Helpful resources to help navigate the holidays and festivities
Thank you to the young people, parents, FASD Hub South West, and our Adopt South West workers for sharing their top tips for navigating the festive holiday season:
- Adoption UK advice: Coping with Christmas
- Tips for families for the holidays from Adopt South West including downloads, stories and routines and Christmas planning ideas
- Top tips for a more successful sensory Christmas
- Five tips to reduce sensory meltdowns during the holidays
- Free Christmas resource pack for all ages from Home for Good
- Five Ways To Have A Trauma Informed Christmas
- Managing meltdowns through good self-regulation Watch Sarah Fisher’s Managing Meltdowns on YouTube
Festive resources from Beacon House (beaconhouse.org.uk):
- Make your own Sensory Advent Calendar
- Making Sensory Snowman Putty
- Managing the Christmas Sensory Overload
- Out with the Old, in with the New: Christmas Traditions
- PACE at Christmastime
- Supporting Transitions: How To Weather The Transition Storm
- The Christmas Storm: Surviving and Thriving At Christmas
- The Christmas Ad Christmas: An Alternative Survival Guide
- The Ghosts of Christmas: A Self-Reflection Exercise