Family Routine Guide, by Rochelle Lentini and Lise Fox. This Family Routine Guide was developed to assist parents and caregivers in developing a plan to support young children who are using challenging behavior. Children engage in challenging behavior for a variety of reasons, but all children use challenging behavior to communicate messages. Challenging behavior, typically, communicates a need to escape or avoid a person/activity or communicates a desire to obtain someone/something. Once parents understand the purpose or meaning of the behavior, they can begin to select strategies to change the behavior. The Family Routine Guide includes strategies for the common routines and activities that occur during the family’s week. 

Resource Guide, by Little Friends*. This guide offers resources for those with autism and other developmental disabilities and their families.

*Little Friends was established in 1965, when teachers, parents, and advocates began a school for children with special needs. Since then, Little Friends has grown to a multi-faceted human services agency providing a variety of services for children and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and social emotional needs. Today, agency serves individuals and families throughout nine counties and over 50 school districts across Illinois.