Visual PowerPoints, printable parent toolkits and a facilitation pack for autism-informed parent sessions.
This page brings together free resources to help SENDCos and school teams run autism-informed parent coffee mornings, parent sessions or home–school conversations.
Start here:
Download the SENDCo Parent Partnership Guide first. Then choose a PowerPoint and print or share the matching Autism Toolkit pages. The printable toolkit pages can be used within parent sessions, shared with parents and carers, or used to support individual home–school conversations. The slides use clear language and visual prompts, so they may be adapted for multilingual parent groups where appropriate.
These resources can be used flexibly. Schools can run a one-off coffee morning, a short parent session, or a sequence of informal sessions. Parents and carers do not need to buy The Autism Toolkit to attend a session or benefit from the free resources. The book gives the fuller explanation, structure and context for schools or families who want to explore the ideas further.
SENDCo Parent Partnership Resource 24th June (1).pdfDownload the SENDCo Parent Partnership Resource
Printable Autism Toolkit Pages
These printable pages are taken from The Autism Toolkit by Vicky Carpenter. They are here to support gentle, practical conversations between families, schools and professionals.
They can be used at home, in coffee mornings, in parent sessions, or as part of home–school planning.
How to use these pages
Choose one page.
Read it together.
Talk about what fits the child, family or setting.
Choose one small thing to notice, try or adapt.
SENDCos and school teams can use these pages alongside the SENDCo Parent Partnership Resource to run informal autism-informed coffee mornings or short parent sessions.
Download resources by focus area
1. Understanding autism and sensory experience
Includes: PowerPoint + printable PDFs from chapters 1–3
Printable resources include: strengths, family conversation scripts, sensory profile, iceberg, sensory menu, go bag and calm corner.
1. Understanding and sensory differences.pptx2. Connection, attention and processing time
Includes: PowerPoint + printable PDFs from chapters 4–6
Printable resources include: moments of connection, joining rather than teaching, shared attention, the Wow Bag, processing time, visual support and transitions.
2. Attention and Connection.pptx3. Regulation in everyday life
Includes: PowerPoint + printable PDFs from chapters 7–9
Printable resources include: sleep, night-time routines, eating, food play, movement breaks, kitchen activities, emotions, body awareness and regulation tools.
3. Regulation in Everyday Life.pptx4. Communication and visual supports
Includes: PowerPoint + printable PDFs from chapters 10–12
Printable resources include: interests, visual supports, now/next, choices, sound play and ways children communicate.
4. Communication and visual supports.pptx5. Visual supports and executive function
Includes: PowerPoint + printable PDFs from chapters 16, 11 and 15
Printable resources include: visual supports, processing time, transitions, task steps, executive function and independence.
5. Visual supports and executive function.pptx6. Identity, wellbeing and advocacy
Includes: PowerPoint + printable PDFs from chapters 13–16
Printable resources include: identity, strengths, understanding difference, parent wellbeing, advocacy and working with school. This is also a good session for celebrating the Journey you have all taken together.
6. Identity parent wellbeing and advocacy.pptx