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Healthy Me is a programme for families with children aged 5-18 years. It’s designed to empower families to make small changes towards lifelong health and wellbeing. Healthy Me is available for free to families in Wiltshire who would like help with making healthy choices.

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We are currently operating a virtual programme which is delivered through Microsoft Teams for a 6-week period, for 30-45 minutes per week after 3:30pm.

Young people and their families can join the sessions, where they will be provided with the tools to help them sustain long-term lifestyle changes.

Once the programme has been completed, families will be supported to continue their healthy lifestyles through a series of Staying Connected sessions.

To book your place on the programme please complete a referral form or to find out more please contact the Wiltshire Health Improvement Hub:

Phone: 0300 003 4566 - option 1

email: healthyme@wiltshire.gov.uk

Facebook: Public Health Wiltshire - Home | Facebook
Face to Face Healthy Me
We no longer offer Healthy Me Bitesize, but we are hoping to start face-to-face sessions from the 11 th September 2023 every Monday at 4-5:15pm at the Olympiad Leisure Centre, Chippenham.
Healthy Me - digital A4 poster Healthy Me - referral form Healthy Me - medical form

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We are currently operating a virtual programme which is delivered through Microsoft Teams for a 6-week period, for 30-45 minutes per week after 3:30pm. Young people and their families can join the sessions, where they will be provided with the tools to help them sustain long-term lifestyle changes.

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Here is a guide on how to use the sleep journal!

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A sleep Journal to support your child in understanding the importance of sleep.

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Advice from the sleep charity for Primary age parents

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TSC-2532 CSAM 26 - Parents of Primary Age Advice Sheet

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Inclusion at Pitton Eyesight check information

NHS eyesight check information link: https://www.nhs.uk/tests-and-treatments/eye-tests-in-children/#:~:text=Although%20serious%20vision%20problems%20during,or%20go%20to%20an%20opticians.

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A range of support and services in one easy access point

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Many people believe domestic abuse involves physical violence, but verbal abuse and coercive control can be just as frightening and isolating.

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**NEW 2025/26** Inclusion at Pitton                                  Emotional Literacy Padlet

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**NEW 2025/26** Inclusion at Pitton                                  Emotional Literacy Padlet

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A Inclusion at Pitton Padlet

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Supporting your child with visual processing and memory skills

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Supporting your child with visual processing and memory skills

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Inclusion at Pitton Information on Worry worms as an emotional support resource.

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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust

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Stormbreak aim to improve children’s mental health through movement, equipping them with sustainable, transferable skills and coping strategies to thrive during the complex demands of growth into adult life.

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Featured stormbreak

Focus on Resilience

Resilience helps you to keep going when things are hard. It helps you to 'bounce back' and have another go even if you feel like giving up.

Take part in our stormbreak challenge!

To take part, create an account as a parent/carer or school (class or group). Watch and participate in a stormbreak and move a step towards completing the 25 stormbreak challenge. Every 5 stormbreaks completed you earn awards, get certificates, have fun, be active, be mentally healthy! More info parents/carers and schools. Let's stormbreak!

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Explore stombreak videos I stormbreak CIO

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Focus on Resilience Resilience helps you to keep going when things are hard. It helps you to 'bounce back' and have another go even if you feel like giving up. To take part, create an account as a parent/carer or school (class or group).

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The British Dyslexia Association is the voice for the 10% of the population that are dyslexic

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Debunking the myths around Dyslexia and giving great clear facts in easy to read chunks.

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The first step for a parent or teacher to help a child, is to learn the basics of dyslexia and the most common signs.

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We are the UKs leading charity for autistic people and their families. Since 1962, we have been providing support, guidance and advice, as well as campaigning for improved rights, services and opportunities to help create a society that works for autistic people.

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YoungMinds | Mental Health Charity For Children And Young People

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YoungMinds are a mental health charity for children, young people and their parents, making sure all young people can get the mental health support they need.

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‘How we act influences how our children think, feel and behave’ 

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‘How we act influences how our children think, feel and behave’ 

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Children are a mirror: How we act influences how our children think, feel and behave

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Routines for Children: How do they help, and how do we make them?

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Routines for Children: How do they help, and how do we make them?

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Routines for Children: How do they help, and how do we make them?

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Routines for Children: How do they help, and how do we make them?

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Understanding and responding to your child's behaviour

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Understanding and responding to your child's behaviour

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Understanding and Responding to Your Child’s Behaviour

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Mental health services for schools in England : Mentally Healthy Schools

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Understanding and mapping your local service landscape is an important factor in planning and improving children and young people’s access to support.

