An 8-page printable Christmas visual timetable pack for autistic children and pupils with SEN: 60 picture cards, a now-and-next board and a holiday week planner. The holidays throw the usual routine out of the window. Seeing the day, and the week, in pictures takes a lot of the worry out of it. What’s inside (8 pages, A4 and US Letter): My Christmas Day - a schedule strip with eight boxes (First, Then… Last) to put picture cards in and tick off. Now and next board - one thing at a time. My holiday week - a week planner for the whole break, so the days in between don’t feel shapeless. 60 picture cards over three pages - 48 drawn cards plus 12 blanks to draw your own. As well as the everyday ones (wake up, breakfast, get dressed, bath, story, bed), there are cards for the holiday: presents, visitors, car journey, train, plane, grandparents’ house, church, shopping, party, crackers, decorate the tree, stocking, write cards, baking, crafts, music, photos, video call, wait, finished, help, hug and stop. First, then board with “I need a break” and “help” cards. How to use the pack - a page for the grown-ups. Ideas for using it: Send it home before the holidays so families can plan the break the same way school does. Use the week planner to show the days between Christmas and going back. Laminate the cards and use Velcro dots so they can be moved when plans change. Simple, low-clutter pictures with a thick outline, drawn in the Frog Logic frog style. Made by Sam at Frog Logic, who makes gentle printables for neurodivergent people and the people around them. Just want to try it first? The free Christmas Visual Timetable in my shop has the day schedule and 20 cards.

23 plain-English, two-page guides to autism, ADHD, dyslexia, PDA, dyspraxia and more. Kind, jargon-free and printable, to hand to parents, carers and staff. Each guide explains the condition in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, what people often get wrong (with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table), the strengths that often come with it, and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who need something gentle to give a family after a diagnosis or a referral, to share with grandparents, or to use in staff CPD. Included (46 pages, PDF): ADHD, AuDHD, Autism, PDA, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia, Dysgraphia, Auditory Processing Disorder, Sensory Processing, Selective Mutism, Tourette’s, Anxiety, OCD, Misophonia, Alexithymia, Aphantasia, Prosopagnosia, Synaesthesia, Depression, Bipolar, BPD and CPTSD. Written by a neurodivergent author. These are friendly explainers, not diagnostic tools or medical advice. All 23 guides in one file. Print as many copies as you need for your own teaching and support work. Only need one? Each guide is also free on its own in my Tes shop.

A free printable Christmas visual timetable for autistic children and pupils with SEN: a picture schedule for the day, 20 picture cards and a first/then board. Christmas throws the usual routine out of the window, at school and at home. Seeing the day in pictures, in order, takes a lot of the worry out of it. What’s inside (3 pages, A4 and US Letter): My Christmas Day - a schedule strip with eight boxes (First, Then… Last). Put a picture card in each box and tick each one off when it’s done. 20 picture cards - Wake up, Toilet, Breakfast, Get dressed, Presents, Quiet time, Go outside, Watch TV, Visitors, Car journey, Christmas dinner, Pudding, Play a game, Video call, Snack, Bath, Pyjamas, Story, Bed, plus a blank card to draw your own. First, then board and an “I need a break” card, for when it gets a bit much. Ideas for using it: Send it home with families before the holidays, so the day can be gone through the night before and again in the morning. If plans change, change the cards. A surprise on paper is easier than a surprise out loud. Laminate the cards and use Blu Tack or Velcro dots so they can be moved. Simple, low-clutter pictures with a thick outline, drawn in the same style as the Frog Logic frogs. Made by Sam at Frog Logic, who makes gentle printables for neurodivergent people and the people around them. Want more cards? The Christmas Visual Timetable Pack in my shop has 60 picture cards, a now-and-next board and a holiday week planner.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to aphantasia, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Some people picture an apple and see an apple. Some see nothing at all, and only discover in adulthood that ‘picture it in your mind’ was never a figure of speech. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to autism, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. If you’ve picked this up because someone you love is autistic — or because you’ve started to wonder about yourself — welcome. There’s nothing here that will make you feel got at. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to AuDHD (being both autistic and ADHD), kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Being both autistic and ADHD isn’t simply the two lists added together. It’s two nervous systems asking for opposite things at the same time. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to dyspraxia (DCD), kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Dyspraxia is often reduced to clumsiness, which misses most of it. It affects planning and sequencing — of movement, and frequently of everything else too. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to PDA (Pathological Demand Avoidance), kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. PDA describes a profile where everyday demands feel genuinely threatening — including demands the person actually wants to meet. It’s the one on this shelf where even the name is under active debate. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to dyscalculia, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Dyscalculia is dyslexia’s much less famous sibling, and it gets far less patience — because being bad at maths is treated as a personality quirk rather than a difference in wiring. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to selective (situational) mutism, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Often still called selective mutism, which is unfortunate — nothing about it is selected. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to anxiety in neurodivergent people, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Anxiety is often the result of being neurodivergent in a world that isn’t built for you, rather than a separate thing. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to sensory processing differences, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Most people know about the five senses. Sensory processing differences involve eight — and any of them can arrive far too loud, far too quiet, or unpredictably both. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to Tourette’s and tics, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Almost everything most people think they know about Tourette’s comes from one rare symptom being used as a punchline for forty years. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to OCD, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. OCD is probably the most misused word in this whole vocabulary. It isn’t about liking things tidy — it’s a distressing loop that the person desperately wants out of. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to depression and neurodivergence, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Depression among neurodivergent people is very often the accumulated cost of years of masking and unmet needs, rather than something arriving out of nowhere. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to bipolar, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Bipolar is a difference in how the brain regulates mood and energy — not moodiness, and not a personality flaw. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to BPD / EUPD, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Few labels carry as much unfair stigma as this one, including from professionals who should know better. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to complex PTSD (CPTSD), kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Complex PTSD comes from harm that repeated over time, usually when you were too young or too trapped to leave. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to alexithymia, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. Alexithymia isn’t the absence of feelings. It’s having them at full strength with no reliable way to identify or name them. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to misophonia, kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. If certain small sounds provoke instant, disproportionate rage or panic in you, you are not being difficult and you are far from alone. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.

A free, two-page, plain-English guide to face blindness (prosopagnosia), kind and jargon-free, to hand to parents, carers, grandparents and staff. If you’ve ever walked past your own colleague, or failed to recognise a friend out of context, and quietly built a life around covering for it — there’s a name for that. Page one explains it in plain words, what it can feel like from the inside, and what people often get wrong, with a “the assumption / what’s actually going on” table. Page two covers the strengths that often come with it and what actually helps. Useful for SENCOs, pastoral teams and teachers who want something gentle to give a family, or for staff CPD. Written by a neurodivergent author. A friendly explainer, not a diagnostic tool or medical advice. Free to print, copy and share. This is one of 23 Pond Guides; all 23 in one file are also in my Tes shop.