Parent Guidance

Playgrounds can offer joyful movement, exploration and connection. They can also combine fast-moving children, unpredictable noise, hot equipment, waiting and

Online games can offer fun, mastery, creativity and connection. They can also be hard to leave, especially when a child

Learning to swallow a tablet can be useful, but it should never become a battle. Taste, texture, fear of choking,

“What do you want?” can sound generous, yet an open question may require a child to search through many possibilities,

Moving house can bring excitement, uncertainty and a great deal of sensory change. For an autistic or ADHD child, familiar

Children can experience grief in many ways. An autistic or ADHD child may ask the same question repeatedly, appear focused

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

A shower can feel like many tasks happening at once: undressing, entering a wet space, coping with water pressure and

Elevators and escalators can combine movement, crowds, mechanical noise and precise timing. One child may avoid them because the motion