Supporting Your Autistic Child to Learn, Play, & Thrive

In this three hour recorded course, you'll learn strengths-based ways to support your Autistic child in their real-daily routines so you can approach each day with confidence.

Course launches December 10th! Grab your spot during pre-registration for $89 (full price is $129) and get one year’s access on demand.

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What You'll Learn

Part 1: Take Your Child's Perspective

Most of us were never taught about the Autistic neurotype. Or worse, we were taught pathologizing ideas that don't truly reflect the broad, varied, and deeply human ways that Autistic people experience the world.

We'll start the course by diving deep into what we know about how Autistic people think and experience the world, with input from Autistic adults with many different intersectional identities.

Then you'll learn a process for problem-solving tough moments and routines by starting with your child's perspective. You’ll use what you’ve learned about the Autistic neurotype to create dozens of hypotheses about why your child is struggling. And we’ll teach you how to map from there to strengths-based interventions.

Part 2: Learn, Play & Thrive!

At Learn Play Thrive, we love child-led therapy sessions. But we also know that your daily routine has a lot of transitions, and that there are a lot of things your child needs to do.

We want to help you create and use visual supports, environmental adaptations, and skillful teaching to support them in every transition.

This module includes instruction in how to support more concrete thinkers (who learn best from objects, not pictures), all the way through kids who easily read written words.

We’ll teach you how to support your child in pre-academic and academic skills, self-care routines, and so much more.

We’ll show you how to easily make schedules your child actually wants to use and can use flexibly, instead of creating something that gets ignored or turns into a memorized routine that can’t be easily changed.

Then we’ll tell you everything we know about Autistic play, and how you can help your child thrive during free time.

Part 3: What's Next?

In the final module, we’ll walk you through a few case studies that put all of the LPT Approach principles into action with kids going out into the community to participate fully and joyfully in their real daily lives with strengths-based supports in place.

Supporting Your Autistic Child to Learn, Play, & Thrive is for you if:

  • You support an Autistic child in their real daily routines and activities and want to see them thrive
  • Traditional behavioral interventions like rewards charts or withholding interests feel wrong in your core
  • You want to build from your child’s strengths and you want support knowing exactly how to do it
  • (If you’re a professional, go here instead!)

About your instructor

Meg Ferrell, M.S., OTR/L

Meg Ferrell

Meg Ferrell (she/her) is an occupational therapist and the founder of Learn Play Thrive and Learn Play Thrive for Parents. Meg cares deeply about person-affirming therapy and has trained thousands of professionals in neurodiversity-affirming care.

Meg has spent the last six years interviewing and learning from Autistic adults. She feels honored to help parents support their kids in a way that is aligned with their values.

Meg has worked as an OT in early intervention, schools, and clinics and is the mom to two kids. She is a former faculty member of the TEACCH® Autism program, and she is the host of the Two Sides of the Spectrum Podcast, where she interviews Autistic adults and other professionals striving to change therapy practice.

FAQ

Who is this course for?

This course is designed for parents, caregivers, and para-professionals who support an Autistic child from age two through adolescence. If you’re looking for our courses for professionals, go here instead.

Will this course help me with my PDAer?

Maybe. This course is not designed specifically for Autistic kids with a PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance) profile. If your child responds well to structure and clear instructions, this course is likely to be supportive for you. We plan to release a course on PDA soon, so stay tuned!

What's the refund policy?

We want to make sure our courses are meeting your needs. If you’ve watched less than half of the training and it’s been 30 days or less since your purchase and it’s not the right course for you, email us at parents@learnplaythrive.com for a full refund.

Does Learn Play Thrive provide therapy?

No. We are an education company. While we host guest instructors who may provide services, we do not arrange these through Learn Play Thrive.

What's the refund policy?

We want to make sure our courses are meeting your needs. If you’ve watched less than half of the training and it’s been 30 days or less since your purchase and it’s not the right course for you, email us at parents@learnplaythrive.com for a full refund.

How can I request disability accommodations?

All videos used in this presentation have closed captions. If you need additional accommodation, please email admin@learnplaythrive.com prior to your training date. Accommodations will be made to support all learners in compliance with the Americans with Disability Act.

Are there scholarship options?

Yes! We are still working on our scholarship. If our courses aren’t affordable to you, make sure you’re on our email list and we’ll send out details in early 2025.

What are the system requirements to watch the trainings?

This summit will be hosted on Thinkific. You will need one of the two latest versions of a supported browser to access the course. (Note: Internet Explorer is not supported).

Desktop:

  1. Chrome
  2. Firefox
  3. Safari
  4. Microsoft Edge

Mobile:

  1. iOS Safari
  2. Chrome
  3. Samsung Internet

In order to ensure that Thinkific runs well, you will need:

  1. The most recent version of one of the web browsers listed above
  2. Javascript enabled
  3. PDF plugin
  4. Graphic and audio output capability
  5. Broadband internet connection with a minimum speed of 5Mbps (recommended)
  6. TLS 1.2 supported by your web browser

This information was adapted from: https://support.thinkific.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030354954-System-Requirements-and-Supported-Browsers

I have another question. How can I contact you?

You can reach our team by email at parents@learnplaythrive.com