Helping You and Your Family

Helping You and Your Family is an easy-to-read 16-page information booklet for families of children with any type of disability or developmental delay.

With a focus on the needs of families in the early years, topics include: Diagnosis, Family and Friends, Siblings, Looking After Yourself, Your Support Network, and Working Together with professionals. A list of phone numbers and websites is also included at the back for easy reference.s

Copies of Helping You and Your Family are available FREE to families. Service providers and professionals can also order multiple copies free of charge to give to families.

Publication Order Form (77K PDF) (27K DOC)

• Helping You and Your Family booklet (452K PDF) (68K DOC)

• Contents (27K PDF) (27K DOC)
• 'Disability' (33K PDF) (25K DOC)
• Introduction (129K PDF) (25K DOC)
• Diagnosis (57K PDF) (26K DOC)
• Roller-coaster of emotions (46K PDF) (27K DOC)
• Family and friends (37K PDF) (26K DOC)
• Siblings (47K PDF) (27K DOC)
• Looking after yourself (44K PDF) (26K DOC)
• Your support network (189K PDF) (26K DOC)
• Role of services (45K PDF) (27K DOC)
• Working together (41K PDF) (26K DOC)
• The information maze (44K PDF) (26K DOC)
• Through the maze (43K PDF) (27K DOC)
• Parent support (189K PDF) (26K DOC)
• Parent advocacy (38K PDF) (26K DOC)
• Phone numbers (28K PDF) (27K DOC)
• Websites (33K PDF) (32K DOC)

Membership & NoticeBoard magazine
Membership to our Association is now FREE for families for the first 12 months. Members receive our NoticeBoard magazine which includes family stories, news and information about services and changes to government policy.