Children with high-functioning autism: a parent's guide
Children With High-Functioning Autism: A Parent's Guide offers parents the information needed to help them cope with their child's autism and to navigate the path as they first perceive differences, seek assistance and treatment, and help their child develop into his or her full potential. Including examples of the author's own experiences with her child with autism, this book helps families realize that there are others on similar paths--and help is available. With topics ranging from understa…
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- Full title :Children with high-functioning autism : a parent's guide / Claire E. Hughes-Lynch.
Summary
Children With High-Functioning Autism: A Parent's Guide offers parents the information needed to help them cope with their child's autism and to navigate the path as they first perceive differences, seek assistance and treatment, and help their child develop into his or her full potential. Including examples of the author's own experiences with her child with autism, this book helps families realize that there are others on similar paths--and help is available. With topics ranging from understanding the first signs of autism and the diagnosis, finding a support network and filling out necessary paperwork, to determining the various types of therapies available and planning for adulthood, this book provides parents valuable insight into this new world. With an emphasis on high-functioning autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified, and Asperger's syndrome, Children With High-Functioning Autism: A Parent's Guide helps parents learn to celebrate small areas of growth and keep the focus on the child.
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- Publication Date:©2010.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Prufrock Press
- Place of Publication:Waco, Tex
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:x, 243 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781593634025, 1593634021
- oclc:ocn460054725
- LC Classification:RJ506.A9
- Dewey Decimal:618.92/85882
Table of Contents
Starting the journey: from the beginning--and even before -- The landscape and its signage -- I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Toto: Diagnosis -- Down the rabbit hole -- Education: joining the highway -- Are we there yet? -- Siblings, Spouses, and other passengers.
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