving bullying if things aren't working
We discuss practical tips on what you can do if steps have been taken by the school, but the bullying is continuing. For further advice, vis...
Dealing with Bullying: Tips on how parents & schools can keep in touch with eachother
In this podcast we give practical tips on how schools and families can keep in touch to see if the actions taken by the school and support f...
Dealing with Bullying: Positive things schools can do to help children being bullied
In this podcast, we discuss positive actions and strategies that schools can put into place to help children who are being bullied and some...
Dealing with Bullying: Supporting your child and how the school can help
In this podcast we discuss practical tips and advice on supporting your child whilst bullying issues are being resolved. For further advice,...
Dealing with Bullying: Meeting with the school
In this podcast we discuss useful tips and advice on meeting with the school to discuss bullying issues to get the best outcomes for your ch...
Dealing with Bullying : Raising your concerns with the school
In this podcast we look at practical advice on how to approach the school if you have concerns that your child is being bullied. For further...
Dealing with bullying: Spotting the signs
In this podcast we discuss how to spot the signs of bullying. If you have concerns that your child is being bullied, you visit our website a...