AUTISM, EVERYDAY LIFE & PARTICIPATION
Supporting Meaningful Participation Within Everyday Life
Living & Learning Aligned focuses on how parents, caregivers, and support providers influence participation across family, home, school, community, and lifespan settings.
Everyday life shapes participation. Adults shape everyday life.
Parents Support
Participation
This is about helping autistic individuals participate meaningfully in life,
and helping parents intentionally support that participation.
Parents are the one constant across childhood and adulthood.
Living & Learning Aligned equips parents to intentionally support participation within family life, collaborate with professionals, and build lifelong participation through everyday living & learning.
Guiding Everyday Family Life
Parents guide participation through everyday routines, activities, and meaningful moments.
Living & Learning Aligned equips parents to intentionally shape everyday moments, routines, and activities in ways that reflect their family's values and support meaningful participation.
Collaborating for Learning
Parents collaborate with behavior analysts, teachers, therapists, and other instructional professionals.
Living & Learning Aligned equips parents to contribute to & learn from professional instruction, connecting skills taught through evidence-based practices to meaningful participation in everyday life.
Building Lifelong Participation
Parents help build lifelong participation by creating meaningful opportunities for growing responsibility, agency, and autonomy within everyday life.
Living & Learning Aligned equips parents to continue building participation across childhood and adulthood, helping responsibility, agency, and autonomy grow through meaningful everyday experiences.
Make the Mindset Shift
Focus on your influence and their participation within everyday moments.
Follow the Simple Process
Use everyday family routines, activities, and meaningful moments to shape participation.
Collaborate
Align skills, supports, and everyday life so learning becomes meaningful within everyday life.
Skills may be taught in instructional settings,
but Participation is learned through everyday life experiences.
Through everyday routines, interactions, opportunities and expectations, adults, parents & other providers, shape the real-life environments where participation develops and learning becomes meaningful.
Participation looks different for every individual.
Participation involves supporting a person's interests, abilities, needs, and ways of engaging within everyday life, so participation becomes meaningful, accessible, and personally relevant.
Living & Learning Aligned focuses on helping autistic individuals participate meaningfully in life — and helping adults intentionally support that participation across home, community, and lifespan settings.