Topic
Children with extra needs
Autism and other extra needs: meeting the person first, school support, and the parent who carries it.
Articles
- Before They Read the Report: Introduce Your Child as a PersonTeachers, therapists and carers often meet an autistic child through a report first. A one-page profile written with your child, so the people around them meet the person before the diagnosis.
- Preparing for a School Meeting About Your Child's SupportHow to get ready for a meeting with school about your child's needs: gather a few clear examples from home and school, ask three questions, and leave with names and dates. You don't need a pile of evidence to speak up.
- The Parent Who Carries It: For Parents of Children With Extra NeedsEveryone on your child's team has a job description and a day off. You have neither. Two questions to ask yourself each week, a list worth writing once, and what to hand to someone else.
- Siblings of a Child With Extra Needs: The Quiet SiblingOne child needs therapy, appointments, constant care. The other learns to wait. What the quiet sibling may be carrying, and how parents can make sure they are seen too.
- Speech Delay in Toddlers: When to Worry, and How to Help Your Child Talk at HomeYour toddler isn't talking yet, or says very few words. The official signs by age that mean see a professional, why hearing is checked first, and how a home full of talk helps a child learn to speak.
- Signs of Autism in an Older Child: What to Do When It Shows Up at 8, 10 or 12Your older child struggles to make friends, stays alone behind a closed door, or seems afraid of people. The official signs of autism in older children, why it is often noticed late, what to do first, and how to help him into the world.
- When Someone in the Family Has a Long Illness: Keeping the Home TogetherA child with a chronic illness, or a parent who is sick for a long time. How long illness changes the whole family, what to tell the children, the brothers and sisters nobody notices, and how the carer avoids burning out.
Other topics
- Anger, meltdowns and tantrums
- Brothers and sisters
- Limits: screens, money and the truth
- Bedtime, mornings and school
- Talking with teenagers
- Bullying at school
- The two of you
- After separation
- Grandparents and the wider family
- You, the parent
- Hard times and big changes
- How a home works
- Body safety and the internet