Abley’s Resources publishes practical guidance for parents, educators and practitioners supporting children with sensory and regulation needs in India. These guidelines describe what we publish, what we will not publish, how we check it, and what we promise the people who read it.
Who we are writing for
Our reader is usually a parent or carer at the end of a long day, looking for something they can try tomorrow morning. Sometimes they are a teacher with thirty children and one who cannot sit still, or an occupational therapist looking for something to hand a family. We write for all three, and when they pull in different directions we write for the parent.
Everything we publish should survive one test: could a tired person read it once and know what to do next?
What we publish
We publish into six sections, and a piece earns its place by belonging clearly to one of them.
- Understanding Sensory — how sensory processing and regulation work, explained without jargon. What a behaviour might be telling you. Why a child covers their ears, chews their sleeve, or cannot stay in their chair.
- Evidence Explained — what the research actually says about a popular approach, product or claim, including when the honest answer is that nobody knows yet.
- At Home — routines, mealtimes, bedtimes, siblings, travel, festivals. The ordinary hours, made more workable.
- At School — classroom strategies, talking with teachers, accommodations, exam arrangements, and the Indian school system as families actually meet it.
- Spaces & Equipment — setting up a corner, a room or a classroom; choosing and using equipment; what is worth the money and what is not.
- For Practitioners — clinical practice, case discussion, assessment, professional development and service design, written for colleagues rather than families.
Within those sections we want first-person experience, practitioner know-how, clear explainers, and honest reviews. A piece that is only a personal story is welcome. A piece that is only a summary of research is welcome. A piece that is neither is usually an advertisement.
What we do not publish
These are not preferences. A piece that does any of the following will not run, however well written it is.
- Claims to cure, reverse, heal or treat. We do not publish anything saying a diet, supplement, device, programme or therapy cures or reverses a condition, or that a child can be made to stop being who they are.
- Guarantees. No “proven”, “miracle”, “works for every child”, no promised timeline for a result.
- Diagnosis by article. We do not publish checklists or quizzes framed as a way to find out whether your child has something. We explain what to notice and who to ask.
- Anything that replaces a clinician. Dosages, medication advice, instructions to stop or start a medical treatment, or advice to delay seeing a doctor.
- Fear as a persuasion device. No “the window is closing”, no implication that a parent has already failed, no before-and-after framing of a child.
- Undisclosed commercial content. A piece written to sell a named product, clinic or course, presented as independent advice.
- Anything that identifies a child without consent, or that holds a child up as a cautionary example.
- Stigmatising or pitying language about disabled and neurodivergent people, including well-meant versions of it.
Several of these also breach the advertising policies of the platforms we rely on to reach families. Keeping to them is not only an ethical position; it is what keeps the site able to do its job.
How we label evidence
Every piece carries an evidence label, chosen by the author and confirmed by the editor. The label sits with the byline, so a reader knows what kind of thing they are reading before they act on it.
- Strong — multiple good studies point the same way, or a professional body recommends it.
- Moderate — some good studies, broadly consistent, with gaps.
- Early — promising, but the research is small, short or preliminary.
- Mixed — studies disagree, or the question is genuinely contested.
- Lived or clinical experience — this is what happened to me, or what I see in my practice. No research claim is being made.
The last of these is a complete answer, not a lesser one. Much of the most useful material on this site is somebody describing what worked in their own home. What we will not accept is experience dressed up as evidence: if you choose strong, moderate, early or mixed, you must give us the sources, and we read them.
We prefer sources relevant to India, and we prefer peer-reviewed research, government guidance and professional-body statements over news coverage of research. A press release is not a source.
Language
We write about sensory and regulation needs, supports and skills, rather than deficits to be corrected. We describe what a child finds hard and what helps, in plain words.
On identity language we follow the preferences of the disabled and neurodivergent communities, and we respect an author’s own choice about how they describe themselves or their family. We avoid “cure”, “fix”, “suffers from” and “normal”. We describe our own products as aids for regulation and skill-building, never as treatments.
We write in Indian English, and we use the words families here actually use — including the local ones — rather than importing an American vocabulary wholesale.
How a piece is reviewed
Every submission is read by an editor. A piece that gives health, developmental or therapy guidance is additionally read by a qualified occupational therapist or a relevant clinician before it is published, and that reviewer is named on the page where they agree to be named.
We check the claims against the sources given, the evidence label against the claims, and the language against this document. We edit for clarity and length, and we will come back to you with anything substantive rather than quietly changing your meaning. A contributed piece remains the author’s own experience and view.
We reply to every submission within fifteen working days, whether or not we can publish it.
Children’s privacy
Stories about real children are published only with the consent of a parent or guardian, and we ask authors to remove details that would identify a child. Photographs of children are used only with written permission. A family can ask us to take a piece down or remove identifying details at any time, and we will do it without asking why.
Where a child is old enough to have a view, we ask authors to have asked them.
Independence, sponsorship and conflicts
Editorial decisions are made independently of the Abley’s store. Product links appear only where the advice calls for a tool, and our Advertising Policy explains how sponsorship and affiliate links are disclosed.
Contributors must tell us about anything that could look like an interest in what they are writing about: a product they sell, a clinic they own, a course they run, a company that funded their research. We will usually still publish, with the interest stated on the page. What we will not do is discover it afterwards.
We do not accept payment for coverage, and we do not let a sponsor see a piece before it runs.
Assistance from AI tools
Use a tool to tidy your grammar or shape an outline if it helps you get started. But the experience, the judgement and the claims must be yours, and you are answerable for every fact in the piece. We do not publish generated articles, and a piece whose sources do not exist — a common failure of these tools — ends the review.
Accuracy, dates and corrections
Facts that change — scheme amounts, exam accommodations, eligibility rules, festival dates — are verified before publication and date-stamped. Seasonal guides are updated on the same page each year rather than republished.
If you find an error, write to team@ableys.in. We correct the page and note the correction at the bottom of it. Significant corrections are dated and described; we do not quietly amend and move on.
Rights, credit and payment
You keep the copyright in what you write. By submitting, you give us a non-exclusive right to edit it for clarity and publish it on this site, and to link to it from our newsletter and social channels. You are free to republish it elsewhere after it appears here; we ask only that you link back.
Every contributed piece carries the author’s name, role and a short bio, and practitioners may have their registration or council number shown. We do not currently pay for contributions, and we say so plainly rather than leaving it to be discovered.
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