Autism Disorder

Unlock the full potential of your child with autism using simple, evidence-based techniques – even if you're feeling overwhelmed by a new diagnosis or challenges as your child grows! Are you navigating the challenges of autism and looking for practical solutions? You’re not alone. This guide offers clear, actionable strategies to help your child thrive and make everyday life smoother for your family.

On National Divorce Day, my husband Steve and I decide to break up. After years of depression and mood swings (him) and hope and defeat (me) enough is, quite frankly, enough. Until a chance remark triggers a chain of events leading to Steve’s diagnosis of ADHD and autism. What follows is a year of discovery, denial, medication and salvation as we, our teenagers and even our beloved Golden Retriever, Margot, set out to embrace this new reality. But will my plan to start an amateur honesty box business from our tiny Devon village be the catalyst to bring us together, or drive us further apart?

Are you: * wondering why low muscle tone creates more potty training challenges? * worried that your child's speech issues or behavioral problems with further delay training? * concerned that you may not have the right potty seat or other equipment? * frustrated with books that are long on philosophy but short on useful strategies? The Practical Guide to Toilet Training your Child With Low Muscle Tone was written for you! This book, written by a pediatric occupational therapist with over 20 years of experience, explains the multi-modal reasons why low tone creates so many toilet training ...

Feeling lost with an autistic loved one? This audiobook will enable you to have a better understanding of the behavior and inner feelings of a child with special needs, which will provide you with the information to manage and cope with the situation effectively with minimal stress for the family. With this audiobook, parents and families will be able to ease into the autism circumstances and move on with life optimistically.

Autism, or Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by dierences in social communication and interaction, as well as restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, or activities. Neurodiversity, on the other hand, recognizes and celebrates the natural variations in human brain wiring, including autism, as a valid and valuable form of diversity.

Does raising an autistic daughter feel overwhelming? Are you searching for resources tailored to the unique challenges and strengths of girls with autism? You’re not alone—and now, you have a guide just for you. Raising An Empowered Autistic Daughter is your practical roadmap to fostering confidence, independence, and resilience in your daughter while equipping you with tools to support her at every stage.

Autistisch, weiblich, stark. Autistische Frauen und Mädchen erhalten oft eine sehr späte Diagnose, denn ihre Symptome sind auf den ersten Blick unauffällig und werden häufig missinterpretiert. "Ich bin anders, ich bin falsch." – diesen schmerzhaften Glaubenssatz verinnerlichen viele Autistinnen schon früh. Sie kämpfen gegen starke Selbstzweifel und können psychische Folgeerkrankungen entwickeln. Dieses Hörbuch hilft ihnen, sich selbst besser zu verstehen und mit Belastungen umzugehen.

Does your child have a friend, family member, or classmate who has autism? Would you like your child or the children in your classroom to understand more about autism? Are you looking for an engaging way to start a dialogue about autism? This book uses a simple ABC format to teach about autism. This book teaches, from a child's perspective, the typical traits that many people with autism share.

Travis Breeding has never been like others. Growing up, he just couldn't seem to fit in with anyone and didn't understand how socializing worked. He couldn't understand why people didn't like him. Why did everyone think he was so weird or creepy or psycho? Was he? When he finally learned he has Asperger's, it wasn't quite the solution he longed for. He didn't want to accept it. But once he embraced it, he realized he could begin making changes that could someday lead to living the life he wants: one that includes a family and good friends. And even more, he could help others just like him.

Science helps us to understand ourselves in a world where we often feel like strangers - but what we know about the world around us, what has already been explored and discovered is only half of science's story. Unexplained will explore the frontier between what we do and don't know about the world: where knowledge meets mystery, complexity overwhelms certainty, and the vastness of our universe unspools the logic of science's established laws. Dr Camilla Pang will teach you to embrace the beauty in the unexplained and fall in love with the search for unknown answers.

In the early 1960s, Massachusetts writer and homemaker Clara Park and her husband took their three-year-old daughter, Jessy, to a specialist after noticing that she avoided connection with others. Following the conventional wisdom of the time, the psychiatrist diagnosed Jessy with autism and blamed Clara for Jessy’s isolation. Experts claimed Clara was the prototypical “refrigerator mother,” a cold, intellectual parent who starved her children of the natural affection they needed to develop properly.

Mike had managed to achieve his childhood dream of becoming a stand-up comedian in the San Francisco comedy scene of the 1980s. He was appearing on television and rubbing shoulders with the big stars of the day. His future was bright and the last thing he needed was a woman to come along who would shake his ideas of what true happiness was. But, come along she did, daring him to achieve something even greater than fame and fortune.

Eu sou a mãe que todo mundo admira, mas ninguém quer ser, e nestas páginas vou te dar todas as orientações que eu gostaria de ter recebido quando o autismo bateu na minha porta. Também vou te dar ferramentas necessárias em forma de conhecimento, para te ajudar a nadar nesse imenso oceano azul chamado autismo. Você vai descobrir o quanto, mesmo cercada de desafios, a maternidade, independentemente de ser atípica ou não, pode ser extraordinária e maravilhosa.

Many of us have made our lives so noisy, overwhelming, sensory craving and data driven that we have somehow missed the most fundamental part about ourselves and our lives. Learning how to work with every process, every situation, every relationship intuitively; learning to love what is, to let go, to have faith and find stillness; to foster one’s intuition and become creative in our own lives is something we can all achieve.

Waiting for the Light Bulb is a true story that follows the life of a little girl over the course of 10 years. Told from a mother’s perspective, it begins with a pregnancy, high hopes and dreams for the future but as diagnoses are made the fear of the unknown is tangible. Follow a determined, gritty mother as she navigates the world with a daughter who has an incredibly unique subset of autism. Listen as she learns how to maneuver her way through medical mediocrity, broken public school systems, past stigmas and preconceived notions of what a special needs child is like.

Criar a un niño con autismo conlleva desafíos únicos, pero también ofrece inmensas recompensas. Esta guía te proporciona los conocimientos y las estrategias para ayudar a tu hijo no solo a desenvolverse en la vida, sino a prosperar de verdad. ¿Luchas con obstáculos diarios, te preocupas por el futuro de tu hijo o te sientes abrumado por las constantes exigencias del cuidado del autismo? No estás solo. Muchos padres y cuidadores comparten estas preocupaciones, pero con el apoyo adecuado, puede crear una vida plena y feliz para su hijo.

Asperger’s Syndrome is sometimes called high-functioning autism. The premise of this definition will be explained in this book, detailing the various aspect of the disorder, as well as possibilities and limitations. For example, we will talk about the most important signs of Asperger’s Syndrome in adults, how to determine if someone has it, or if it’s more related to ADHD, and how to treat those symptoms.

Can You Hear Me Now? is a moving call to action based on author Pamela Furr's daily struggles and responsibilities as the mother of an autistic child and the founder of Puzzle Box Academy, a private school based in Florida dedicated to supporting children with autism. The book provides guidance, support, and advocacy for parents navigating the challenges of raising children with autism.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in 44 children have been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and 17 percent of children aged three to 17 have been diagnosed with developmental disabilities. In Autism with a Side of Sushi, author Kuri Yasuno reflects on her journey as a mother of a child on the spectrum. Her relatable accounts of both circumventing situations of public ignorance and raising awareness will cause you to rejoice and laugh at the same time.

When the inner ear's ability to sense sound and movement breaks down during early life, there can be wide-ranging developmental consequences. Sound Advice integrates the personal stories of a pediatric occupational therapist with current science on why some children struggle to learn and adapt.