Useful resources

• Accessibility Derbyshire
• Accessibility England
• Accessible swimming
• Changing places facilities

• Matlock Farm Park

• The Deep

• Sheffield Parent Carer Forum – advice on physical activity and short break information
• Sheffield Sling Surgery

Playgrounds with disability equipment in Sheffield

• Millhouses Park, Abbeydale Road South, Sheffield, S7 2QQ
  Disabled parking within the car park. Playground equipment includes high back mirage swings seats, wheelchair roundabout, wheelchair friendly paths and a disability toilet facility (no hoist), café. There is a lake with pedalos on it and staff are happy to help transfer individuals onto them, however there is not the facility to have wheelchairs or pushchairs on them.
• Hillsborough Park, Parkside Road, Sheffield, S6 2AB
  Changing places facility, café, wheelchair accessible tarmacked paths, disabled parking within the carpark,
• Graves Park, Hemsworth Road, Sheffield, S8 8LL
  Disabled parking, wheelchair accessible tarmacked paths, café, disabled toilet (but no hoist), animal park, basket swing
• Rivelin Valley Park, 70 Rivelin Park Road, Sheffield, S6 5GE
  Water park area (open in the summer) which is wheelchair accessible, changing places facility (key obtained from the café), small playground area. Paths around the water park are tarmacked however further away are a rougher terrain.

Physical care

• CPIP hip surveillance
• Postural care

Everyday advice

• Toilet training children with special needs
• Pacing
• Safer sleep for babies
• Change and transition top tips

General advice

• Child development and neurodisability resources
• Physiotherapy charity and grant information
• Baby walkers
• Choosing right footwear
• Bone Health
• The DCD team Find Developmental Coordination Disorder team help sheets and top tips to help with ball skills, bike riding, brushing teeth, getting dressed, handwriting, using cutlery, using scissors, ideas for handwriting.

• Newlife therapy playpods (toy loan scheme)
• Incontinence swimwear
• Purchasing larger nappies for children
• Car seat information
• Guide for wearing splints
• Buying shoes for orthoses
• Equipment and adaptations team – Depending on your needs, changes may be able to be made to your home.
• Wheelchair services for pushchair or wheelchair referrals
• Rosscare- for any wheelchair or pushchair repairs on 0114 2421257
• Sleep systems
• Standing Frames

Adaptive clothing

• Marks and Spencer
• Asda
• Fledglings
• Remap can help to design and custom-make equipment to help people with disability live more independently.

• Positioning advice to help support your child’s development
• Exercises to help on lying to sitting
• Leaflet for parents of children who have a head preference and plagiocephaly (flattening of the head).
• Positional plagiocephaly
• Leaflet for parents of children who bottom shuffle.

Torticollis neck stretches

• Neck stretching for the left SCM
• Neck stretching for the right SCM muscle

Feet stretches for children with positional talipes

• Positional talipes 
• Calf control exercises
• Supporting pre term and sick infants from birth – Ei SMART

For babies showing risk of asymmetry

• Newcastle University Research ETIPS page for left sided weakness
• Newcastle University Research ETIPS page for right sided weakness
• Hemiplegia games

• Making sense of your senses

• Arthrogryposis
• Autism support on behaviour, sleep, sensory, wellbeing, communication, eating, toileting , coping with change
• Cerebral palsy – Scope
• Contact – a UK charity for families with disabled children
• Developmental coordination disorder and motor skills
• Erb’s palsy
• ERIC (children’s bladder and bowel health)
• Flat feet
• Hypermobility and hypermobility spectrum disorder
• In-toeing gait
• Mencap        
• Muscular Dystrophy Association 
• Scoliosis
• Torticollis
• Unique – understanding rare chromosome and genetics

• Bladder and bowel UK
• Cerebra – a charity for children with neurological problems, including a guide for parents.
• Hemihelp – a charity that provides information, support and guidance to people with hemiplegia and their families
• Contact a Family – a charity that supports the families of disabled children
• Scope – aims to ensure that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else
  SENDIAS free and impartial advice to support children and young people 0 to 25 years
• Sheffield Advocacy Hub
• Sheffield Directory – directory of advice, support, groups, services, events and activities for adults, children and families in Sheffield
• Sheffield family hubs
• Sheffield Parent Carer Forum – an independent group of parents and carers of children and young people (0-25) with disabilities and special educational needs. Information and support on education, early years and childcare, health and wellbeing, legal advice, leisure, SEN transport, short breaks, support organisations, benefits, grants and discounts, transition to adulthood.
• Sheffield parenting hub events
• Unique – support and information for families of children with rare chromosome disorders