'What helps?' guides
The PDA Society created these ‘What helps?’ guides to provide helpful and practical information to make life easier for PDAers and those around them. If you’re new to PDA, we recommend starting with the ‘PDA approaches’ section. Here, you’ll find essential adjustments in thinking and acting that can make most situations easier.
The rest of our information is divided into sections based on age and the type of challenges you may be facing.
PDA approaches
The PDA Society created these ‘What helps?’ guides to provide helpful and practical information to make life easier for PDAers and those around them.
Childhood
Adulthood
Includes information for PDA adults, and for people supporting them. This includes relationships, work, money, travel, leisure, and parenting as a PDAer.
Professional roles
Below, you’ll find an overview of each section with links to the full list of guides, we update and add to these guides all the time so if there is something you think we should cover please let us know here.
PDA approaches
This section provides an overview of core PDA approaches that can help people navigate everyday challenges. It talks about how to build trusting relationships, why a low arousal approach can help, and the difference being flexible makes.
Childhood
Adulthood
Professional roles
Understanding professionals' roles
For a deeper dive into effective practices, our Research and professional practice section showcases how professionals can implement these strategies.
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