How to respond empathetically to a meltdown

Our simple, effective and Autistically informed Meltdown Response Plan will have you responding compassionately during your loved one’s meltdown, rather than adding to their overwhelm.

Emotional regulation, part two: Using co-regulation to teach emotional regulation

In part two of our series on emotional regulation, Reframing Autism founder and CEO Dr Melanie Heyworth explores how we can use co-regulation to teach our children the skill of emotional self-regulation. Specifically, she focuses on how we can cultivate our children’s self-regulation by demonstrating and modelling our own self-regulation through consistent calm connection and compassion.

Emotional regulation, part one: What is it and why is it so hard?

In this piece – the first in a two-part series – Reframing Autism founder and CEO, Dr Melanie Heyworth, examines emotional regulation: what it is, what we mean when we ask our children to regulate their emotions, and why it is so very difficult to learn to do so.