Free self-guided online parenting course, with certificate, for parents of neurodivergent children, including those with autism and ADHD The course covers responsive and low demand parenting strategies, managing change and transitions, communication, distressed behaviours, sensory issues, carer burnout, looking after yourself and more. This online course has been written by parents and experienced parenting professionals with years of experience supporting families with relevant issues.
Who is this course for?
This course is aimed at parents and carers of neurodivergent children, teens and young adults whether there is a diagnosis or not.
Modules on this course
This course is designed to support you with compassionate, practical strategies that meet your and your child’s unique needs. The parents who have created this course understand the challenges, small wins and the overwhelming moments and have lived experience of raising neurodivergent children, teens and young adults. The strategies and tools come from real-life experience.
- Responsive parenting
- Managing distressed behaviours and emotional regulation
- Communication, sensory needs and sleep
- Looking after yourself
How does the course work?
All the modules are filled with helpful strategies and tools created to support you as you navigate parenting neurodivergent children.
This is a self-guided parenting course, which you can do whenever and wherever suits you and work through it at our own pace.
The course is a mixture of text, images, interactive elements, videos and quizzes. You can do it on a mobile, tablet or computer. You’ll get a downloadable certificate when you complete the course.
The course takes approximately 3 hours in total. You have 60 days from registering to complete the course.
How to sign up for this course
To access our parenting neurodivergent children course, please register here.
To register, please enter your preferred contact email address where it says ‘work email’. Please note this does not need to be a work email address. Please note that this is a free online parenting course. If you would like further information about this online course, please email services@familylives.dominocodes.dev.
By signing up to this course, you are giving your consent for us to process your data. We use Coassemble to provide this service and they are based in Australia. Please note that your data will be processed outside the UK and EEA. We have an agreement in place with the data processor. You can read our Privacy Notice and also Coassemble’s Privacy Policy for further information.
If you need some immediate support you can talk to us online via our live chat service, send us a WhatsApp message on 07441 444125, call us on our helpline on 0808 800 2222 or email us at askus@familylives.dominocodes.dev to speak to trained family support worker.
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