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Hello and welcome to our new look website, we hope you like the new features. We have, of course kept most of the old ones. It is often said that "a change is as good as a rest". Well I don't know if that old saying applies to Jack's website though.<br>
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Yes we have made changes but not to gain rest, it's more the need to move forward and not to rest on what has been done and achieved before in the name of Honeylands...Read More

Honeylands Children's Centre is part of the specialist service for children provided by the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS trust. They provide assessment and treatment services for children referred because of developmental difficulties.

Having a child with developmental difficulties is a source of great concern to parents. Honeylands aim to offer parents and family as much support as they can and the child the help that is needed. Read More

A sub committee of the Honeylands League of Friends runs the Toy Library, who employ a Toy Librarian to assist members.

The Toy Library is located in a portacabin at the rear of Honeylands Children's Centre.

Many of the toys are specially designed to help a child learn a particular skill. Other are toys that you would find in the High Street stores. Thre library stock everything from musical instruments, puzzles, games, books, videotapes, imaginative and contructive toys as well as lots for babies. Read More

A number of conditions can give rise to hydrocephalus. Uncommonly it can be due to a genetic disorder, in which case some other members of the family are usually affected. Non-genetic causes are more common. In babies who are born with hydrocephalus the condition is said to be congenital, and it must be realised that this means simply that it is present at birth, and not that it is hereditary. In congenital hydrocephalus the actual cause is usually impossible to determine but it is assumed to...Read More

The term 'hydrocephalus' is from two Greek words meaning 'water in the head'. In fact, the 'water' is cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), a clear liquid which is produced all the time in the cavities or ventricles inside the brain. It passes from one ventricle to the next (four in all) through narrow pathways, then circulates around the surface of the brain - a little also goes down the spinal cord - and is absorbed back into the bloodstream. The absorption takes place through specialized veins inside...Read More