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PAT webinar for parents and carers: Resilience for Learning and Wellbeing

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As the Padlet offers easy to read segments, from 2025/26 Pitton will trial Termly information spread across the Padlet insead of a lengthy news letter so it is easier to find information on the topic you are looking for! 

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As the Padlet offers easy to read segments, from 2025/26 Pitton will trial Termly information spread across the Padlet insead of a lengthy news letter so it is easier to find information on the topic you are looking for! 

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Amazing Things Happen - by Alexander Amelines

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A selection of book suggestions for different topics, recommended by SENCos, other professionals and parents.

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A selection of book suggestions for different topics, recommended by SENCos, other professionals and parents.

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Support and information specifically designed for those in the Early years

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Support and information specifically designed for those in the Early years

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Not a read but a ready to use resource to support regulation and anxiety at home!

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The 5-4-3-2-1 Method: A Grounding Exercise to Manage Anxiety

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Here are a selection of pre made social stories for a variety of topics. Can't find the one you are looking for? Have a look at our guide on how to write social stories or see if any can be edited to work for your specific situation. Please see Christmas and Holidays or Transitions for social stories  to support your child in those specific times of year. 

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Here are a selection of pre made social stories for a variety of topics. Can't find the one you are looking for? Have a look at our guide on how to write social stories or see if any can be edited to work for your specific situation. Please see Christmas and Holidays or Transitions for social stories  to support your child in those specific times of year. 

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This section is specifically for transitions. Transitional periods can be challenging for children emotionally, and these guides, videos, and activities can help them negotiate these times in their lives.

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This section is specifically for transitions. Transitional periods can be challenging for children emotionally, and these guides, videos, and activities can help them negotiate these times in their lives.

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This section has a variety of links to useful support websites such as the Wiltshire Local Offer and Wiltshire Childrens Services

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This section has a variety of links to useful support websites such as the Wiltshire Local Offer and Wiltshire Childrens Services

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 Here are all of our Archive Inclusion at Pitton News letters. Each one has a selection of information which parents may find useful about Inclusion at Pitton Primary School, Areas of Learning, Child development, Emotional Literacy and links to further information from external sources. 

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 Here are all of our Archive Inclusion at Pitton News letters. Each one has a selection of information which parents may find useful about Inclusion at Pitton Primary School, Areas of Learning, Child development, Emotional Literacy and links to further information from external sources. 

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Summer Inclusion at Pitton Newsletter

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Inclusion at Pitton Autumn Edition 24_25

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This Autumn term Inclusion at Pitton has a focus on the festive season and worry in children.

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Home | Pitton Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School

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The ADHD Foundation Neurodiversity Charity - an integrated health and education service.

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Brukner has 3 books on the focus of regulation

While 'Awesome and in control' is aimed for children 7- 14

her two other books; How to Be a Superhero Called Self-Control!: Super Powers to Help Younger Children to Regulate their Emotions and Senses and Self-Control to the Rescue!: Super Powers to Help Kids Through the Tough Stuff in Everyday Life are targeted towards 4-7 year olds. These books were recommended by Bath and North East Somerset Specailist Autism Support Service however regulation tools are great for all children!

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No list of books would be complete without the work of the amazing Temple Grandin. In this book she focuses on those who think in different ways and the benefits this has.

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The Importance of Early Childhood Education

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The Importance of Early Childhood Education

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Support for multilingual families at home: Time together booklet

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Support for multilingual families at home: Time together booklet

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Preparing your child for starting school

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Preparing your child for starting school

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Building a healthy brain - Centre for Early Childhood

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Strong relationships

A child isn't born with the ability to understand and control emotions, this has to be learned. A parent or carer can play a vital role in this process, helping a child to decipher their feelings and to learn how to manage them. For example, when a child has a stressful or frightening experience, a caregiver can be present and support the child, name what the child might be feeling, stay with that feeling (even if it is big and uncomfortable) and soothe them through a cuddle.

This can communicate to the child that having a full range of feelings (from happy to sad, excited to angry) is important. And this should not be underestimated: studies have shown that our ability to manage emotions is more important than socioeconomic status or IQ in predicting things like our future health, wealth and life satisfaction.

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Building a healthy brain - Centre for Early Childhood

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Strong relationships A child isn't born with the ability to understand and control emotions, this has to be learned. A parent or carer can play a vital role in this process, helping a child to decipher their feelings and to learn how to manage them.

