Halloween can be a challenge for autistic children, but with careful planning, you can make it an enjoyable experience. Learn how to create a sensory-friendly Halloween with comfortable costumes, sensory considerations, and practice trick-or-treating to ensure a successful and fun holiday for your child. ...

World Kindness Day is an international observance celebrated on November 13th. The World Kindness Movement describes the purpose of this day being “to highlight good deeds in the community focusing on the positive power and the common thread of kindness which binds us.” ...

Shopping with children in tow can typically be tough on a parent who has clear objectives in mind. For a parent of a child with autism, a common shopping trip can trigger meltdowns that will feed long-term disincentives to master what can be a weekly occurrence for a family. So you may want to use some tips and tricks to make such regular activity more productive and tolerable for all. ...

Starting school for the first time or after a break can be a very difficult transition for a child with autism. The added emotional distress ...

Making sure your child can rely on a strong, healthy social network is every parent’s hope. But for a parent of a child with Autism ...

While keeping an open mind and being flexible in your thinking is a lesson all children need to learn to adapt to their ever-changing ...

Emotion Dysregulation is the inability to know how to innately manage the intensity and duration of negative emotions like fear ...