Playground Visits for Autistic and ADHD Children: Safety, Choice and Sensory Breaks
Playgrounds can offer joyful movement, exploration and connection. They can also combine fast-moving children, unpredictable noise, hot equipment, waiting and
Playgrounds can offer joyful movement, exploration and connection. They can also combine fast-moving children, unpredictable noise, hot equipment, waiting and
Learning to swallow a tablet can be useful, but it should never become a battle. Taste, texture, fear of choking,
Online games can offer fun, mastery, creativity and connection. They can also be hard to leave, especially when a child
“What do you want?” can sound generous, yet an open question may require a child to search through many possibilities,
Children can experience grief in many ways. An autistic or ADHD child may ask the same question repeatedly, appear focused
Moving house can bring excitement, uncertainty and a great deal of sensory change. For an autistic or ADHD child, familiar
A school assembly can combine echoing microphones, clapping, singing, crowded floor seating, bright lights, unfamiliar visitors and a change from
Using a spoon, fork and knife asks a child to coordinate posture, vision, both hands, pressure and timing while also
Cutting paper looks simple, but it requires two hands to do different jobs: one opens and closes the scissors while