All Resources
Books
High School Hacks: A No-nonsense Guide to High School, for Kids on the Autism Spectrum/A Collection of Short, to the Point Truth Bombs, Useful for Both Students and Teachers
This book explains high school's often mysterious and confusing world for autistic students. It can help teachers, parents, and caregivers better understand their young people's challenges.
10 Steps to Reducing Your Child's Anxiety on the Autism Spectrum: The CBT-Based 'Fun with Feelings' Parent Manual
The stepping stones for parents of young children with autism to better understand their child's emotional skill set and empower them to understand and articulate their feelings.
Developing differently: A guide for parents of young children with global developmental delay, intellectual disability, or autism
A step-by-step plan that will support you to embed good practices at home when parenting a child with a global developmental delay, intellectual disability or autism.
Superflex: A superhero social thinking curriculum (2008)
This comic book is aimed at elementary school children to teach them how they can use strategies to self-regulate some of their own wayward, not quite so flexible thoughts and behaviours.
Medication Sheets
Treating Irritability of ASD
Information sheet on medications for treating irritability of autism.
Paliperidone SR (Invega®)
Paliperidone is used for treatment of schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, management of acute mania in bipolar disorder, and irritability associated with autism spectrum disorder.
Traditional Antipsychotics
Traditional Antipsychotics are antipsychotic and mood stabilizer medications used in the treatment of schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, tic disorders, autism symptoms and behavioural disorders.
Ziprasidone (Zeldox®)
Ziprasidone is an antipsychotic and mood stabilizer medication used in the treatment of schizophrenia, autism symptoms, bipolar disorder and tourette syndrome.
Aripiprazole (Abilify®)
Aripiprazole is an antipsychotic and mood stabilizer medication and is also used for treatment of irritability of autism.
PDFs
Part of what makes you, you! Information about Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
An handbook for children and their families with a new diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. Children can learn what autism is, explore how they feel about the diagnosis and better understand what it means to them.
Medication Decision Aid for Parents of Children with Autism
This decision aid has been designed to help you decide whether to have your child take medicine.
Support Service
Pacific Autism Family Network (PAFN)
The Pacific Autism Family Network (PAFN) is a centre of excellence and network of supports for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families across the province.
Laurel Behaviour Support Services
Offers individualized behaviour support services for children and adults with autism or other developmental disabilities. They offer Triple P Stepping Stones workshops, as well as other workshops for families, care providers and professionals.
Videos
The Gift of Being Different
The Gift of Being Different, a short documentary, follows Grant Bruno as he navigates the world of autism with his child. Through the film we learn his community views autism as a gift.
Websites
Parent Advice Videos
Parent Advice Videos are questions asked and answered by parents across Canada. This project was created and developed by Canadian parents from the autism community.
Self-Injurious Behaviours
This unique 6-part series on self-injurious behaviour (SIB) is meant to promote education around severe SIB, create a supportive SIB community, and advocate for better health outcomes.
Social Thinking Concepts Webinars
A collection of free webinars presented by experts in Social Thinking Methodology.
Preparing Children and Youth for Hospital Procedures
This webpage provides resources to help children and youth understand what will be happening to them during their visit to the hospital and during different procedures.This includes resources for children with anxiety, autism, and other mental health challenges.
Prepare To Launch: A Resource Guide for Parents of Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder
This Guide is intended for parents of adolescent children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who wish to better understand the process of navigating the transition between the teenage years and young adulthood.
Autism Spectrum Disorder
Government resource providing information on autism assessment, funding programs, and resources for parents & service providers.
Autism Community Training (ACT)
Provides province-wide information and educational opportunities on autism to support families and service providers.
