Now What

Now What?

A Parent Guide and Workbook for Navigating a New Autism Diagnosis

A new autism diagnosis can leave you overwhelmed, emotional, and buried in acronyms no one explains. Now What? is a warm, practical starting point created by a parent who has been there.

This digital guide and workbook helps you understand what may come next without trying to figure everything out at once. Inside, you’ll find honest guidance, usable scripts, reflection pages, checklists, and practical tools to help you advocate for your child and make sense of the systems around you.

Inside the guide:

• Understanding the diagnosis without panic or shame
• A Next Steps Map for figuring out where to begin
• The eight senses and a sensory profile worksheet
• IEP, therapy, school, and real-life family scripts
• Communication and AAC
• Sleep and toileting support
• Wandering and safety planning
• Finding trustworthy community and resources
• Parent self-care
• National service-navigation guidance, plus a clearly marked California benefits section
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Written by Samantha Hoey Nelson, founder of Wonderkidz LA

and mom of three girls, including identical autistic twins.

Written by a parent. For parents.

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Created as a parent educational tool. Not medical, legal, therapeutic, financial, or educational advice.