Summer Structure Without the Stress! Last summer, a 7-year-old with PDA - protective developmental anxiety, I worked with spent the first week in near-constant distress. Everything her parents asked her to do, she said No!   "Why don't we go to the park today? Response: No... "What about cycling ...

An 11-year-old boy I worked with began to unravel at the start of June because he was missing his routine. His day had become more unpredictable. Understandably, family life was a little more spontaneous than his autism class, and there were lots of things to juggle at home.  Lots of kids (and ad...

So last year, a mum I worked with described the last 3 weeks of the school year “like running a marathon while juggling school requests and Aladdin notification attacks.” Her 9 year old was refusing to go to school, and her teen was spiralling about approaching exams. Thankfully we made a plan, a...