Practical tools for parents, carers and families
Our training workshops give parents and carers practical tools and guidance to support autistic children, young people or adults. You’ll learn strategies to help your child build skills, confidence and independence, while understanding their strengths and challenges. The workshops aim to equip you to help your child thrive at home, at school and in everyday life.
Toolboxes
Running fortnightly on Tuesday evenings and Thursday lunchtimes, our team leads short, topic-based online sessions for parents, carers and family members of autistic or suspected autistic children. Sessions can be joined on an ad hoc basis, but they are designed to build relationships, provide ongoing therapeutic support for families most in need and offer peer support for regular attendees.
Each one-hour session includes time for confidential discussion, sharing experiences and asking questions. Sessions are run in order, building on each other, are not recorded and are available for parents, carers and family members in Coventry and Warwickshire.
Insight: facilitated workshops, 2.5 hours
Designed to support parents, carers and families in understanding your loved one’s autism diagnosis. By exploring the condition in depth, participants will gain insight to help the person identify confidently with their autism and feel supported.
Topics include understanding autism, local services, challenges children may face, strategies to help them feel safe and seen and an introduction to the 3C Pathway.
Led by two qualified trainers with professional training and lived experience, the session draws on 20 years of knowledge, research and parenting experience. It also includes the perspectives of autistic advocates and provides time for reflection, discussion and sharing experiences.
Choose Autistic Children or Autistic Adults below
Children/Teenage Autism Support Programme, over four weeks
This four-week course consists of four three-hour sessions for parents and carers of autistic children or teenagers, or those awaiting a diagnosis. Topics include understanding autism, the teenage brain, girls and masking, self-awareness and identity, school, transitions and relationships.
The course is delivered by two qualified Act for Autism trainers, combining professional expertise with lived experience to provide practical insights and support.
Choose CASP (children) or TASP (teenagers) below
Autism and ADHD
A workshop to explore how these two conditions often coexist and mask each other and the impact this has. We will explore the challenges and the accommodations needed. Suitable for parents, carers and professionals.
Led by two qualified trainers with professional training and lived experience, the session draws on 20 years of knowledge, research and parenting experience. It also includes the perspectives of autistic advocates and provides time for reflection, discussion and sharing experiences.
Online discussion for dads of autistic individuals
An online session for dads to share and learn together. Subjects can include: understanding autism, co-regualtion, co-parenting and consistency in managing your feelings and your child’s. This will be a discussion-led session where you can pose any questions or just listen.
Led by two qualified trainers with professional training and lived experience, the session draws on 20 years of knowledge, research and parenting experience. It also includes the perspectives of autistic advocates and provides time for reflection, discussion and sharing experiences.
