Tough Furniture

Stokewood Road Craven Arms Business Park Shropshire

Special Residential/Day Schools and Special Units in Mainstream Schools for students with –

   * Severe and complex learning difficulties
   * Autistic Spectrum Disorders ( ASD )
   * Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ( ADHD )
   * Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties ( EBD )
   * Challenging behaviour
   * Learning difficulties

Daycentres and Residential Accommodation/Homes for

   * Adults with learning difficulties
   * Autistic Spectrum Disorders
   * Challenging behaviour

Autistic Provision in the Home

PICUs, Psychiatric and Mental Health Units and Hospital Wards

Secure Units and Young People's Accommodation

Bail Hostels

Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Units/Hostels

Residential High Dependency Units

Housing Trusts

Private Hospitals

Like so many parents caring for challenging autistic children at home Kate found that her son’s bedroom presented some real practical problems. He loved to bounce on his bed but no bed from any of the shops would last longer than a month, so he ended up on a mattress on the floor. Likewise conventional storage furniture didn’t survive very long either. The risks from broken furniture and the difficulty of endlessly having to replace it became so much that his toys and books lived on the floor, making the room very hard to keep clean and tidy, and his clothes had to be stored elsewhere. While Archie would happily sit the longest hour gazing out of the window, for Kate there was the constant worry of him falling through, quite apart from his penchant for posting the duvet out!

Tough Furniture’s first job, as always, was to do what it says on the packet and cope cheerfully with the hard wear and tear. The storage bed and wardrobe /cupboard/drawer unit fitted are still going strong, with all his clothes and possessions now safe in fully lockable storage, together with an I-pod player so now there can be music in a tidier room. More than this, Kate’s also found that as she can now get out different toys and books every night in rotation they are always fresh for her son and he’s taking a far greater interest, especially in the books