Galway City West Children’s Disability Network Team 5
Provides services to children aged from birth to 18 years with complex needs who live in the areas of Castlegar, Knocknacarra, Salthill, Shantalla or City Centre.
Enable Ireland is the lead agency for Children's Disability Network Team 5 in Galway City West. This means that Enable Ireland is responsible for the running of the Children’s Disability Network Team. The CDNT’s have been set up as part of the National Progressing Disability Services (PDS) Programme.
The ‘Progressing Disability Services for Children and Young People’ Programme aims to provide one clear path to services for each child and family with complex needs within their local area. These three CDNT’s provide supports and services for children/young people and their families from birth to 18 years with complex disabilities.
A specialist Enable Ireland team working in Galway, Mayo & Roscommon with children and adults with a disability.
The following resources have been recommended by the CDNT:
- Sexuality and Relationship Education for Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Professional's Guide to Understanding, Preventing ... and Responding to Inappropriate Behaviours by Davida Hartman Available on Amazon
- The Growing Up Guide for Girls: What Girls on the Autism Spectrum Need to Know! By Davida Hartman Available on Amazon
- The Growing Up Book for Boys: What Boys on the Autism Spectrum Need to Know! by Davida Hartman Available on Amazon
FAQs
Children aged from birth to 18 years may be referred for services.
If you have a concern about a child’s development, ‘Children’s Services Referral Form’ can be completed by parents/legal guardians, health and social care professionals, GPs, education professionals, assessment of need officers or case managers. The completed forms can be sent to their local Children’s Disability Network Team. It is essential that signed parental consent is recorded on the referral form.
A referral can be made by a healthcare professional. Or you can make the referral yourself.
To do this:
- Complete the Children’s Services Referral Form (PDF, 106 KB, 11 pages)
- Complete an Additional Information Form for your child
The Additional Information Form lets you describe your child and what your concerns are. It will help to refer them to the right service for them.
Complete the Additional Information Form for children aged:
Services are delivered through an Interdisciplinary Team. This is a group of different health professionals that work together and in partnership with the child and their family. The child and family are key members of this team. Depending on a child’s need, members of the child’s team may include physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, psychology and social work. There are other disciplines on the team that can be accessed if a need is identified.
The team will provide supports for the child across a variety of settings including the home, education settings such as pre-school or school, community settings or within the CDNT centre.
The CDNT’s operate through a Family-Centred Practice model. This is an approach that focuses on the whole family and not just the child requiring support. It ensures that the family's priorities are considered when settling goals with the family.
All families that have a child attending the CDNT will have a keyworker. The keyworker will be named contact and act as a link between the family and the team. They will support families with any queries they may have about their service.
All families attending the CDNT will have an Individual Family Support Plan (IFSP). This is an agreed plan that identifies the child and family’s goals and priorities. The IFSP will also describe supports needed to achieve these goals. The IFSP looks at and documents the child’s strengths and achievements since the last plan was completed. As children grow and develop the goals on their IFSP will change with them.
Children aged from birth to 18 years with complex needs who live in the areas of Castlegar, Knocknacarra, Salthill, Shantalla or City Centre.
Galway City West Children’s Disability Network Team 5
Seamus Quirke Road,
Galway,
H91 E8P4
