Hampshire charity gives advice ahead of GCSE results this morning
Thousands will be receiving their GCSE results today
A Hampshire charity has shared their advice ahead of students collecting their GCSE results this morning.
Thousands of students will be nervous heading into school to collect their results.
No Limits charity is sharing their advice to parents.
Elizabeth Lea (PRON: LEE), Head of Therapeutic Services at Southampton-based New Limits charity, said: "My main bit of advice for any kind of parent, carer, or anybody who's supporting a young person with their big day, is to just be available.
"Make space for them.
"What it means is meeting the young person where they are, and that might be saying let's go for a walk, or whilst watching TV.
"Particularly for our young neurodiverse people, eye contact is very difficult.
"Direct conversation is very difficult.
"So look at ways to have a conversation and not direct it.
"Our best tool as parents and teachers is to listen."
The charity also shared their advice to any young person who may be feeling nervous.
Ms Lea said: "Anxiety is an absolutely natural response to any kind of situation where we feel a little bit nervous, and we need to be okay with that.
"We need to be comfortable with being uncomfortable, and understand that actually, this is building our resilience in the long-run.
"It's really important to just go, this is a natural response, lean into it, understand it, acknowledge it and move through with it."
The charity support young people from the ages of five up until 26 and help with mental health, housing, finance, and homelessness.
They work across Hampshire, Portsmouth and Southampton.