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Latest top tips
a few bright ideas you've been sending us

  • Explore alternatives

    Try replacing repetitive behaviour with another activity that has the same function. For eg if your child flicks their fingers for visual stimulation, try giving them a kaleidoscope or a bubble gun.


  • Encouraging learning

    When my son was little he didn't show any interest in toys, and I had to help him develop a curiosity for learning. I'd pick up an object, like a leaf or a pebble and turn it around in my hands talking about it, encouraging him to look at it and feel it. Children with learning disabilities do learn, but they need to be guided.


  • Try a variety of brushes

    If someone doesn't like having their hair brushed, it could just be the brush you're using. Try a variety of different brushes to find one they like the feel of.


  • Social stories

    My son is obsessed with dinosaurs so I've written a social story about meeting a polite dinosaur, and I've built into the story the behaviours I want him to stop in public. Has worked a treat! Trying a story about over eating next.

  • Keep it together

    We have got a plastic over-door shoe holder for keeping syringes, flexitainers, giving sets etc in. It doesn't take up any room, and it's see-through so everything is easy to find.


  • Take a step back

    I have real problems with my daughter at hospital appointments or the dentist, doctor etc. I find if I take a step back she seems to respond better to the gentle encouragement of the nurses without me being around.


  • Spare pads

    Encourage girls who have hit puberty to keep spare pads and knickers in their bag, and inform all carers that spares are always in the bag. Always useful for emergencies. Accidents can be very demoralising.


  • Coping strategy

    Last night I went to the theatre with my teenage daughter, who has ASD. She loves live singing & dancing but hates crowds. During the interval we found a table in the bar & I noticed she chose to sit facing the wall with her back to everyone. She'd found her own way of 'minimising' sensory input.


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