Nest & Nurture
About the app
Everything you need to advocate for your child, in one calm place.
Nest & Nurture is built for parents of autistic children — the exhausting days, the paperwork, the waitlists and the phone calls. Every tool inside is practical, gentle and free to use, with no clinical jargon and no login required.
What's inside
The tools families actually reach for in a hard moment, organized around your child — not around forms.
Meltdown Rescue
A one-tap calm-down screen with breathing, heavy work and gentle scripts — plus a Tantrum vs. Meltdown guide so you know what you're actually dealing with.
Child Sensory Blueprint
Your child's triggers, calming anchors and early warning signs on one card — printable as a caregiver pass for sitters, teachers and family.
Visual Routines & Boards
Morning, after-school and bedtime schedule cards, First/Then boards and a transition timer your child can actually follow.
Tap-to-Speak Tiles
Simple picture-to-speech tiles for the hard moments, when words are too much.
All About Me Child Pass
A five-minute wizard that builds a clean one-page care guide for teachers, with a doctor/IEP export from your own observations.
Sensory Mealtime & Food Comfort
Safe plate setup, texture filters, gentle mealtime scripts and a food-comfort log that tracks what your child actually tries.
Benefits & Waiver Roadmap
State-by-state Medicaid and waiver guides with official application links, step-by-step checklists and exact phone scripts for the interest-list call.
Daycare Tour Guide
The exact questions to ask directors about inclusion, safety, elopement and meltdowns — with a scorecard to compare visits side by side.
Emergency & Offline Card
Your child's photo, triggers, calming approach and your phone numbers — saved on this device and openable with no signal.
Survival Guides & Social Stories
Behavior decoder, hygiene step-ladders, potty toolkit, dressing checklist and four-panel social stories for everyday transitions.
Parent Community
A quiet, moderated space to share what's working with other parents walking the same road.
How it works
1
Open the toolkit
No account needed. Fill in your child's blueprint and it shapes every suggestion, from routines to outing plans.
2
Save on your device
What you enter stays on this phone — photos, logs and emergency details included. Sign in only if you want backup across devices.
3
Share when you're ready
Print caregiver passes, export doctor and IEP summaries, or send a read-only snapshot to a sitter — always by your choice.
Free core, optional Plus
Every de-escalation, routine and safety tool is free, forever, with no login. Optional Plus ($6.99/month or $49/year) adds printable PDF bundles, extra child profiles, encrypted document backup and extended caregiver passes — and cancelling removes the extras immediately, with no refund of unused time.
Nest & Nurture is practical support, not medical care. For anything urgent, call your child's provider, 988 or 911. Guidance is drawn from public clinical sources and is never a diagnosis.