How can you & your special needs child benefit from our service?
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As a Special Needs Life Coach, Gail will work with you and your child to ensure that they strive to reach their fullest potential, both physically and emotionally. Encouragement, resources and knowledge to lead happy fulfilling lives.
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Over the years Gail has often been surprised and thrilled to discover that encouragement and sometimes, tough love enables a child to do more than they or their parents ever thought possible!
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Prices & Appointments
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Sessions usually follow a FREE 15 min consultation with the parents coupled with an initial session to assess a rapport with children.
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Sessions are usually 1 hour long and parents are required to stay with their children during sessions, just observing their behaviours and watching and learning as their child grows. Appointments are flexible, especially during term time but I am unable to offer weekend appointments.
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Most sessions will be in our very comfortable environment on Mill Street in Nantwich, however, the centre is not wheelchair-user friendly at the moment, so in this case, I am happy to come to you in the local area (15-mile radius of Nantwich).
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Prices
1 session £60.00
5 Sessions £275.00
10 Sessions £495.00 (instalments can be arranged - please ask).
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Why are special needs life coaches needed?
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There are over 11 million people in the UK with a limiting long-term illness, impairment or disability. There are 800,000 disabled children under the age of 16 - that equates to one child in every 20.
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99.1 per cent of disabled children live at home and are supported by their families.
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The most commonly-reported impairments are those that affect mobility, lifting or carrying. There are approximately 1,800 children diagnosed with cerebral palsy every year and an estimated 30,000 children with cerebral palsy are registered in the UK (www.scope.org.uk/media/disability-facts-figures).
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Other reported impairments are social and behavioural (33%), learning disability (31%) and stamina, breathing and fatigue (31%).
Recent articles from the World Health Organisation and medical journals such as the International Journal of Therapy and Rehabilitation, all conclude that a substantive benefit and overall improvement in welfare is the result for parents and caregivers who receive coaching when looking after special needs children.
Whether it is cerebral palsy, autism, down's syndrome or any other developmental or physical disability, the lives of these families will be changed forever. Parents of children with disabilities have a greater incidence of divorce and their financial situation changes dramatically, due to both the cost of caring for their child and the fact that one parent will give up his or her career to serve as a caregiver. The relationship that parents have with their other children, and with their relatives and friends, becomes strained as the focus is shifted to the child who has the developmental/physical disability.