SCHOOLS & EDUCATION - FOR PARENTS & CAREGIVERS
Resources supporting neurodivergent students and f across learning, wellbeing and school-based support.
School Can't & Attendance
Australian organisation dedicated to increasing awareness of school can't through practical resources, lived experience perspectives and evidence-informed support for families, educators and professionals.
Australian resource explaining the differences between school refusal (school avoidance) and truancy, including why emotionally based school attendance difficulties require understanding and support rather than punishment.
Lived experience resources, advocacy and practical information supporting young people experiencing school attendance difficulties and the families navigating them.
School Refusal & Teenagers - ReachOut
Australian parent resource exploring school avoidance and school can't in teenagers, with practical advice, conversation guides and pathways to further support.
Explores why traditional attendance approaches often fail for PDA learners and provides practical strategies for supporting school engagement while reducing anxiety and demands.
Supporting Your Neurodivergent Learner
The Value of Strength-Based Parenting
Explores how recognising and nurturing a child's strengths can build resilience, confidence, wellbeing and engagement, helping parents move beyond a deficit-focused approach to supporting their child's development.
Parenting a Child with ADHD: A Somatic, Nervous System-Based Approach
Practical strategies helping parents understand regulation, co-regulation and the role of the nervous system in supporting children with ADHD (although alot is applicable to ASD) and AuDHD too), moving beyond behaviour management towards connection and emotional safety.
Learning & Thinking Differences
Parent-friendly resources exploring learning differences, classroom supports, executive functioning and practical strategies to help children succeed at school.
Helping Your Child Build Executive Function Skills
Explores practical ways parents can support executive functioning through routines, scaffolding and skill development at home and school.
Australian resource library providing practical information, downloadable guides and strategies to help families better understand PDA, reduce demands, support regulation and advocate for their child across home, school and the community.
Resources created by an American occupational therapist and neurodivergent parent, offering practical, neurodiversity-affirming strategies to support sensory processing, regulation, emotional wellbeing and everyday participation.
Practical activities and strategies supporting handwriting, fine motor skills, sensory needs, executive functioning and everyday school participation.
Working with Your Child's School
Australian evidence-based resources supporting positive partnerships between families, educators and schools to improve educational outcomes for autistic students.
Communicating with Your School
Practical guidance for building positive partnerships with your child's school, including effective communication, collaborative goal setting, sharing information and working together to support your child's learning and wellbeing.
Explores practical ways to build positive relationships with teachers, schools and other families, supporting collaborative communication and creating a strong support network around your child.
Association for Children Victorian resource offering practical advocacy tips, meeting preparation and guidance to help parents communicate effectively with schools, childcare services and the NDIS while understanding their child's rights.
Youth Disability Advocacy Service (YDAS)
Victorian advocacy organisation supporting disabled and neurodivergent young people (12–25 years) to understand their rights, build self-advocacy skills and access individual advocacy when facing barriers within education and other systems.
Being the Best Advocate for Your Autistic Child at School
Practical advice for advocating effectively within schools, including building collaborative relationships, understanding your child's strengths, communicating with teachers and working towards positive educational outcomes.