A quiet library for 11pm parents.

197 therapist-informed social stories, AAC overlays, and printables for families of nonverbal autistic children. You’re not alone, and you’re not googling in vain.

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Just got the diagnosis?

A quiet place to stand for the first 72 hours. Three essays, a printable for the fridge, and a daily email for your first thirty days.

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Hand-picked stories for the moments parents come looking for first.

What to do after my autistic child has a meltdown

Meltdown just ended; parent wants repair script.

How to help my nonverbal autistic child fall asleep

Child up till 1am; parent exhausted.

How to prepare my autistic child for a haircut without a meltdown

Parent planning Sunday haircut, child has screamed the last 3 times.

Using Avaz at the doctor's office

Medical communication.

What if my child's Avaz dies in public?

Parent anxiety about AAC failure.

My autistic child doesn't ask for help — how to teach

Stuck in silence; parent teaching to request.

Browse by moment

Every story sits in one of these 17 categories. Each category has its own page.

Meltdowns, recovery, calming down, overwhelm.

Brushing teeth, nail clipping, haircuts, bedtime.

Doctor visits, vaccines, dentist, X-rays, meds.

New foods, restaurants, feeding challenges.

Asking for help, saying no, naming feelings.

Using Avaz in real moments — across situations.

Community & outings

Shops, parks, weddings, temples, public spaces.

School & learning

Classroom, substitutes, schedule changes, homework.

Social situations

Friends, play dates, teasing, group dynamics.

Birthdays, visitors, travel, new siblings.

Crossing roads, strangers, elopement, emergencies.

Body sensations

Pain, hunger, tiredness — reading body signals.

Pujas, joint-family homes, auto-rickshaws, festivals.

What to do in the first 48 hours. What to ignore for a month.

Written to you, not about your child. Grief, blame, the life you didn't expect.

After-me planning

UDID, Niramaya, guardianship, the letters you haven't written yet.

Dads, siblings, grandparents

The rest of the family — what they carry, what they need, what they can do.

A quiet alcove · poetry

Seven couplets of Iqbal, gently read for the parent flying a different sky — something to keep nearby for the hard nights.

Step outside · the natural world

A wandering field guide to the trees of the world — hundreds of species from every continent with photos, names, and stories, an interactive world map, a guess-the-tree game, and a camera that identifies a tree from a photo. Many neurodivergent children find deep calm and delight in nature; this is a quiet way to wander it together.

What you get with every story

Every Moonpath story is written for a specific moment a parent might Google at midnight. Each comes with:

A plain-language article on what’s really happening and what to try tonight
A 5-panel social story your child can read with you (when available)
A printable PDF for the fridge
AAC vocabulary sheets you can load straight into Avaz, TouchChat, or Proloquo2Go

If you want to reach us, write to hello@moonpath.in. If you’re a therapist, a parent with a story you want told, or an AAC user yourself — we especially want to hear from you.

Spot something off on any page?

A wrong AAC symbol, an article that doesn’t match your therapist’s advice, a cultural detail that lands wrong — we want to hear it. Every page has a Report a gap link at the bottom, and we fix issues within a week.

Tell us what’s off →