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Links are provided for information and convenience only. We cannot accept responsibility for the sites linked to, or the information found there.

A link does not imply an endorsement of a site; likewise, not linking to a particular site does not imply lack of endorsement.

If you would like to submit details of a website which does not appear in this listing please contact us.

local links

Advocacy Partners - Provides advocacy to people with disabilities in Surrey

Carers Contactline - encompassing Carers' Information Service, Croydon Carers Contact, Young Carers Support Project, and Rethink.

Croydon Health Community
Croydon On-line

Croyweb.com

Croydonweb.com

Disabledgo - detailed access information for Croydon

Disability Challengers - play and leisure facilities in Epsom and Guildford

Kingston Special Needs Project - run by parents for parents

support and information - general

ACE - Advisory Centre for Education

Action for Sick Children

AbilityHub - Assistive Technology Solutions

ALLFIE - Alliance for Inclusive Education

Aromacaring

Association of Children's Hospices
Bandaides and Blackboards - about growing up with medical problems

Birth Defect Foundation

British Sign Language

British Wheelchair Sports Foundation

Carers UK
Children's Trust
CLIMB - children living with inherited metabolic diseases
Contact A Family
Council for Disabled Children
Crossroads - caring for carers

Dept for Education and Skills - Special Educational Needs pages

Dept for Work and Pensions - benefits and services for disabled and carers
Disability Alliance - info and advice on benefits

Disability Foundation UK

Disability Now
Family Fund Trust

Familyonwards.com - the Jill Curtis helpsite for parents and grandparents

ForParentsByParents - looks at all the life changing elements of parenthood

Goshkids.nhs.uk - interactive guide to life & health for children & young people

Healthboards.com - internet discussion boards for over 120 health topics

HE-Special-UK - Home education for Special Educational Needs

Homestart

Inclusive Technology

IPSEA - Independant Panel for Special Education Advice

Kids - a national charity working for children with special needs

KidsHealth.com

Makaton - vocabulary development project

Motability - car scheme for disabled people

NASEN - National Association for Special Educational Needs

National Portage Association

National Reye's Syndrome Foundation of the UK

Network 81 - a national network of parents working towards properly resourced inclusive education for children with SEN

OMNI - Organising Medical Networked Information

Osteopathy-london.co.uk - specialist osteopathic treatment

Parenting Special Needs

Phab England

Rainbow Trust

React (Rapid Effective Assistance for Children with potentially Terminal illness)

SANDS - Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (support for bereaved families)

SEN Legal

SKILL: National Bureau for Students With Disabilities

Special-abilities.net
Special Child

(the) Sutherland Society - UK organisation for Cranial Osteopaths

SWAN - Syndromes Without A Name

UNIQUE (Rare Chromosome Disorder Support Group)

Voice UK - supporting people with learning disabiliities who have experienced crime or abuse

Whizz Kidz - mobility aids
Write Away - penfriend clubs

Yourable.com - info, products and services for disabled people

support and information - specific conditions

Action for blind people

ADSHG - Addison's Disease Self Help Group

AFASIC for speech and language impairments

Arthritis Care

ASBAH - association for spina bifida and hydrocephalus

Ataxia

AutismMedical.com

British Heart Foundation

BILD - British Institute for Learning Disabilities

Cancerlink - practical and emotional support for people with cancer

Changing Faces

Children's Heart Federation

Children's Liver Disease Foundation

CLAPA - Cleft lip and palate association

Cystic Fibrosis Trust

Diabetes UK

Different Strokes

Downs Syndrome Association

Downs Syndrome Educational Trust

Dyspraxia Foundation

Dystonia Society

Encephalitis Information Resource

Epilepsy Action

FAST - Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Trust

Glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome (GLUT1-DS)

Haemophilia Society

Headway - the brain injuries association

HemiHelp - Info and support for children with hemiplegia

I CAN - for children with speech and language difficulties

Lupus Site (The)

Mencap

Meningitis Research Foundation

Meningitis Trust

MIND - The Mental Health Charity

Moebius Syndrome Support Group (UK)
Mucopolysaccharide Diseases (The Society for)

Muscular Dystrophy Campaign

National Asthma Campaign

National Autistic Society including Asperger's Syndrome

National Blind Children's Society

National Deaf Children's Society

National Eczema Society

NTSAD - National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association

Pierre Robin Support Group UK

Reach - the association for children with hand or arm deficiency

Rett Syndrome Association

Sargent Cancer Care for children
Scope

Sickle Cell Society

Steps - national association of children with lower limb abnormalities

Tourettes Syndrome

Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula Support including gastro-oesophageal reflux

The following sites are a good resource of further links, far too many to list them all here seperately!
Find Support National Directory
Long-Term Medical Conditions Alliance
UK self help information
iwant2bhealthy.com

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