Anxiety resources - early years children

FREE RESOURCES

• "About me" social story - Does your child struggle with transitions, friendships at daycare and kindy? Template to print and send to teachers, other children when starting a new day-care/school
• Visual calendars - Does your child have trouble transitioning (eg from play time to dinner time)? Template coming soon.  
• Sensory sensitivities - is your child a picky eater? Do they need the tags cut off their clothes? How to start their sensory diet. Template coming soon. 
• Anxiety checklist coming soon.

• Frankie’s Clubhouse – evidence-based suite of resources and storybooks aimed at reducing medical traumatic stress and anxiety for babies, children, and their caregivers during medical procedures or hospital stays.🐾💚 

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  You can access storybooks, videos, animations, and educational resources featuring Frankie, the lovable plush puppy here.

  Created by the Queensland Centre for Perinatal and Infant Mental Health (QCPIMH), available to health professionals, families, early childhood educators and teachers as well as researchers, offering support to:
  ✅ Prepare kids for medical procedures with CALM Care 
  ✅ Offer comfort and reassurance throughout hospital stays 
  ✅ Help with emotional recovery 

  Frankie’s Clubhouse provides tools that can help children understand and cope with medical treatment, manage stress and navigate upsetting experiences through play.

  Do you know how to explain the cyclone happening to your child? Here’s a social story for Cyclone Alfred 

Hidden disability Sunflower Lanyard 

• https://hdsunflower.com/au/
• Available at info desk at the Brisbane Museum, GOMA, Art Gallery (no proof of disability required)
• Available at Westfield shopping centres (form to be completed)
  
• Available at Airports (form to be completed)

Access to National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) - Australia only 

• Benevolent Society
• You don't need an autism diagnosis to apply for early intervention
• Applying to access NDIS 
• Changes to the NDIS from 3 October 2024 
• Carers Impact Statements - coming soon

Supports for children outside of NDIS scheme

• Early Childhood Development Program - Queensland only
• If you're under 25, you may be entitled to 10 sessions under Medicare 
• At school - Queensland only
• Flying travel tips if you have a child with autism

Parenthood and anxiety

• Helping your child manage anxiety through a free online course from PPP Parenting 
• Mamamia
  
• Can you get a diagnosis for your child? 
• Raising children - anxiety tips for parents
• Free Triple P parenting course 

Autism in children 

• Autism Australia - signs in toddlers
• Raising children - early signs in children
• Autism Queensland - what is autism in children
• Autism can be diagnosed in children aged from 18 - 24 months, but can sometimes be diagnosed even younger
• Sesame Street and Autism 
• You've received a diagnosis - understanding ASD levels

Subtly Anxious does not provide health or medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Any information published on this website or by Subtly Anxious is not intended to be a replacement for health or medical advice. These resources are provided for informational and support purposes.

If you're based in Australia, 24-hour support is available through Lifeline on 13 11 14 or beyondblue on 1300 22 4636. 

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