Articles & Resources
Gathering for Good: Why Children Benefit from Togetherness, & How You Can Help
By: Christina Whalen, Ph.D., BCBA
The pandemic had significant effects on extended family connections, being able to gather again will let us rebuild the social support systems that help children feel they are part of a safe and loving community. Read on to pick up some tips and strategies for making holiday gatherings a successful, fun, and meaningful opportunity for you and your child to engage and learn.
Gathering for Good: 4 Tips for Hosting Healthful Gatherings
By: Angela Nelson, BCBA
The group bonding provided by gatherings creates powerful feelings of belonging and connectedness that contribute to our personal resilience-reservoirs- relationships, emotions, and memories that empower us to better endure difficult seasons of life. Read on to learn four strategies for hosting gatherings that provide you and your guests with meaningful, joyful, and intentional opportunities to foster closeness, strengthen relationships, and enjoy significant emotional wellness benefits.
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Holiday Resilience: Planning Your Child’s Happiest Holiday Season Yet
By: Angela Nelson, BCBA
The winter holidays bring fantastic celebratory occasions and traditions, but they are also packed full of changes in routine, new and novel environmental stressors, and shifting expectations. These conditions can make it hard for neurodiverse children to get into the holiday spirit the same way their neurotypical counterparts do, but with the right support in the right places, every child can have a truly magical holiday season.
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Holiday Resilience: Creating Space for Neurodivergent Joy
By: Louis Chesney
Neurodivergent adults account for up to 33 percent of our global population, so why is it that we don’t discuss the accommodations and modifications that can allow neurodiverse individuals to participate during the holidays in a way that doesn’t require them to demonstrate resilience? Read on for two sections of strategies that neurodivergent adults can use to create space in the time they share with family and friends this celebratory season to experience holiday joy equitably.