Sensitive Kid Travel Kit
As The Littles Grow

Travel with your sensitive kid

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.

Kelsey Brown, MA, CCC-SLPSpeech Pathologist + Highly Sensitive Person + Homeschooling Mom of 4
How strong is the research? Strong Moderate Emerging Resource

    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.