Learn How to Help Your Child With Autism Feel Better When You're Sad
This six page social story will help your child with autism recognize what sadness is and how to manage the feeling without "melting down" or withdrawing.
Teach Your Child with Autism How to Make Eye Contact With a Friend
This 7-page social story will help your child with autism learn how to make eye contact with another person. An essential skill when building relationships with others.
Learn How To Ask for a Turn When Playing Through This Social Story
Taking turns when playing is an essential social skill. This 5-page social story will teach your child how to ask for a turn when initiating play with another child.
Teach Your Child How to Control Anger As A Sign of Autism
One of our most popular and effective social stories. It teaches your child the skills they need to "check in" with themselves so they can avoid "melting down".
Teaching Your Child How to Respond When Someone Greets You
This eight page social story will teach your child how to respond in an appropriate way when someone greets them. An essential relationship building skill.
Reduce or Eliminate your Meltdowns
"Meltdowns" are one of the most challenging aspects of autism. Teach your child how to monitor and calm themselves before a "Meltdown" occurs.
Manage Your Personal Space
This eight page social story will teach your child who has autism how to create a socially appropriate amount of space between them and another person.
Voice Volume Control
Teach your child with autism how to manage the volume of their voice, how to monitor themselves and their surroundings. An essential skill for acceptance from others.
Take one. Take all nine. They’re yours.
Every story above was written by Tyler McNamer — diagnosed with autism at two, told he would never live independently, now an author and speaker.
If tonight is a hard one, start with the story that matches the moment you’re in. You don’t have to use all of them.
And if tonight feels bigger than one story
The stories stay free, always. But some nights a printout isn’t what you need. Here is where parents go next — in their own words.
“The meeting is in two weeks and I’m already lying awake about it.”
You are allowed to walk in prepared. Start with our free checklist — sixteen things to do before, during and after. If you want the rest, IEP Tips & Tricks shows you what to do when the answer is no. $17, one time.
“She’s nothing like the boys in the books, and nobody writes about her.”
Girls get missed for years, and their mothers get told they are imagining it. Girls on the Spectrum is about what it is really like to grow up as a girl on the spectrum — and what she needs you to understand. $97.
“I don’t want one answer. I want to stop feeling like we’re doing this alone.”
That one we understand best. Population One is Tyler’s full library and a community of families at every stage, pre-school to adulthood. Watch the free workshop first and decide afterwards. Cancel any time.
And if you know another parent in the middle of this, please send them this page. That is how most families find us.
