Parents of children with autism can often feel out of their depth when it comes to nurturing their child's learning and development. This book helps parents to make sense of the baffling array of educational interventions available, showing how to adapt different strategies to meet the specific needs of their child, including those with moderate to severe autism.

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Parents of children with autism can often feel out of their depth when it comes to nurturing their child's learning and development. This book helps parents to make sense of the baffling array of educational interventions available, showing how to adapt different strategies to meet the specific needs of their child, including those with moderate to severe autism. Guided by love, faith and unwavering resolve, Joyce Show offers practical advice based on her experiences as both a mother and a physician. She takes the reader by the hand through all the steps of cognitive, social, and emotional development from initial engagement to abstract thinking, and provides straightforward primers for popular interventions such as Floortime and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA). Parents will learn how to motivate play, build up communication, deal with challenging behaviors, and teach important everyday life skills, while growing in a trusting relationship with their child. This book offers encouragement and guidance to the parents of any child on the autism spectrum whether high or low functioning, as well as the teachers, therapists, family members, and friends who support them.

2012, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 400pp

Acknowledgments. A Note to the Reader. Introduction. 1. What's Wrong with My Child? 2. Attitude First. 3. Observation – The Essential Starting Point. 4. Sensory Integration. 5. Motor Planning. 6. Engaging Your Child: How to Get Your Child to Play with You. 7. Building Motivation. 8. Creating a Strategy for Cognitive Development. 9. Developing a Means of Communication. 10. Teaching Non-Verbal Communication. 11. Fundamental Stages of Emotional and Social Development. 12. Higher Cognitive Development: Moving into Abstract Thinking. 13. Advanced Social and Emotional Development: Exploring Inner Worlds. 14. Learning to Learn, It's a Beautiful Journey. 15. Challenging Behaviors. 16. Self-Injury and Aggression. 17. Working on Self-Help Skills and Making Use of Routines. 18. How Can I Do This? Conclusion. Glossary. References. Index.