Tip 1 as a tool. Fill in your trip, add real photos if you have them, and read the story together every night for a week before you go.
Ten research-backed tips for trips with highly sensitive and neurodivergent kids, a trip story builder to preview the journey together, a picture schedule for travel day, and a packing list that sorts itself for car or plane.
Tip 2 as a tool. Build the day in pictures, then hand your child the phone. They see what's happening now, what comes next, and tap when each step is done.
No steps yet. Tap a picture or start from Car day or Plane day.
The trip story builder, travel day schedule, and packing list are yours free. Tell me where to send your travel tips and everything unlocks on this device.
Tip 1 as a tool. Fill in your trip, add real photos if you have them, and read the story together every night for a week before you go.
A note on the research. Much of the sensory travel research studies autistic children. Highly sensitive kids and autistic kids overlap in some ways and differ in others, so each tip says who was studied. Where the evidence is thin, we say so.
Highly sensitive child trait background: Aron, E. N., & Aron, A. (1997). Sensory-processing sensitivity and its relation to introversion and emotionality. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.73.2.345
This guide is education, not medical advice. Your child's care team knows your child best.