Thinking About An Autism Assessment? - A reflective Guide
This free autism reflection guide is designed to support individuals who are considering an autism assessment but are not yet sure what the next step might be.
It offers a calm, structured space to think through personal experiences, including social differences, masking, sensory sensitivities, and patterns over time. The guide is not a diagnostic tool and does not replace a professional autism assessment. Instead, it is intended to support informed decision making at your own pace.
This resource may be particularly helpful for adults exploring a possible autism diagnosis, parents reflecting on their child’s needs, or anyone seeking clarity before pursuing a private or NHS autism assessment.
Download the guide below to begin reflecting at your own pace.
A Strengths Resource
Our 5 Great Things About Me series is a collection of gentle, strengths-based printables designed to help children, teens, adults, families, and schools focus on strengths, confidence, self-awareness, and wellbeing.
These resources encourage people to notice the positive things about themselves and each other through simple reflective prompts that celebrate growth, kindness, resilience, connection, and individuality.
The printables can be used at home, in schools, in support settings, or independently, and are designed to be flexible, low-pressure, and accessible for a wide range of ages and needs.
Created using a strengths-based and neuroaffirming approach, this series is about recognising that everyone has strengths worth celebrating.
- Small things count.
- Strengths matter.
- You are enough, exactly as you are.
Because everyone deserves opportunities to notice the great things about themselves.
Gentle reminders, comfort strategies and small supports
A calming, neuroaffirming printable designed to help children, teens, and adults explore the things that bring comfort, safety, regulation, rest, and support during difficult days.
This resource encourages gentle reflection around emotional wellbeing, self-kindness, sensory comfort, support needs, rest, and the small things that can help when life feels overwhelming.
Through supportive prompts and affirming reminders, this printable helps people recognise that comfort, rest, regulation, and asking for support are all valid and important.
Gentle reminders about rest, recovery, and slowing down
A calming, neuroaffirming printable designed to encourage children, teens, and adults to recognise the importance of rest, recovery, and listening to their body and mind.
This resource gently explores the different ways people rest and recharge, while encouraging self-kindness, emotional wellbeing, and the understanding that rest is not something that needs to be earned.
Through reflective prompts and affirming reminders, this printable supports people to notice signs of overwhelm, identify what helps them recharge, and create healthier, more compassionate relationships with rest.
Gentle reflections on growth, healing and self-compassion
A calming, strengths-based printable designed to help adults reflect on the things they wish they had known, heard, or understood earlier in life.
This resource gently explores self-compassion, emotional healing, unmet support needs, identity, growth, and the reminders many people still need today, especially those who have spent years masking, struggling silently, or feeling misunderstood.
Through reflective prompts and affirming messages, this printable encourages people to recognise that they were always worthy of kindness, support, rest, understanding, and care.
Perfect for personal reflection, therapy spaces, support sessions, wellbeing work, or quiet moments of self-understanding.
Supporting emotional regulation, rest, and recovery
A gentle, neuroaffirming printable designed to help children, teens, and adults explore what helps when they feel overwhelmed, overloaded, anxious, or emotionally exhausted.
This resource encourages reflection around comfort, regulation, sensory needs, emotional safety, support needs, and recovery strategies in a calm and accessible way.
Perfect for use at home, in schools, therapy spaces, or support sessions.
Feeling safe helps us learn, grow, connect, and be ourselves.
These pages are designed to help children, young people, and adults reflect on the people, places, sensory experiences, and supports that help them feel calm, safe, and understood.
Celebrating progress, effort, and small victories
A gentle printable designed to help people recognise and celebrate the small things that often go unnoticed — from getting through hard days, to resting, coping, trying again, or simply continuing.
This resource encourages reflection around progress, self-compassion, resilience, and recognising that even tiny steps forward still matter.
Perfect for children, teens, and adults, these printables can be used at home, in schools, support sessions, wellbeing spaces, or as part of everyday emotional wellbeing and self-care.
A gentle printable resource
This neuroaffirming printable series has been created to help autistic children, teens and adults and the people who support them to better understand autistic burnout, recognise the signs, reduce pressure, and support recovery with compassion and understanding.
The series explores what autistic burnout is, how it can present differently for different people, what may contribute to it, and the kinds of support that can help create safety, recovery and hope.
Included in the pack:
- An introduction to autistic burnout
- Adult version
- Teen version
- Children’s version
- A guide for parents, carers and teachers
The series also signposts to our separate Energy & Needs resource to support energy management, recovery and burnout prevention.
Understanding your energy, one day at a time
This simple, supportive tracker is designed to help you notice patterns in your day and better understand what affects your energy levels. By gently reflecting on what uses your energy and what helps to restore it, you can begin to make sense of overwhelming days and build more balance over time. There’s no right or wrong way to use it, just a space to explore what works for you.
Talking to your teenager about autism can feel like stepping into unfamiliar territory, especially if you’re unsure how they might respond. This guide is designed to make that first step feel a little easier. It offers simple, reassuring ways to open up the conversation, helping your teen feel understood rather than analysed. By approaching the topic with curiosity, honesty, and care, you create a safe space where your teenager can explore their thoughts and feelings at their own pace. These conversations are important because they build trust, reduce anxiety, and can be the first step towards greater self-understanding and support.
Understanding My Sensory Needs is a gentle, neuroaffirming printable resource designed to help autistic individuals explore the sensory experiences, environments, and supports that help them feel calm, comfortable, and regulated.
Using soft, emotionally safe language and calming visuals, this pack supports self-understanding around sensory needs, overwhelm, regulation, and recovery, without judgement or deficit-based language.
Suitable for autistic children, teenagers, and adults, as well as parents, carers, schools, and professionals.
This resource also includes two visual versions to support different sensory and aesthetic preferences.
Both contain the same supportive content, allowing individuals to choose the style that feels most comfortable for them.
Understanding Autism - A Guide For Children
Understanding how our brains work can have so many benefits. Not only does it support our mental health, (allowing us to celebrate and work to our strengths, and implementing meaningful strategies to support the things we find to be challenging,) but it also allows us to understand why we might do things differently to other people. This free guide for children is designed to help young autistic children (or children on the autism diagnostic pathway) to understand autism and why they might experience the world in the way in which they do. It also might be beneficial for neurotypical children to gain insight into autism.
Useful Contacts
Download our list of useful contacts to find a range of support services to meet your needs.
Managing Meltdowns
Meltdowns can be an exhausting and overwhelming part of the autistic experience. Often they can occur when a person is overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious or managing changes. Download our PDF guide for simple steps that can have a big impact
28 Prompts for Journalling
Journalling can be a good way to manage stress, low mood, anxiety and reduce ruminating. It can also help us to learn more about ourselves. Download our free journalling prompts here.
Social Care Assessment
If you have a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Condition, you can apply for a Social Care Assessment to help manage daily living. Download our guide here.
Autism Masking
Autism masking or camouflaging can be done consciously or unconsciously. To find out more, download our brief guide here.
Managing Change
Change can be overwhelming for people with autism. Download our simple guide for managing change here
Reasonable adjustments for employers & education providers
The Equality Act (2010) enables people with autism to request reasonable adjustments within their place of work of education establishment. Download our simple guide here as to how you can create an inclusive environment for autistic people.