Children’s Services and Adult
Learning Disability Services
Children’s Services and Adult
Self or personal care involves self-hygiene tasks such as bathing or showering, brushing our teeth, hair, and nail care. For children who have sensory processing difficulties, these tasks can present with huge sensory inputs that they may not be able to manage.
You may find some of our resources useful if your child is finding self care tasks difficult. There is a resource on bathing and showering, hair care, bottom wiping and toileting, dressing, nail cutting.
Our tactile or touch system doesn’t just refer to our hands but is also processed through our skin, which has many receptors all over our bodies for all different kinds of sensations.
When children are sensitive to touch, they may react negatively to touch input e.g. screaming, crying or hitting back. This is because the nervous system is interpreting the stimulus as potentially harmful or dangerous. In personal care tasks, touch may be through direct contact such as brushing teeth, but can also be the feeling of the fabric of clothing or the feeling of running water etc.
This service provides post-diagnostic support and on-going management for children and young people with ADHD and their families.
Our Children and Adolescent Mental Health Service supports children and young people aged up to 18 years, who are experiencing significant emotional or mental health difficulties.
The team completes Autism and ADHD assessments for children and young people who are below the age of 18 and have a GP in Hull or the East Riding of Yorkshire.
The Front Door Team is where referrals for Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity (ADHD) are sent and reviewed.
“Our Senses are the gateway to our world”
