Learn Play Thrive for Parents

Supporting Autistic Kids in Distress: Meltdowns, Shutdowns, & Burnout

Learn low-demand strategies to bring your child back to safety during their greatest moments of overwhelm and distress.

In this 3.25 hour recorded course, Amanda Diekman will teach you how to nurture your kids in their greatest moments of overwhelm and distress. You’ll learn how to recognize the signs of meltdowns, shutdowns, and burnout and how to bring your child back to safety, without working beyond your own capacity or neglecting your own overwhelm.

Sensory Processing Crash Course for Parents: Affirming Supports for Daily Life

Create easy-to-implement, affirming routines and strategies to reduce sensory distress for your child.

When your child has sensory differences, daily life can feel tough. Laura Petix (also known as The OT Butterfly) has been there both as an OT and as a parent. In this course, you’ll learn how to identify your child’s specific sensory processing patterns. Then you’ll learn how to reduce your child's sensory distress during daily routines and how to increase their joyful participation in the things that matter most.

Supporting Your Autistic Child to Learn, Play, & Thrive

Learn how to build from your Autistic child's strengths to support them during challenging routines, transitions, and activities.

You may have heard that Autistic kids are visual learners. But as their caregiver, you still feel stuck navigating routines, transitions, and activities. And putting pictures on things just doesn't help. In this three hour course, occupational therapist and Learn Play Thrive founder Meg Ferrell teaches you how to truly build from your child's strengths to support them during their real daily activities.