YOUR SPECIAL CHILD
Maybe having someone to help siblings with
homework or start dinner would help allevi-
ate stress.

“Holidays are always really stressful,”
she says. Family members can help simply
by allowing parents of a child with a dis-
ability to eat a meal. During dinner, family
members could alternate “taking the child
for a walk in the stroller or even to the
other room to read a book,” she suggests.

Small gestures can add up to real stress how.” She suggests parents plan or come up
relief, and sometimes, “you’ve just got to with suggestions for activities they know
take help in aggregate.”
their child can enjoy with another child or
accompany their child to drop-off playdates
until the other family knows the child well
Model inclusion
When people ask Anna F. how they can help, enough to feel comfortable.

Offering concrete, easy ways with instruc-
she says, “What I’d like is for people to invite
tions to access your family’s world makes it
[my child] over for a drop-off play date.”
Shepley says that while many “people “a lot less overwhelming” for the potential
want to be inclusive, they don’t always know helper, she says. “Specific lists do matter.” T
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Small gestures can add
up to real stress relief, and
sometimes, “you’ve just got
to take help in aggregate.”
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