Description
A Workbook For Siblings Of Children With Disabilities — In Their Own Words. With Two Age-Appropriate Versions: Ages 6–10 And Ages 11–16.
Siblings of children with disabilities often grow up a little early. They share attention, they help out, and they absorb a lot of complex feelings — frequently without anyone stopping to ask how they are doing. Most resources are written for parents. This Sibling Support Workbook is written for the siblings themselves. It gives brothers and sisters a space that is entirely their own — with age-appropriate prompts, feelings words, and family conversation starters, all built around their experience, not their sibling’s.
What’s Inside
The Sibling Support Workbook is a 46-page printable workbook with two age-appropriate versions and shared family sections:
- For Families: How to Use This — a guide for the grown-ups on offering the workbook well and receiving what a child shares
- Ages 6–10 Version (Sections 2–4) — feelings & home life (feelings words, prompts, things that help when feelings are big), questions I have (a safe place for questions, and who to ask), what I love & what’s hard (including “things I wish my family knew” and asking for time and attention)
- Ages 11–16 Version (Sections 5–7) — complex feelings (the full range, including the hard ones, with the guilt lifted off them), school & friends (the social side, what to share, handling embarrassment, finding people who get it), looking forward (their future, their identity, their own hopes and goals)
- Family Conversation Starters — gentle ways for the whole family to open these conversations, from both directions
- When to Talk to a Counselor — a warm guide to recognizing when more support would help
Each age version includes feelings vocabulary pages, journal prompts about home life, a coping strategy library, “things I wish my family knew” pages, and an “asking for time and attention” worksheet.
This Sibling Support Workbook Is For…
- Brothers and sisters of children with disabilities, ages 6–16
- Parents and caregivers who want to support their other children
- Family therapists and counselors
- Sibling support group leaders
What Makes This Workbook Different
- It’s written to the sibling. Not to the parent. The child reads warm, age-appropriate language addressed directly to them.
- Two real versions. Ages 6–10 and ages 11–16 are written in genuinely different voices, developmentally matched — not one version with the font resized.
- Built around their experience. This workbook is about the brother or sister doing it — their feelings, their questions, their life — not about their sibling with a disability.
- It makes every feeling safe. Jealousy, resentment, embarrassment — the workbook names these as normal sibling feelings and explicitly lifts the guilt that so often comes with them.
- It keeps the child a child. It gently pushes back on the over-responsibility siblings often carry — their job is to be a kid, not a co-parent.
- It builds bridges, not walls. The “things I wish my family knew” pages and conversation starters lead toward family communication. The workbook always points children toward trusted adults — never away from them.
A Note On What This Sibling Support Workbook Is — And Isn’t
This is a supportive workbook — not therapy, counseling, or medical advice. It’s a caring space for a child to reflect and a family to connect. It doesn’t diagnose or treat anything and doesn’t replace counselors, therapists, or doctors. Section 9 helps families recognize when more support would help, framed warmly — because wanting extra support is a sign of good sense, not weakness.
Part Of The Family Life Bundle
The Sibling Support Workbook is part of the Family Life Bundle ($49), which gathers AmeriDisability resources for families raising children with disabilities — because supporting a child with a disability means supporting every child in the family.
The Bottom Line
Every child in your family deserves to feel seen. This workbook makes sure the brothers and sisters do, too.
$15 — instant printable PDF workbook. 46 pages, two age-appropriate versions.