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Marcus: How ADHD affects me and why being different is good

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Watch 12-year-old Marcus tell Newsround about how ADHD and autism affects him, his service dog and dealing with negativity.

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TSC-2534 CSAM 26 - Parent of Children with SEND Advice Sheet

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Inclusion at pitton Summer Edition 2023/2024

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Summer Inclusion at Pitton Newsletter

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Spring Inclusion at Pitton Newsletter

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Autumn Inclusion at Pitton Newsletter

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Find Your Feet: Transitioning to secondary school

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Find Your Feet: Transitioning to secondary school

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A film that reassures children that they’re not alone when it comes to their worries about secondary school

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Spring Inclusion at Pitton Newsletter

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Five short videos on 'how we grow' up to the age of around 5

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Shaping Us, a campaign led by The Princess of Wales, aims to raise awareness of the critical importance of early childhood in shaping the adults we become.

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Wiltshire Ordinarily Available Provision for All Learners (OPAL)

OPAL is a resource which outlines the provision and support that should ordinarily be available for children and young people in education settings, such as early years, schools and colleges.

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Wiltshire Ordinarily Available Provision for All Learners (OPAL)

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How to manage digital parenting effectively

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How to manage digital parenting effectively

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Pickwick Parents' webinar How to manage digital parenting effectively

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Specialist SEN Service (SSENS) Information

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PACEY break down the transition into school into steps from Before the transition begins all the way through the end of the the first year.

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This toolkit is for parents, childcare professionals, and teachers to work together to help improve the transition process for children starting/returning to school. Our new section brings together a number of activities, resources and useful websites to support those who have been home-schooling during the pandemic.

There's regular debate about what "school ready" actually means. Research from PACEY has found that early years professionals, parents and teachers agreed that "school ready" should mean that children:

have strong social skills

can cope emotionally with being separated from their parents

are relatively independent in their own personal care

have a curiosity about the world and a desire to learn.

Across the last 12 months many children have spent large periods of time at home due to the COVID-19 outbreak, and may be feeling anxious about the return to the classroom. These resources will help you to support your child so that they are ready to start school with a smile, whether that's their very first time at school, or just the first time in a long time! Discover ideas, information and activities within the toolkit sections below:

This toolkit was developed by PACEY as part of a government-funded Starting School Together project. Part of the project was to create a range of activities for parents, childcare providers and teachers to do with children to help them prepare the skills they need to start school successfully. The activities have all been linked to the Early Years Foundation Stage outcomes in England.

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Autumn Inclusion at Pitton Newsletter 2022-2023

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A one page top tips for parents to support transitions

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A selection of books suggested by the Book trust about starting school- helping you to find a book that sparks interest in your school starter!

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Some of our favourite books for children who are starting school. Whether they're nervous or excited, these books are perfect for preparing your little one's for that big step.

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Just Like Me: 40 neurologically and physically diverse people who broke stereotypes

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Professionals

The WPCC can help you gain access to parents and carers for purposes of consultative review of your services. In line with Wiltshire's Participation Strategy, we work with commissioners and strategic leads in developing services across social care, health and education.

We also have a seat on several boards, including the Children & Young People's Trust Stakeholder Partnership Board, Trust Disability SEN Group and the Learning Disability Partnership Board. Find out who we work with and contact us today to discover how we can work together to improve services for our mutual client group.

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The WPCC can help you gain access to parents and carers for purposes of consultative review of your services. In line with Wiltshire's Participation Strategy, we work with commissioners and strategic leads in developing services across social care, health and education.

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I am an Educational and Child Psychologist with over 20 years of experience working with children and young people. I provide services to schools, parents and Educational Psychologists (EPs) in Gloucestershire and the surrounding areas.

Everything I do comes from a belief that children do the best they can do in any given context, and from a commitment to working collaboratively with children and young people and the key adults in their lives.

Dr Kate Turner

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Kate Turner is an independent Educational and Child Psychologist with 20 years of experience working with children and young people.

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Understanding & Managing difficult feelings in Autism

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Understanding & Managing difficult feelings in Autism

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Worth reading about first. Some people really like this book and others prefer to go in a different direction.

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Positively reviewed by Temple Grandin, this American author designed a Very simple and easy to follow set of rules for social do's and don'ts.

Carlos Torres and I worked together many moons ago and I have seen the amazing impact of his knowledge and hands on work in action. This book is worth looking at for secondary and beyond, but worth having in mind when you are thinking about the future.

