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.
Free Downloads for Caregivers
We created the tools below to offer some space to check in with your own capacity and care for yourself as you navigate this stretch. Come back to them when you need extra support - or a reminder that whatever you’re feeling is allowed.
Short Videos to Support You
These three short clips from Care Lab workshops feel especially useful during back-to-school - for thinking about what our kids may need through change and transition, and tending to our own capacity along the way.
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.”
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.
Capacity Check-In