After the long process of having your child assessed for autism, you have likely been handed a stack of papers and off you go! The information can be overwhelming and it’s hard to know where to start. 

We’ve been there. Having been parents new to diagnosis ourselves at one time, we gathered some resources, directions, and tips that our former selves would have liked to have when our children were first diagnosed.

A vast number of adults did not receive a diagnosis as children due to their higher cognitive skills, gender issues and other mental health issues overshadowing what we now know as an autism profile.