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This book will help adults and children understand what it is like to be singled out for being different . It also empowers children helping them realise they don’t have to justify themselves to people they don’t know.

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Keeping your child Knowledgeable and safe at their developmental level with the help of NSPCC PANTS

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Great series of short sharp videos on key factors when starting school!

worth having a look and revisiting some of the videos throughout the summer alongside the PACEY Preparing your child for school guide.

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Starting primary school - BBC Parents' Toolkit - BBC Bitesize

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Advice and games to help you and your child prepare for primary school, then thrive during their first year.

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A section dedicated to resources to support Holidays and special times of year. 

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A section dedicated to resources to support Holidays and special times of year. 

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Christmas tips for autistic people and their families

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Christmas tips for autistic people and their families

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Christmas can be an exciting and fun time. But new activity can be overwhelming for some of us, particularly when we're also dealing with the impact of coronavirus. We might have to adapt some of our usual plans but that shouldn't stand in the way of an autism-friendly Christmas.

With your help, we've compiled a list of tips for the festive period. With good planning and clear communication, we hope these will help you have an enjoyable Christmas.

Key to preparing for a successful Christmas is to plan and share what is important for you with those you are spending Christmas with.

Preparing

Many autistic people can find any kind of change difficult. Planning and preparation is key in making Christmas as enjoyable as possible.

Think about ways you can enjoy the festive season that work for you - don't feel pressured into doing things just because that's what other people do.

Wherever possible, plan your Christmas in advance with your family, friends and any support services.

Make sure all plans are shared and you know what you will be doing and when, and who else will be there.

If it is helpful, use visual aids such as calendars, lists and schedules to help plan your Christmas.

Think about and plan around sensory differences that could cause you distress or discomfort, consider ear defenders etc for times of potential sensory overload.

Create or find a quiet space where you can take a break if you get overwhelmed. You may want this to be a completely Christmas-free area, particularly around the main days of Christmas or at key times that there may be additional stress.

Don't just plan for Christmas Day, plan for the whole festive break and give yourself quiet days to recoup if needed.

Especially this year, don't spend money you don't have on Christmas gifts you can't afford. Make sure you budget for buying Christmas gifts.

If you're visiting family and friends, tell them about anything that could help make your visit be as stress-free as possible. For instance, turning off Christmas lights, letting you know in advance what the food will be, sharing plans for activities and having a quiet space to escape to.

This year, many people are planning to meet up 'virtually' using online channels, such as Zoom. It might work well for you. You can decide whether you want to join in from your own phone, tablet or laptop. You can also decide how you join - for example, whether to have your camera and microphone on or off. Equally, if virtual meet ups are not your thing, don't feel pressured to take part.

"Christmas scents and candles can be super overwhelming sensory-wise so could be avoided when decorating. Flashing fairy lights can be overwhelming."

Schedules

Many autistic people have a strong need for routine. If schedule and routine is important to you, you might want to:

Keep your daily schedule the same as possible, including on Christmas Day.

Gradually introduce Christmas activities into your daily schedule. For instance, you could put up a few decorations on one day and more on another, plan a short Christmas shopping trip or decorate the tree, then switch on the tree lights on another day.

Keep a copy of your schedule with you. Share it with other people if that would help them understand what you need to do and, if anything changes, change it on your schedule so you've got a new plan.

Decorations

Many autistic people will have differing sensory needs; decorations for some are great whereas others may struggle and find them really overwhelming. You could:

Plan the most suitable decorations for you and your home, including where best to have them and how many, if any.

Consider decorating gradually, for example, you could put the Christmas tree in position, decorate it the next day, then put up other decorations even later.

Create Christmas-free areas of the home without decorations.

"I put my cards up and treasure those for the kind thoughts behind them, but otherwise have no other decorations."

Presents

Presents can also be overwhelming: the number of them, the wrapping and unwrapping them; the unclear expectations about how to respond after receiving a present. You could try telling family and friends what your preference is in advance, including:

The number of presents - make a list of presents you would like to receive and share this with your family and friends. This also removes any element of surprise, if you find that difficult.

Explaining whether you want presents to be wrapped or not.

"Last year my son chose his own main present, and checked it was right when it arrived, then it was wrapped. He felt better knowing his present was right, and it wouldn't be a surprise, so started the day calm."

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Christmas can be challenging for ADHD families. Discover 12 tips to help manage ADHD during the holiday season and enjoy the festivities.

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This is a very simple PDF social story for Christmas, focusing on key events.

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Social stories can be useful for all children, depending on the context and how they are written.