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My Autism Navigator is a place to support you as you learn strategies to support your child’s learning in everyday activities. You will find ideas to inspire you each day along with a journal for you to enter text and photos to track little successes to capture your child’s changes. You will also find answers to Frequently Asked Questions and a Wellness Center that offers suggestions for taking care of you. My Autism Navigator is designed for families of children 1 to 8 years of age who are concerned about their child’s social communication development, challenging behavior, early signs of autism, or have a child diagnosed with autism. It’s also for their intervention or educational team, with more features coming soon. My Autism Navigator is a companion to our Autism Navigator How-To Guide for Families online course. You can access both from anywhere, anytime. You can earn awards for journaling, watching videos in the How-To Guide course, and attending How-To Guide webinars. Here are the sections in My Autism Navigator with a brief description of each. See sections below for more details and how to enroll in the How-To Guide for Families. • Ideas to Inspire — Get a new message each day with an idea to inspire you to support your child learning something new in your everyday activities. You can make journal entries to save memories of everyday moments. • My Journal — Make a journal entry about a new productive role, a new gesture, sound, or word, a new activity your child participated in, or a moment where you expected more and got more. You can snap a photo and attach it to your journal entry. Use My Journal to save memories of everyday moments and capture your child changing from day to day and week to week. At this time, journaling is for parents only. Journaling for professionals is coming soon. • Wellness Center: Taking Care of You — It’s important that you take care of yourself, so you can take care of your family. Balancing all the demands you face can be so challenging. The Wellness Center will offer you some ideas and web links to help you take care of yourself. • Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) — Find answers to frequently asked questions about early detection of communication delay and autism, how autism impacts learning and development, and evidence-based strategies to support learning in everyday activities. • My Awards — Earn awards for journaling, watching videos, completing Guide Books, and sharing on social media.