Resources for families
LEGO Playgroup
Drop in to one of our free LEGO playgroups! Children in preschool through Grade 8 are invited to attend.
In-home Respite Care
Families raising children or adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities are invited to join the Campus to Community Respite Care program. Students will come to your home one night per week to provide free respite care.
Weekly Board Game Nights
Adults from the community are welcome to join us on campus for weekly board game nights, Sundays 5-7pm the Learning Studio Space of the Science and Technology Library (Lederle Graduate Research Center).
Book Recommendations
Parents often reach out to us to ask for recommendations on books about autism. There have been a number of excellent books recently published by autistic authors about their perspectives and experiences. We encourage you to check out the following titles:
- Start Here: A Guide for Parents of Autistic Kids (Autistic Self-Advocacy Network)
- We’re all Neurodiverse (Sonny Jane Wise, 2023)
- We’re not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation (Eric Garcia, 2021)
- Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity (Devon Price, 2022)
- The #ActuallyAutistic Guide to Advocacy: Step-by-Step Advice on How to Ally and Speak Up with Autistic People and the Autism
Community (Jennifer Brunton & Jenna Gensic, 2022) - Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity (Edited by Emily Paige Ballou, Sharon daVanport, & Morénike Giwa Onaiwu, 2021)
- Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities (Nick Walker, 2021)