Behaviour & Support
Understand behaviour as communication. Compassionate, practical guidance on meltdowns, shutdowns, anxiety and emotional regulation.
Parents & carers
Meltdowns
What a meltdown is, why it happens, and how to support — not punish — through one.
Shutdowns
Recognising shutdowns and offering quiet, low-demand support.
Anxiety
Why anxiety is so common alongside autism and what helps reduce it.
Emotional regulation
Tools and language to help children and adults notice, name and ride out big feelings.
Challenging behaviour
Looking beneath the behaviour to the unmet need driving it.
Coping strategies
A toolkit of in-the-moment and longer-term coping skills.
Understanding triggers
How to spot patterns and reduce sensory, social and demand-based triggers.
Positive support approaches
Evidence-based, low-arousal and strengths-first approaches.
Social Stories
What Social Stories are, how to write one, and how UK families and schools use them to prepare children for new or tricky situations.
