Most of what limits participation is the room, not the child.
Physical and medical care belongs with your consultant and therapy team. What is usually missing is anyone owning the ordinary questions — whether your child can get to the lesson, use the materials, be understood by a supply teacher, and take part in what happens between lessons.
We do not provide physiotherapy, orthotics or medical management, and we will not second-guess the team who do. We coordinate around them and we report what we see in school and at home.
Where this sits in the five stages
You may recognise some of this.
None of these is a diagnosis and none of them means something is wrong. They are the patterns that tend to be described on the first call.
- Excellent medical care and no plan for the school day
- Access arrangements that work in theory and fail on a wet Tuesday
- Communication that is slower than the classroom's pace, so your child stops being asked
- Support staff who help so quickly that independence never gets practised
- Every professional holding one piece and nobody holding the join
Cerebral palsy, through the five stages.
The pathway is the same for every child. What changes is what each stage contains.
Understand
A functional needs assessment across home and school.
Plan
One page everyone works from.
Transfer
Into the classroom.
Step Back
Support reduces on purpose.
What we do
- Map the school day for access, fatigue and participation, not only for safety
- Set goals about doing things independently, including slowly
- Train staff to wait, and to help less rather than faster
- Coordinate the plan around the medical team's targets, in writing
- Reduce adult proximity as a measured milestone
What we don't do
- Provide or advise on physiotherapy, orthotics or medical care
- Recommend an assistant whose role is undefined
- Confuse being helped efficiently with taking part
- Duplicate assessments your clinical team has already done
If any of these is what you are looking for, we are the wrong provider and we would rather say so now than three months in.
Straight answers.
Do you provide physiotherapy?
No. Physical and medical care stays with your consultant and therapy team, and we will not duplicate or contradict them. Our work is participation, learning and the school day, planned around what they are doing.
Our school says it cannot meet my child's access needs.
Sometimes that is true and sometimes it is a resourcing conversation nobody has framed properly. Our assessment describes what would actually be required in concrete terms, which is usually what a school needs in order to say yes or an honest no.
Will an assistant make my child more dependent?
It can, and it often does. That is exactly why the LSA role is written with fading built in, supervised by the clinician who set the goals, and reviewed on whether adult proximity is coming down.
Other profiles we support.
Autism
Support built around how your child already communicates, not around making them appear typical.
Who we supportADHD
Support that changes the demands around a child, not just the child's effort level.
Who we supportLearning differences and dyslexia
Structured teaching for the specific skill that is missing, and a plan to stop.
Tell us what you've noticed.
Twenty minutes on the phone with someone who does this every day. No assessment, no cost, and no obligation to become a client at the end of it.
If we're not the right people, we'll tell you who is. That includes naming providers we don't own, and it costs you nothing either way.