Day
Service

• What We Do
• How We Help
• How To Refer
• Meet The Team
• Personal Stories

What We Do

Communication and Interpersonal skills

The understanding of brain injury and its effect on self, family, social and working life, to facilitate individual adjustment and to promote community integration.

• Improves awareness of self and how others see you
• Improves awareness of others
• Provides anger management
• Improves communication skills and body language
• Improves self esteem 
• Helps with adjustment and acceptance
• Improves planning and organisational skills
• Improves the processing of information

Art Therapy

Addressing emotions and feeling using art as a medium

• Improves communication
• Improves self awareness
• Improves emotional and mental health

Adult Education

Re-learning lost skills

• Improves reading skills
• Improves writing skills
• Improves numeracy skills
• Improves concentration
• Improves perception and spatial awareness

IT

Re-learning lost computer skills and learning new skills

• Individual programmes tailored to the meet clients needs.
• Training in Microsoft Office
• Training on the internet and emailing
• Improving research skills and creativity opportunities through IT
• Improving word recognition
• Improving numeracy
• Improving dexterity and hand-eye co-ordination
• Training in voice recognition software for those find writing/typing difficult for visual or other physical reasons.

Cookery

Improving knowledge, skills and independence through cooking

• Supporting and working towards independent living
• Education on nutrition and healthy eating
• Learning how to follow instructions
• Improving planning skills
• Improving fine motor skills eg chopping and stirring
• Improving numeracy skills (quantities in recipes and weighing)
• Improving attention
• Improving time management

Quiz’s and Games

A fun activity to help improve many cognitive skills

• Improves memory
• Improves attention
• Supports team work
• Improves decision making skills
• Improves interpersonal, interaction and communication skills

Body Challenge

A specialist Neuro Gym Programme improving physical strength and stamina following brain injury

• Improves fitness, muscle strength, mobility and flexibility
• Improves balance and core stability
• Improves mental health and decreases stress levels
• Improves sequential tasking and following instructions

Trampolining Therapy

An enjoyable physical workout for all abilities

• Improves balance, flexibility, co-ordination and fitness
• Improves social skills and turn taking
• Improves attention levels
• Improves sequential tasking and following instructions
• Provides a social activity to reduce isolation

Bowling

A fun social and physical activity

• Provides a social activity to reduce isolation
• Improves co-ordination, balance and turn-taking
• Improves communication skills
• Improves numeracy

Wii

A fun and social activity which increases physical strength and co-ordination

• Improves, balance, strength, co-ordination and fitness
• Provides a social activity

Gardening

A physical, social and creative activity

• Improves planning skills and creativity
• Improves physical wellbeing, bending, stretching, reaching and flexibility
• Improves mental health
• Provides a social activity
• Improves perseverance and patience

Trips out

A variety of visits to places of interest to reduce social isolation

• Improves social interaction with the public
• Improves awareness of an individual’s social etiquette
• Improves money handling
• Encourages a sense of ‘normality’ (life outside Headway)
• Improves decision making