Health and Wellbeing
Anxiety: Helping Your Autistic Child to Help Themselves
Help your autistic child find their own ways to calm down when anxiety builds, at home and when you're out.
- 22 minutes
- 7 modules
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Spot the signs of anxiety in your autistic child and what sets it off
- Set up a quiet, safe space at home your child can retreat to
- Teach the 'soles of the feet' exercise so your child can calm themselves
- Put together a sensory box to take on days out
- Use social stories and photos to prepare your child for something new
About this course
A change of routine or a scratchy label can be enough to tip things over. Many autistic children feel anxiety more often and more intensely than their friends, and it isn't always obvious what set it off.
Jessica Parker helps you work out your own child's triggers, then gives you a handful of things to try at home. There's a safe space they can retreat to and a sensory box to take out with you. There's also the 'soles of the feet' exercise, where your child moves anxious feelings down and out through their feet. Practised often enough, it's something they can do on their own, anywhere.
Nobody needs every idea. The one or two that suit your child are plenty to start with.
7 modules
Open in order
- 1 min
Introduction
- 5 min
The meaning of anxiety
- 4 min
Identifying anxiety triggers in Autistic children
1 question
- 4 min
Helping Autistic people to help themselves
1 question
- 5 min
Relaxation Strategies for anxious children with Autism
- 4 min
Visual tools to help children to prepare for anxious situations
- 2 min
Wrap up