Autism Child

The step-by-step guide discusses various aspects of how autism is perceived, explores how best to speak up for individual needs and introduces advocacy for the wider autistic community. Each step outlines one vital aspect of advocacy and allyship, such as emphasizing acceptance, avoiding assumptions and assuming competence. The advice and strategies laid out in this guide center the wisdom and experiences of autistic people and enable the listener to confidently speak up with insight and understanding.

Do you want to help your child with a disability live a more happy and fulfilling life? Raising kids with disabilities is hard, but this audiobook makes it a lot easier. There are many different kinds of disabilities. There are physical and mental disabilities; some disabilities are more visible and disabling than others, but all require an extra amount of attention and action, which can be very overwhelming for parents of a kid with a disability. This audiobook was made to make raising a kid with a disability easier for parents.

Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind his grand ambition has been his son Kai, who has autism. Raising Kai made Henry Markram question all that he thought he knew about neuroscience, and then inspired his groundbreaking research that would upend the conventional wisdom about autism, expressed in his now-famous theory of Intense World Syndrome.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Lasă-mă să-ţi aud glasul este povestea unei mame care a luptat şi a învins autismul. O carte memorabilă, pe cât de precis documentată, pe atât de bine scrisă. În lupta lor disperată pentru a-şi salva fiica, soţii Maurice pătrund în hăţişul termenilor medicali şi înfruntă coşmarul speranţelor false, al "vindecărilor miraculoase“ şi al acuzaţiilor supărătoare potrivit cărora ei sunt singurii vinovaţi de autismul lui Anne-Marie. În cele din urmă, salvarea fetiţei va veni din aplicarea unei terapii de modificare comportamentală.

Libera tu máximo potencial y alcanza el éxito con ideas prácticas para tu crecimiento personal y profesional, incluso si te has sentido incomprendido durante años. Esta guía empoderadora, diseñada específicamente para adultos autistas, abraza la neurodiversidad y celebra el rico mosaico de perspectivas y experiencias que conlleva.

For the parent of an autistic child, knowledge truly is power, as it helps one to understand how to approach the child and handle one's own mixed emotions.

Discover a heartfelt, practical, and empowering guide that transforms the chaos of life with autism into a journey of understanding, growth, and connection. In From Meltdowns to Miracles, a mother shares her deeply personal experiences, offering wisdom and encouragement to families navigating the challenges and triumphs of raising a child on the autism spectrum. This book goes beyond the diagnosis, diving into the everyday realities of sensory overloads, emotional outbursts, and navigating social expectations.

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neurological disorder (a "brain" condition) characterized by poor behavioral and social difficulties. This is a developmental condition that starts early in infancy and lasts for life. Autism spectrum disorder affects most facets of life. Cognitive (thinking and language) and social skills are usually impaired by growth relative to their disorder-free peers.

Parents of children with autism have so much to learn and to manage, it’s easy for them to feel alone and become emotionally drained. But there is a framework for making progress, whether the child is newly diagnosed or an adult. Now available in audiobook, reviewers call Responsible and Responsive Parenting in Autism: Between Now and Dreams a first-stop, must-listen for parents, family members and caregivers, one that is also eloquent and engaging.

Leigh Merryday Porch offers insight into how parents of children with autism can redefine hope in a world that often has a narrow view of what hope is supposed to look like for their kids. As an educator and expert on autism spectrum disorders as well as the mother of a son who is autistic, Porch knows well the pressure parents of special needs children feel to overcome any and all challenges their children face. According to Porch, we must write our own stories about what is possible for our kids and love them just as they are.

As autistic self-advocates, our personal stories hold a lot of power: they are sources of strength, tales of overcoming barriers and adversity, and a way for us to assert agency and receive the support we might need. But how do you actually disclose your diagnosis? How do you tell teachers, support staff, colleagues, friends, or anybody else about your disability and account for their varied reactions? Or, if you're a parent or ally, how do you tell the person you're supporting about their own neurodivergent identity and culture?

"Like most fathers, I'd dreamt of doing all sorts of things with my son. I had so many plans, but when I was told my son was autistic, those plans seemed more like a fantasy. Well, eight years after that dreadful diagnosis, I am writing this book to let every father know that your plans for you and your son can still be a reality. It's just the path that takes you there that has to be altered."

When you have a complete understanding of ASD and the challenges it presents, you can equip your child with all the tools they need to feel comfortable in their own skin, make connections with others, and follow the paths they need to take to achieve their dreams. This comprehensive guide to autism, designed specifically for parents in your situation, will cover everything you need to know to make sure your child has the best start in life.

After living through an emotionally turbulent journey of infertility and the birth of one son, Fabiana was thrilled to discover that she was pregnant again, this time with twins. She did not expect to encounter a tumultuous road until she was told that one of her twins had no chance of survival. Then, only weeks later, she gave birth prematurely. Her surviving twin spent months in a neonatal intensive care unit and later became a child with special needs. From Surviving to Thriving is about finding the joy; making the choice to see hope where others only see despair, pain, loss, and sorrow.

Brigitte shares stories that she applies to her guided practices to heal a mother's heart. She offers all mothers to become inspired to live more joyfully, no matter where they are on their autism journey. Joseph gives his own perspective and insightful views of what living with autism has been for him, and what we all can do to understand and help those like him.

No mundo de Caitlin, tudo é preto e branco. Qualquer coisa entre um e outro dá uma baita sensação de recreio no estômago e a obriga a fazer bicho de pelúcia. É isso que seu irmão, Devon, sempre tentou explicar às pessoas. Mas agora, depois do dia em que a vida desmoronou, seu pai, devastado, chora muito sem saber ao certo como lidar com isso. Ela quer ajudar o pai - a si mesma e todos a sua volta -, mas, sendo uma menina de dez anos de idade, autista, portadora da Síndrome de Asperger, ela não sabe como captar o sentido.

Are you struggling to understand your autistic child and their behaviour? Are you looking for ideas for how to best approach some common parenting issues? This guide hopes to help you decipher what is really going on inside your child's mind and how to address their unique needs. How to Parent Like an Autistic is a guide for neurotypical parents of an autistic child. Written by an autistic mom of an autistic child, with additional insight compiled through a survey of autistic parents, this guide helps parents understand the autistic mind.

Fourth grade is not going at all how Benny Barrows hoped. He hasn't found a new best friend. He's still not a great bike rider - even though his brother, George, who's autistic, can do tricks. And, worst of all, he worries his dad's recent accident might be all his fault. Benny tries to take his mom's advice and focus on helping others and to take things one step at a time. But when his dad ends up in the hospital again, Benny doesn't know how he and his family will overcome all the bad luck that life seems to have thrown their way.

Until two years of age, Craig and Samantha’s son Connor was just like other kids - playful, verbal, and affectionate. Then everything changed. He stopped talking, displayed behavioral problems, and withdrew into his own world. The official diagnosis - autism. Faced with seemingly insurmountable odds, Craig and Samantha refused to believe a meaningful life for Connor was impossible. God confirmed their faith by revealing to Craig that Connor would one day touch the lives of thousands of people around the world.

Misfit, truant, delinquent. John Robison was never a model child, and he wasn’t a model dad either. Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome at the age of 40, he approached fatherhood as a series of logic puzzles and practical jokes. When his son, Cubby, asked, “Where did I come from?” John said he’d bought him at the Kid Store and that the salesman had cheated him by promising Cubby would “do all chores”. He read electrical engineering manuals to Cubby at bedtime.