Printable Parent Toolkit Pages for Coffee Mornings and Home–School Support 

I am developing short, simple, free PowerPoint slides to support autism-informed coffee mornings.

If these would be useful for your school or parent group, please email me. 

This page brings together the SENDCo facilitation pack and the printable parent pages that sit alongside it.

The SENDCo Parent Partnership Resource helps schools run informal autism-informed coffee mornings, parent sessions or short parent partnership sequences.

The printable Autism Toolkit pages can be used within those sessions, shared with parents and carers, or used to support home–school conversations.

Together, these resources offer a gentle, practical way to build shared language between families and schools, reduce isolation, and support small, manageable next steps in everyday life.

Parents and carers do not need to buy The Autism Toolkit to attend or benefit. The printable pages below provide shared prompts for discussion. 

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.

Toolkit Pages: Download by focus area

1. Understanding autism and sensory experience
Chapters 1–3
Use for starting conversations about autism, strengths, sensory needs and behaviour that feels confusing.

2. Connection, attention and low-demand interaction
Chapters 4–6
Use for thinking about joining, shared attention, low-pressure interaction and co-regulation.

3. Regulation
Chapters 7–9
Use for exploring sensory menus, calm spaces, sleep, eating, movement and emotional regulation.

4. Communication and visual support
Chapters 10–12
Use for reducing language load, using visuals, supporting choices and understanding communication.

5. Identity, strengths and belonging
Chapters 13 and 15
Use for supporting strengths, self-understanding, friendship, belonging and autistic identity.

6. Parent wellbeing and advocacy
Chapters 14 and 16
Use for supporting parent wellbeing, home–school messages, advocacy and next conversations. This is also a good session for celebrating the Journey you have all taken together.