Support your daughter through puberty with confidence. This 37-page interactive PDF helps families teach hygiene, menstruation, body safety, consent, emotional changes, and self-care to autistic girls and girls with developmental disabilities. Includes visual strategies, worksheets, checklists, shower and period-planning tools, sensory-friendly product guidance, school support plans, AAC ideas, and curated resources. Print at home or complete digitally.

Support your son through puberty with confidence. This 28-page interactive PDF helps families teach hygiene, body changes, privacy, consent, emotional changes, and self-care to autistic boys and boys with developmental disabilities. Includes visual strategies, worksheets, checklists, showering and grooming plans, guidance for deodorant, shaving, erections and wet dreams, school support planning, AAC ideas, and curated resources. Print at home or complete digitally.

Designed for teens and young adults experiencing anxiety, sensory sensitivities or discomfort with water, this toolkit breaks shower readiness into manageable steps. Families and professionals can identify sensory barriers, create personalized comfort plans and build confidence at an individual pace. Includes a water comfort profile, sensory assessment, individualized plan, support-tool guide, strategies for managing overwhelm and a 12-week progress tracker.

Consistent hygiene routines across home, school and therapy settings can help learners build independence. This toolkit helps families, educators and providers coordinate goals, visual supports, prompting strategies and expectations. Learn to assign team roles, track progress and identify why skills may vary across environments. Includes communication tools, a Hygiene Support Agreement and a Hygiene Skills Tracking Guide to turn collaboration into an actionable plan.

Teaching hygiene involves more than giving instructions. This parent-focused toolkit helps caregivers identify sensory, communication, motor and sequencing barriers that make routines difficult. Learn to break skills into manageable steps, use effective prompting, encourage participation and gradually reduce assistance. Includes strategies for recognizing progress, managing caregiver frustration and knowing when to teach, adjust expectations or simply get through the routine.

Designed to build greater personal-care independence, this toolkit breaks showering, grooming, oral hygiene, clean clothing, laundry and self-monitoring into manageable routines. Learners can identify existing skills, establish hygiene schedules, follow visual routines and recognize when personal care is needed. Includes practical worksheets, skill-building activities and progress trackers to help learners complete everyday hygiene tasks with increasing independence.

Starting school without independent toileting can feel overwhelming—but you’re not alone. This practical, judgment-free course helps parents of children with disabilities, developmental differences, and delayed toileting prepare with confidence. Learn how to communicate with the school, request support, create a toileting plan, pack supplies, and practice routines—while protecting your child’s dignity and meeting them where they are.

Explore the Spectrum Dispatch digital toolkit library and learn how our Founding Resource Partner Program works. Review resources created for families navigating Early Intervention, special education, placement decisions, and transition planning. Access is provided by invitation only. Participation as an affiliate requires acceptance of a separate Affiliate Agreement.