Autism resources

Preparing for Difficult Conversations

August 31, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
Help teens prepare for challenging conversations with teachers, parents, coaches, employers, friends, and other important people in their lives. This handout and activity guide teens through a structured planning process that supports self-advocacy, perspective-taking, and clear communication before discussing a difficult topic.
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Friendship Check-In: Listening to Yourself and Noticing Patterns

August 31, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
Help middle school and teen clients reflect on their friendships through a neurodiversity-affirming lens that emphasizes self-awareness, patterns, and relationship balance rather than rigid social rules. This resource guides discussions about how relationships feel, how effort is shared over time, and how to recognize personal needs and boundaries in friendships.
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Hanging Out With Me

July 31, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
Help children and families create a practical, strengths-based guide that explains a child’s communication style, sensory preferences, routines, and support needs in everyday language. This resource can support collaborative conversations with babysitters, relatives, teachers, coaches, and other adults while reducing reliance on diagnostic jargon or behavior-focused descriptions.
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Autistic Allies: Simple Ways Adults Can Support Autistic Kids

July 31, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
Use this handout to support conversations with parents, caregivers, teachers, and community members about practical ways to create safer, more respectful, and more supportive environments for autistic kids. This resource provides concrete neurodiversity-affirming strategies that encourage connection autonomy, communication access, and reduced pressure across home school and community settings.
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Big Feelings in My Body

July 31, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
Use this resource to help school-age children explore how shame and anxiety can show up in the body through sensory awareness, emotional language, and self-reflection. Use the visuals and discussion prompts to support interoception, emotional regulation, self-advocacy, and conversations about strategies that help children feel safer and more supported.
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Stimming is Self-Regulation

May 31, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
This resource provides therapists with a neurodiversity-affirming framework to help caregivers and educators shift from viewing stimming as a behavior to manage to a vital tool for sensory regulation. It serves as an essential psychoeducational handout to validate a client’s natural coping mechanisms while fostering more supportive, inclusive environments in schools and homes.
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The Hidden Tax: Understanding Masking and Burnout

April 30, 2026 by Kimi Mitchell.
Help clients understand masking and the hidden effort it takes to navigate social expectations after brain injury, ADHD, autism, or anxiety. This handout explains the concept in simple language and introduces practical ways clients can reduce cognitive load and recover from masking burnout.
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What My Brain Is Trying to Do

February 27, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This handout helps kids build insight by framing behaviors as adaptive brain strategies rather than problems to fix. Use it to guide compassionate conversations, support self-awareness, and strengthen collaboration between kids and the adults in their lives.
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Collaborative Behavior Supports

February 27, 2026 by Megan Berg.
This resource reframes challenging behaviors as clues to unmet needs, lagging skills, and environmental mismatches, helping teams move beyond compliance-based approaches. The table format provides a practical way to collaborate with families and schools, identify what’s happening under the surface, and choose supportive strategies that honor each child’s autonomy and nervous system.
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