188 - Specialist holiday support for family with autistic children - Dec 2024

This week we have made a timely donation to help a family through the Christmas holidays.  One of our members asked us to help with some much needed support for a family with 3 kids, 2 of whom are autistic. The youngest is particularly sensitive and dysregulated, and managing their behaviour is hard.


Having received some specialist support the family have been advised to get some resources for the kids to help them feel calmer - headphones, weighted blankets and boxing equipment. 


Dad works 12 hours shifts but they're still struggling to pay the bills, so buying extras like these just is not possible for them.


The local organisation supporting the family also told us the mum really needs some specialist support to help her over the next 2 weeks, and want to provide her with a few hours of specialist PA support too. 


Christmas is such an exciting time for so many, but for many families with autistic children it can often be the worst school holiday to cope with.  For this family, things at home are considerably more stressful this year than last - we hope this additional support will help them manage things a little better.


It is another thoughtful nomination that we are only too happy to support and send £500 to help with the additional costs involved.


As always a huge thank you to everyone for your continued support of 500 together.  We have one more donation to tell you about next week before the end of the year.  


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