human strong WORKSHOP SERIES

PARENTING SERIES 2026

Supporting Your Autistic Child with Emotions, Relationships and In School

How this Workshop Can Help

This 6 week workshop course is designed to support parents and caregivers who have children with autism. This workshop provides strategies and skills that parents and caregivers may use to enhance their child’s experience around dealing with high emotions, support children’s social development with peers and provide practical academic strategies to navigate learning challenges.

Week 1 - Understanding child’s unique strengths and traits. How to recognize signs of needing support and emotional, relational and academic strategies at a glance

Week 2 - Intro to Emotions. This week’s content will focus on understanding and recognizing emotional needs for children with autism, how to navigate challenging emotional situations, coping strategies to ensure healthy boundaries and help children express their emotions in a healthy way.

Week 3 - Strategies to Support Emotional Development

Week 4 - Intro to Relationships and Social Development. This week’s content will focus on supporting children with building healthy friendships, enhance social connection and communication strategies

Week 5 - Relationships and Social Development Strategies.

Week 6 - Academics & Q & A Panel. This week’s content will focus on academic study skills, study tools and various learning style strategies for autistic children tailored to their learning needs. Parents will have an opportunity to ask questions at the end of the workshop

What is Autism?
A lot of parents struggle with this question. They’ve been told by either a teacher or a doctor that their child has or may have ADHD. What’s important here is to not get hung up on a label but rather look at the symptoms. It is an inability to focus, concentrate effectively, have sustained attention, or have sustained self-control (always on the go or fidgeting/squirming). This can be more challenging in low-stimulation environments such as the classroom.

How it Makes You Feel as a Parent?
Create arguments over stupid, silly things and feel guilty because their child brings out the worst in them
Parents feel bad because they get so angry.
Feelings of love and closeness seem to be lost memories

How it Can Affect Your Family:
Erupt in arguments over tasks not done
Be in constant power struggles
Be in chaos
Seldom have fun
Constantly reminding the child
Create arguments over stupid, silly things

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Online workshops are open to all Human Strong users. Although the workshops can have limited seating, you're welcome to join as many workshops as you like. We value the community and encourage you to share this workshop with friend & family.

Meet the Workshop's Therapist:

Nathan Pillai
M.A. Psych.
Director of Bayridge Kids

Focus: Families, Children and Teens, Anxiety/Depression, Behavioral Issues, ADHD

I take a “whole”istic approach to helping children, adolescents, and families, where understanding the problem and developing treatment protocols look beyond what is seen in a presentation of a client, but rather to the environment around them and their unique understanding of it.

I have worked in the healthcare and mental health fields for the last 10 years including addictions therapy, adult, youth, and family counselling, trauma surgery, transfusion medicine, medical research, and healthcare manufacturing. These diverse but targeted realms of experience have produced my holistic approach to helping children and families.

Ultimately, I look beyond the usual checklist of problematic behaviours, focusing on the whole story and what exactly is happening in an individual’s life and how they are integrated into their personal environments. Whether a paradigm shift in parenting or a program to improve behavioural problems is needed, I find great satisfaction in making the goals of a family or child a reality.