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In Our Own Words: Creating New Holiday Traditions

Adapting the season to fit your needs

In this online article, Dr. Anne Grego-Nagel, an adult with autism, shares tips on how to make the most of the holiday season, when facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Strategies shar...

Classifications: Family Life, Mental Health

Online Video

Coping with Behavior Challenges During COVID-19: Setting Realistic Expectations for Families

This ACT - Autism Community Training video helps parents whose children have limited language skills, making it difficult for them to understand why their usual routines have been ...

Classifications: ABA (Applied Behaviour Analysis), Family Life

Website

Life On The Spectrum - The Autism Family Podcast

A podcast created for families living with Autism. Hosted by broadcaster and special education assistant Katie Bennison, who has a teenage daughter on the spectrum. Featuring the v...

Classifications: Family Life, Education

Online Video

Multicultural Issues and Autism Spectrum Disorder

Autism 209

This online video discusses barriers and obstacles to accessing autism information, supports, and services which can be faced by families from diverse linguistic and cultural backg...

Classifications: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Family Life

Online Video

Parental Perspectives and Supporting Families

Yale Autism Seminar

This online video, part of the Yale Autism Program's undergraduate seminar on autism, provides a parental perspective of autism. It describes effects of autism on families, and di...

Classifications: Family Life, Evaluating Autism Information

Online Article

9 Safety Tips For Autism Parents

This article contains a list of nine suggestions that a parent can take to ensure the safety of their child on the autism spectrum. "Autism Speaks is an international advocacy o...

Classifications: Safety, Family Life

Online Video

I Can Fly with YVR Video Series

This series of online videos for children on the autism spectrum describes the steps of airplane travel. The Canucks Autism Network (CAN) offers recreational programs for people...

Classifications: Family Life

Online Article

I Can Fly with YVR

Airport Map

This document includes road maps showing the general arrangement of stops in the departures and arrivals sections of domestic and international airports. They are intended to be u...

Classifications: Family Life

Online Article

I Can Fly with YVR

Toolkit Tips

This short online guide provides advice for parents about traveling with children on the autism spectrum. It also describes the other online resources available through the I Can ...

Classifications: Family Life

Online Article

I Can Fly with YVR

A Step-by-Step Checklist

This online document provides a list of the steps involved in air travel. People on the autism spectrum can check off each step as it is completed. The Canucks Autism Network (...

Classifications: Family Life

Online Article

I Can Fly with YVR

A Step-by-Step Storybook

This online document is a storybook which describes the process of air travel for people on the autism spectrum. Steps can be checked off as they are completed. The Canucks Aut...

Classifications: Family Life

Online Article

Obsessions, Repetitive Behaviour and Routines

This online article describes how autistic people may have obsessions, repetitive behaviors, and routines, and it discusses how they may be an important source of enjoyment and a w...

Classifications: Family Life, Autism Spectrum Disorders

Online Article

Obsessions, Routines and Rituals

Autism Spectrum Disorder

This online article describes how special interests, obsessions, routines, and rituals can be important to and helpful for children with autism. It provides suggestions to help pa...

Classifications: Family Life, Autism Spectrum Disorders

Online Article

Changing Routines

Children and Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This online article describes how young people on the autism spectrum can find changes in routine stressful, and it offers suggestions which parents could use to help prepare child...

Classifications: Family Life

Online Article

Helping Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This online article discusses how parents can support siblings of children on the autism spectrum. It offers suggestions about explaining autism, showing warmth and attention towa...

Classifications: Family Life

Online Article

Family Stress and Autism Spectrum Disorder

This online article discusses how autism can lead to stress for the entire family, including parents and siblings, not just the child on the autism spectrum. It provides strategie...

Classifications: Family Life, Mental Health

Online Article

Shopping

This online article describes how shopping can be stressful for people on the autism spectrum, and it offers strategies to help address difficulties associated with shopping. Fo...

Classifications: Family Life, Sensory Issues

Online Article

Appointments

Children and Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This online article offers strategies which parents and caregivers can use to make appointments with professionals like doctors, dentists, and hairdressers less difficult. Raisi...

Classifications: Family Life, Health

Online Article

Building Confidence

Children and Teenagers with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This online article discusses how parents of young people on the autism spectrum can protect their children's self-esteem by drawing attention to their areas of strength. It provi...

Classifications: Mental Health, Family Life

Online Article

Managing Stress and Anxiety

A Guide for Parents and Carers of Children with Autism

This online article provides parents and caregivers of people on the autism spectrum with suggestions about managing their own stress. It discusses how parents can implement a fou...

Classifications: Mental Health, Family Life

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