Back to School Resources
Back-to-school can bring a lot - for our kids and for us. These free resources are here to offer context, practical support, and support as you navigate the transition.
Download, watch, use what’s helpful, and share with another caregiver who might need it.
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With all the work parents of neurodivergent and disabled kids do every day to support and advocate for our kids, it can be easy to forget about…ourselves.
We get it. Truly.
In fact, we created Care Lab - with its opportunities for connection, support, and space to slow down - because we know how hard it can be to make time for ourselves when the demands on us feel nonstop.
But how we're doing matters, too. We deserve care and support, too.
Here are two tools (and a short capacity check-in video below!) to help you pause, notice how you're doing, and consider what you might need - without any pressure to feel or be anywhere other than where you are.
Caregiver Check In & Tips
Caregiver Permission Slip
Short Videos
Struggling to help your child navigate changes in routine?
Preparing for an IEP meeting or a new experience?
Being hard on yourself because you’re not feeling on your A-game?
We’ve been there, too.
We’re sharing three short clips from Care Lab workshops with practical ideas, fresh perspectives, and a little reassurance for the moments when you need it.
Want to explore more? You can watch the full workshops inside the Care Lab community!
Routines as Safety
In this clip, facilitator Kim Takacs, neurodiversity-affirming speech-language pathologist and Executive Director of Together We Bloom, explains why routine and predictability may be essential forms of nervous-system safety for neurodivergent children—not simply preferences or signs of “rigidity.”
MORE IN CARE LAB I Full workshop * Transition Support tools →
The “Me Book” Advocacy Tool
So often, the people entering our children’s lives meet paperwork steeped in a medical-model lens of disability first: diagnoses, evaluations, behaviors, and lists of deficits.
In this clip, Community Moderator Jennifer Petit-Frere shares why she created a Me Book for her daughter - and how it has served as a tool for advocating for what she needed.
MORE IN CARE LAB I Full workshop * All About Me resources →
Caregiver Capacity Check-In
In this brief practice, facilitator Chia-Ti Chiu offers a quick way to check in with our current capacity - without judging it or trying to make it different. This short but powerful guided check in can be utilized at any time as a way to help us slow down and meet the next moment with a little more room - and a little less pressure to handle everything at once.
MORE IN CARE LAB I Full workshop * Restorative Practices →
More support is waiting for you inside Care Lab.
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