There’s nothing worse than getting a diagnosis for your child and being given suggestions…………..but finding that after this feedback, you don’t know how to really help your child post their autism diagnosis.

You get told your child should or could be attending therapy or intervention but nobody really takes the time to educate and explain to parents like yourself what that looks like, what the options are and how to make choices and decision when it comes to your child(ren), along with how to best support them as a parent.

We hear all about how you have to focus on the child and teen wellbeing and build positive mental health………..but not HOW to do it, especially when you are not a TYPICAL family.

One of the things that I hear every single day is the overwhelming number of acronyms that you as a parent need to try to decipher when it comes to what your child needs-From the diagnostic terms like ADOS, WISC’s and WPPSI’s, and to therapy terms such as ABA, DIR, ESDM and CBT and ACT, WTAF………….Ha ha, Just kidding on the last one, although many parents certainly feel that way!

You’re reading this probably because you have been told that your child needs some kind of therapy following their diagnosis. Interventions might range from learning how to do things for themelves; to share, to learn, to make friends, to manage emotions, regulate aggression, and how to socialise. There’s a lot to try to process. There are a lot of decisions that need to get made.

But how do you know what decisions to make?

How do you know what to do first?

How do you know that you’ve made the right decisions for your child?

Some common things I hear every day are that children and families are struggling with ‘simple’ things like being able to get kids dressed, to get them happily to school, to trickier things such as getting along with one another, through to the more complex issues around supporting your child with their social interactions, their communication, their emotions and how they can thrive.

There is a huge amount of updated data, research and evidence to support a range of different ways to help assist your children. It’s really ground breaking because for the last 25 years, we (as practitioners), have been relying on strategies that quite simply are just not for everyone-due to them not being sustainable, achievable nor needed for many families (for example recommendations about spending 20+ hours per week in therapy). Many of these therapies and strategies were (and may still be), about trying to make autistic children ‘less visibly autistic’ and primarily concerned with addressing ‘behaviours of concern’.

Current and autistic informed research, that I wholeheartedly support, is about helping your children embrace who they are and supporting them to thrive in the world the live in. Not enough is being talked about this perspective, nor about embracing the strengths families and individuals already possess.

THIS is why I have put this program together.

To help decipher this world of neurodiversity.

To help you come up with an appropriate plan to help your child, your family and yourself.

To help you navigate the endless range of therapy options, stretegies, tools and approaches.

Most of all I want to make this less stressful, I want to make this as painless as possible and make this journey as easy as possible for you to do all of this.

Current ideas for parenting and supporting neurodivergent children and teens.

Each month a different therapy, a strategy, a tool or approach, aligned to optimise child & teen wellbeing and positive mental health keeping the needs of autistic and other neurodivergent individuals in mind.