NewsNorth East NewsSunderlandTwo parents have created the app designed to help others08:16, 12 Jul 2026This article contains affiliate links, we will receive a commission on any sales we generate from it. Learn moreSunderland mum's new app to 'empower' SEND parents like herTwo Sunderland parents have created an app designed to help others navigate the SEND system. The app - Understanding My Child - is the brainchild of Nicola Leonard.Nicola, 41, is mum to an eight-year-old with autism and a six-year-old with ADHD. She told ChronicleLive how her own experiences - and working to help others in the same situation - had inspired her to create an app which helps parents to work out and record the evidence needed to best express the impact of their child's neurodiversity when in formal meetings