Children with additional needs

The Autism Service and Learning Disability Team currently provides advice via the telephone or email in regards to children with additional needs attending the hospital. The teams are unable to provide direct support but if advice is required please contact the Autism Service and Learning Disability Team

We invite you to make use of the resources available on this page and we are happy to be contacted if you require advice or to clarify anything related to the hospital including (but not limited to) reasonable adjustments, appointments, alerting on the hospital systems and transition into adult services.

Resources for children with additional needs

We recommend that you fill in the paediatric hospital passport and the reasonable adjustment requests form for your child. If your child doesn't want to use the paediatric hospital passport, you can use the adult Autism Hospital Passport: Adult Hospital passport for Autistic patients.pdf [pdf] 370KB

Once completed, please bring them with you to any visits to the hospital. The information in the documents will aid staff to put reasonable adjustments in place to help improve your childs hospital experience. We are unable to guarantee that all requests will be met but appropriate consideration will be made.

Download the Child Hospital Passport and reasonable adjustment request form as a PDF or Word document.

Do you think your child could be Autistic?

If you think your child might be Autistic, you can try the AQ10 Autism childrens self assessment test

We would then recommend to make an appointment to see a GP, offer them the results from the AQ10, if you have done it, (if you have not done the AQ10 then the GP should go through the questions with you/your child), and ask them for a referral for the diagnostic pathway.