Caregiver video tips: best practices for recording your child’s natural behavior English | Spanish
Resources and Training Materials for Clinicians
Talking to Families about an autism diagnosis: an 8 minute video featuring experienced clinicians discussing common questions families have about autism, including fears, concerns and how best to address them.
Autism Society: a national organization with local chapters that provides information and advocacy opportunities.
Autism Speaks: a national organization that provides information to people with autism and their families, clinicians and educators; scroll to Providers & Information for useful tools.
Autism Navigator: a web-based tool built to help families and professionals learn more about autism and next steps.
Social Stories: designed to explain social situations to autistic children and help them learn ways of behaving in these situations. From Boston Medical Center Autism Friendly Initiative – available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Korean.
Understood: includes resources on ADHD, dyslexia and anxiety.
Autism Speaks Guide to Individual Education Plan: advocacy tools for parents to make sure their child is receiving the best possible education tailored to their unique strengths and challenges. Includes a video series featuring a renowned attorney, school psychologist and speech pathologist answering frequently asked questions.
On-Time Autism Intervention Podcast: a podcast series for parents of children three and younger who are interested in information about autism, autism diagnosis, and autism intervention and resources for young children.
Skills training for families: a five-part package developed by WHO to support skills training for families of children with developmental delays or disabilities.