For the autism parenting moments that are breaking you
Meltdowns at pickup. The potty standoff. Getting dressed. Leaving the house. Whatever your child with autism struggles with most, this kit has a specific, printable tool for it.
Built by a licensed clinical psychologist and autism specialist who has spent 20+ years helping families through exactly these moments. Her complete book on early intervention is included.
One-time payment • Instant PDF downloads • No subscription
Maybe it's school pickup, when the transition ends in a meltdown. Maybe the potty battle is in its second year, or getting dressed starts a fight every single morning. You've been told to stay consistent and hold the boundary, and you've noticed it doesn't always work. There's a reason.
As Dr. Burgio-Murphy explains in Chapter 8, children with autism often experience the world with greater intensity, and that can make transitions, sensory input, or changes in routine especially hard. So some of these episodes are behavior, and some are neurological overload. They look almost identical from the outside, and the right response to one makes the other worse. That's why the same advice works one day and fails the next. This kit starts by helping you tell the two apart, then hands you a printed tool for each daily battle: transitions, potty, getting dressed, and the big feelings in between.
"These episodes are not a choice—they are survival responses. The child is not misbehaving; they are losing the ability to regulate themselves."
— From Chapter 8 of the included book, Autism Book for Early Intervention
Look inside
Not packaging, not a table of contents. The actual tools, exactly as you'll print them, chosen for the battles autism parents describe as the hardest: meltdowns, transitions, and the daily routines that keep turning into fights.
Every page connects back to a chapter in the included book, so you always know the why behind the what.
Sample 1 · Read this page first
Ten characteristics, side by side, plus a checklist of what you're actually seeing. This is the page to read first, because it decides which tools you reach for: a tantrum needs calm boundaries, a meltdown needs less sensory input and fewer words, and the wrong playbook makes things worse.
Sample 2 · What to say at 6pm tonight
Co-regulation means staying steady yourself so your child can borrow your calm, and in the hardest moments the right words matter as much as the right response. This page gives you those words: a grounding script for meltdowns, a validation script for resistance, the phrases to drop ('You need to calm down,' 'You're fine'), and the physical approach that goes with them.
Tonight: trade 'You need to calm down' for 'I'm right here with you. You're safe.'
Sample 3 · For pickup, bedtime, and leaving the house
The flashpoints are predictable: leaving the house, ending screen time, school pickup, bedtime. Each one gets a script with the exact warnings and the exact words, paired with countdown cards you print, laminate, and hold up. Predictability is the tool; these make it concrete.
Tonight: give the 5-minute warning with the card. Then the 3. Then the 1.
Instant download. Print only the pages you need.
The complete kit
One battle at a time. Twenty resource sections across the four areas early intervention targets, so the next hard moment has a tool waiting.
Communication temptations, joint attention builders, simplified language scripts for every daily routine, turn-taking games, and printable visual supports.
Illustrated calming cards, the meltdown vs. tantrum assessment, transition tools, and a self-regulation guide written for you, the parent.
First/Then boards, visual schedules, choice boards, and step-by-step task sheets for dressing, toileting, and mealtimes.
Fine and gross motor activities, a sensory profile assessment, sensory break cards, and tools for building on your child's special interests.
Autism Book for Early Intervention: A Parent's Playbook explains the science in plain language, so you're never following instructions blindly. Every kit page cites its chapter. Full PDF included in your $49 bundle.
Meet the author
Licensed clinical psychologist & autism specialist
Andrea has sat with families through twenty years of these exact moments. This kit is what she hands them.
For more than two decades, Dr. Burgio-Murphy has worked in early childhood development, autism assessment, therapy, and parent consultation. She wrote this book and kit to translate developmental science into steps parents can take in everyday interactions, starting well before a formal diagnosis.
We won't pretend otherwise. What the right tools plus consistency do is change the slope: transitions that blow up a little less often, recoveries that come a little faster, and a parent who knows which playbook to run instead of guessing mid-crisis. This kit complements professional care and never replaces it, and if the hard moments involve safety risks or a child hurting themselves, bring your pediatrician and providers in. You deserve that support, and so does your child.
For parents and caregivers of young autistic children, especially toddlers and preschoolers.
Get the Meltdown vs. Tantrum comparison chart (the one above) free, printable, no strings. It's the page to read before the next hard moment.
One email with the chart, plus occasional early intervention tips from Dr. Burgio-Murphy. Unsubscribe anytime.
Pick your hardest moment and print its pages tonight.
"It takes away the guesswork, the guilt, and the pressure to 'fix' something in the moment."
— from Chapter 8 of the included book, on knowing meltdowns from tantrums
One payment. Both PDF downloads.
No subscription · No physical shipment