Topics
Start with the part of family life you are dealing with. Each topic brings together the most relevant Library articles, shorter Blog posts and practical tools.
Understand
Make sense of behaviour, development and overlapping needs.
Understanding ADHD
A reliable foundation for understanding ADHD in children and young people, without reducing it to hyperactivity or poor concentration.
10 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Understanding autism
Understand how autism can shape communication, sensory experience, predictability, interests and everyday life, including presentations that common stereotypes miss.
10 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
AuDHD, co-occurring needs and complex profiles
Understand why a child's needs may not fit one neat label, how different difficulties can overlap and what information may help an assessment.
9 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Behaviour as communication
Help with working out what happened before a difficult moment, what may have contributed and what to try next.
10 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Emotional regulation, meltdowns and shutdowns
Help with spotting rising distress, reducing pressure and supporting recovery after a meltdown or shutdown.
12 Library articles · 5 Blog posts
Sensory processing, interoception and body signals
How sound, light, touch, movement and internal body signals can affect comfort and participation, with practical changes matched to the situation.
10 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Identity, masking, strengths and self-esteem
Help a child understand themselves without shame or false positivity, while leaving room for strengths, privacy and an identity bigger than any diagnosis.
8 Library articles · 4 Blog posts
Stabilise
Reduce pressure and make daily life more manageable.
Executive function, motivation and the external brain
Practical help with remembering, starting, planning and judging time, using systems that reduce how much the family has to hold in mind.
12 Library articles · 4 Blog posts
Routines, transitions and everyday independence
Practical ways to make mornings, changes of activity, bedtime and growing independence easier to manage without turning family life into a rigid timetable.
11 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Sleep, rest and recovery
Understand what may be disrupting sleep, make changes that fit your child's needs and recognise when to ask for a sleep or medical assessment.
9 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Eating, toileting, hygiene and physical wellbeing
Explore the sensory, physical and emotional pressures behind eating, toileting, hygiene and pain, with practical help for everyday care.
11 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Boundaries, demand avoidance and cooperation
Set limits around safety and shared life while making room for autonomy, accessible communication and the reasons cooperation may be difficult.
10 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Screens, gaming and digital life
Help your child use screens in a way that leaves room for sleep, family life, school and the things they value.
8 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Connect
Strengthen relationships without shame or blame.
Communication, friendships and social belonging
Help with understanding one another, finding accessible ways to communicate and building the kinds of friendship and belonging a child genuinely wants.
10 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Siblings and whole-family relationships
Practical help when attention, rules, space and caring responsibilities affect more than one child in the family.
8 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Parent wellbeing and neurodivergent parenting
Look after your own capacity while navigating burnout, guilt, repair and the particular demands of parenting when you are neurodivergent too.
9 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Co-parenting, grandparents and wider family
Clearer handovers, specific requests and practical plans for the adults who care for a child in different homes and settings.
7 Library articles · 2 Blog posts
Puberty, teenagers and growing independence
Support a teenager through body changes, privacy, consent, relationships and everyday skills, adjusting your role as their experience and independence grow.
11 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Advocate
Prepare for clear conversations with education, healthcare, services and community organisations.
School, SEN support and reasonable adjustments
Understand what school sees, record what your child needs and turn concerns into support or adjustments that can be carried out and reviewed.
14 Library articles · 4 Blog posts
Attendance, school avoidance, exclusions and education transitions
Help with repeated lateness or absence, difficult school mornings, suspensions and permanent exclusion, and moves between schools or phases.
10 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
Assessment, diagnosis and what happens next
Clear information for deciding what an assessment might help with, preparing without rehearsing answers and using the report afterwards.
10 Library articles · 3 Blog posts
GP, NHS, CAMHS, therapy and medication
Prepare for healthcare conversations and understand the different roles of GPs, NHS services, CAMHS, therapists and prescribers.
3 Blog posts
Community life, travel, clubs and practical inclusion
Plan days out, journeys, appointments, clubs and family events around the access needs that help your child take part.
8 Library articles · 2 Blog posts
Preparing for adulthood, college and adult services
Plan alongside a young person for education, work, healthcare, money and daily life, building the independence that matters to them without treating it as all or nothing.
9 Library articles · 2 Blog posts