Everyday Tips

Help strengthen the relationship between you and your child, including their ability to self-regulate with these basic strategies that will help you and your child improve communication about anger and frustration. These strategies will support channeling undesired behavior into more constructive ways to communicate anger and frustration.

Megan Fennelly, a member of the Children’s Specialized Hospital – and mother of an autistic child — shares that it’s important to see life with autism is different, not less. Sorting through the maze of services and attending to your child’s needs can be daunting. In this video, Megan encourages finding support for self-care, acknowledging the job you’re doing as a parent, asking for help, and creating family time in the community by adjusting expectations.

Help your child to better anticipate routines – and changes to routines –by creating daily visual schedules. A visual schedule will help increase your child’s ability to anticipate what to expect, to better manage changing plans, and to provide the structure to help decrease anxiety, tantrums, and meltdowns when changes do occur.

In this video, Courtney Peters from Into the Spectrum presents a tool sheet which gives ideas for activities which are useful for calming a child with autism down when they are experiencing a meltdown, or if they are just feeling frustrated.

In this episode of Into the Spectrum, Courtney Peters and Phil Schlemer talk about the importance of playing with your child and the benefits play can provide to kids with autism.

In this video presented by Family Compass Group, Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) Billie Harber discusses strategies for parents of young children with autism to have successful outings in the community, which can often be a struggle.

In this video, Into the Spectrum’s Courtney Peters discusses four strategies parents can use while playing with their autistic children to develop a closer relationship.

In this video presented by Family Compass Group, Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) Billie Harber discusses strategies parents can use with their autistic children to develop a bedtime routine.

In this video, strategies for parents who are about to send their autistic child to school are discussed. …

In this video, Alisa from Creating Connections Australia explains the importance of maintaining good hygiene and helping autistic …

“Choose your battles” is something this autism mom and dad duo learned the hard way. They tried “everything” …

In this video, Stephanie from Our LANDing Crew discusses Halloween for autistic children, because it can be a …

In this video, the use of ABA (Applied Behavioral Analysis) to address delayed use of toilets in children …

In this video from Our LANDing Crew, Stephanie gives parents of autistic toddlers and children tips for potty …

In this video, Stephanie from Our LANDing Crew discusses some tips for parents and caretakers on travelling with …

In this video, Katherine from Guiding Autism discusses some strategies she uses when travelling with her daughter Samara …

In this video, FatheringAutism explains his decision to get his nonverbal daughter Abbie her first haircut since she …

In this video, Kevin Chapman discusses travelling several times in the past years with his son, Andy, for …

In this video, developmental pediatrician Dr. Yvette Janvier discusses the sometimes-difficult and always-important task of explaining a child’s …

Every parent knows the struggle of getting little ones to bed on time! There’s always one more book, …