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