Welcome to support essentials
Supporting Autism, PDA, and Your Neurodiverse Home
Support Essentials is here to support you and your family to work positively with your child’s neurodiversity by sharing knowledge and experience from other parents of neurodiverse kids.
Featured Articles
Autism, Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), and the NDIS are our regular topics of discussion.

The PDA Glossary of Terms
Use this PDA glossary of terms to help you learn more about Pathological Demand Avoidance and its associated expressions.

How to Discover Your Child’s Autism Behavioural Profile and 4 Reasons Why You Should
Learn about the different profiles of Autism including how to discover your child’s Autism behavioural profile and why it’s important you do.

PDA and the Low Demand Approach: Bad Parenting? Or Harder than it Seems?
What is the low demand approach for PDA and why is it increasingly being implemented by Parents of PDA children?
Topics of Conversation

Autism
Thought-provoking articles incorporating shared knowledge and expertise from parents of autistic kids.

PDA
Raising awareness of Pathological Demand Avoidance, an emergent behavioural profile of Autism.

The NDIS
Autism-specific NDIS tutorials and guides to help you access essential supports.