
General Resources
Safetytest
Organization for Autism Research - A Guide to Safety
A free safety guide for parents to help them address the needs that arise from narrow interests, limited situational awareness, and sensory/communication needs.
Sensory
National Autism Resources: School Sensory Room Guide
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.
Sensory
Alaska Autism Resource Center (AARC) - Sensory Processing eModule
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.
Sensory
Sensory Parent Support: Amazon Shopping List
The Sensory Processing Disorder Parent Support group offers a shopping list for autistic individuals who may have sensory processing needs.
Social Skills
Autism Speaks: Social Skills
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.
Social Skills
Kidmunicate Social Stories
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.
Social Skills
Social Thinking: Home & School Supports
Free social and emotional support strategies, information, and teaching tools to use at home and in school.
Social Skills
Make Social & Emotional Learning Stick: Parent Training
This online parenting course helps parents of kids who need support in social-emotional learning and executive functioning.
Special Education Guides
Autism Society: Academic Success
Gain information about educational planning, the IEP process, and classroom placement.
Special Education Guides
Autism Speaks: Education and Autism Guides
Access advocacy tools, IEP guides, and information for increasing autism understanding and acceptance at your child’s school.
Understanding Autism
Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): ASD
The CDC facilitates research on autism, provides current data, and develops resources that help identify children with autism as early as possible.
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