General Resources

State-wide and nation-wide resources for supporting twice-exceptional students.

Tips for promoting positive behavior in the home setting.

State-wide and nation-wide resources for autistic girls, women, and their family members.

Strategies, tools, and activities for supporting the sensory needs of autistic and neurodiverse individuals

Evidence-based teaching strategies for supporting neurodiverse students ages 3-6 in the classroom setting.

Tip sheets for supporting early language skills in children ages birth - six. Early language skills include eye contact, joint attention, and turn taking.

A book list reviewed and recommended by autistic members. Brought to you by Meghan Ashburn with "Not an Autism Mom".

This includes downloadable comic strips to help people to better understand the experience of autism. It's available in English, French, Spanish, German, Greek, and Indonesian.

This is a guide for teachers supporting students with autism K-12 and includes downloadable resources.

Tools for communication, regulation, and more!

Here you can learn with our eLearning format about sensory processing. These tools may help you in a variety of roles whether you are a provider, parent, or self-advocate.

Free guides for wandering prevention. There are specific guides for parents/caregivers, teachers, and first responders. Check out these tools and share with people you know to prevent wandering and getting lost.

A free safety guide for parents to help them address the needs that arise from narrow interests, limited situational awareness, and sensory/communication needs.

Resources and tools about safety and autism related to Abuse and Neglect, Bullying, Interactions with police, Mental Health, and Safely Navigating the Community.

Useful information about diagnosis of autism in adults.

This includes a free downloadable kit of information about various supports and services including therapy for families of newly diagnosed children with autism.

Resources to help children learn and better understand about autism using the classic Sesame Street format and characters.

Training and resources on the Americans with Disabilities Act. Their mission is to make sure the citizens in their region (Including Alaska) understand the spirit/intent and the guidelines of the law within ADA.

A downloadable employment guide for Alaskans with disabilities. Brought to you by the Alaskan Department of Health.

A self-advocate's guide to employment rules and policy. This site provides tools to help you achieve a fulfilling job.

Information about autism in girls from a small charity working to educate, support, and bring change.

Information about the "internalized" female presentation of autism in women and girls.

SPARK offers resources on current research and information on autistic adults.

Reframing Autism Welcome Packet

You do not need a formal autism diagnosis to access AANE’s support, services, or community. You are the expert on your own experience.

This kit helps you learn how to access services, advocate for your child, and connects you to a positive community of families, like yours, for support.

Free resources, information, and online support groups for LGBTQ+ identifying autistics.

Resources from Autism Speaks for LGBTQ+ identifying autistics and their allies.

Access free information and resources to help autistic children, teenagers, and adults thrive in community settings.

This online parenting course helps parents of kids who need support in social-emotional learning and executive functioning.

Free social and emotional support strategies, information, and teaching tools to use at home and in school.

Kidmunicate social stories help autistic children to prepare for new or difficult social situations. Social/picture stories help prepare children for new experiences or help correct behavioral issues.

Autism Speaks has compiled social skills tips and information from experts, teachers, and families, along with useful tools to help enhance opportunities to be part of the community.

Learn more about the purpose of a sensory room and how to design a sensory-friendly space in an academic, home, and/or community setting.

The Sensory Processing Disorder Parent Support group offers a shopping list for autistic individuals who may have sensory processing needs.

The Autism Safety Project provides families with tips, information, expert advice and resources so that everyone in our community can stay out of harm's way.

Hire Autism is a free program dedicated to helping individuals with autism find meaningful employment opportunities across the United States.

This guide for employer’s is intended to help start conversations about understanding, welcoming, training, and supporting young adults with autism in the workplace.

Access supports and resources to help autistic teenagers and adults plan for employment.

Paraprofessionals will learn online and with downloadable resources about the step-by-step process of planning for, using, and monitoring evidence-based practices with autistic students.

Resources focus on educating professors and teaching assistants on what it means to be a college student on the spectrum and how they can best help them to succeed.

Learn how to create a learning space to enhance the independence and success of autistic students in the classroom.

Learning center to help teachers learn more about autism. Access resources to better support autistic students in the classroom environment.

Online learning space specifically created for elementary and middle school students to help them to learn more about autism.

Peer education programs designed to teach K-8 students about their peers with autism.

Gain information about educational planning, the IEP process, and classroom placement.

Access advocacy tools, IEP guides, and information for increasing autism understanding and acceptance at your child’s school.

Autism Speaks provides the autism community with resources to meet each person and family's unique needs throughout every stage of life. Resources, information, tip sheets, and personal stories are organized by category.

The diagnosis of autism can be life-changing. It opens a phase of life that raises many questions. The Organization for Autism Research offers free information to families organized by topic.

Access information, resources, coaching, and online support groups for autistic females.

The AWN Network provides support and resources for parents and caregivers of autistic women, girls, and non-binary people.

The AWN provides resources for Autistic women, girls, nonbinary, trans people of all genders, Two Spirit people, and all others of marginalized genders.

Access resources, online support groups, and coaching services for autistic teens and adults.

The Organization for Autism Research offers resources to help autistic individuals navigate high school, college, and employment.

This guide walks you through next steps after receiving an autism diagnosis and includes information about your rights as an adult on the spectrum.

The kit helps families of children ages four and under make the best possible use of the 100 days following the diagnosis.

This assessment guide provides tools to help parents better understand the assessment process, as well as how to better improve services and outcomes for their children.

Gather more information about the autism screening process.

The Autism Society VEI aims to increase vaccine education, confidence, and access among individuals with autism and their families.

Learn about what autism is, the early red flags of autism in toddlers, and how autism is diagnosed.

Begin to understand autism! Learn more about common characteristics in autistic children and adults.

Access autism information, evidence-based resources, family support webinars, training, and coaching.

The CDC facilitates research on autism, provides current data, and develops resources that help identify children with autism as early as possible.

Free, online professional learning designed for those who support, instruct, work with, or live with someone who has autism.

Modules and downloadable resources are designed to help you learn how to plan, use, and monitor evidence-based practices with autistic learners from birth to age 22.