Autism: Parents’ Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder

By Charlie Mason

This book is a highly informative, easy-to-read, clear and simple summary of what parents need to know about Autism, Autism Spectrum Disorder, Asperger's, and the behavioral and emotional challenges that come along with them.

Autism awareness is at an all-time high, and the concepts presented in major works are summarized and discussed here. There are many challenges involved in raising a child with autism, including obsessive behaviors, lack of social skills, and sensory sensitivity. Parents might find that the child is not relating well to others or regulating their emotions.

This book will help parents deal with these problems and teach the child new, positive alternatives to live better. There are strategies outlined that show how play, exercise, social interaction, and other activities can strengthen a child's purpose and connection in the world. Playing on the floor with the child can be very important for development; in this book, it is explained why this works and some suggestions for starting to play with the child with ASD.

There are many academic journals and complicated articles with academic language that is hard to follow and difficult to parse. This book is written to be accessible to the everyday busy parent. Each chapter presents information that builds on the next.

This book will teach you about:

• The current understanding of Autism Spectrum Disorder

• Understanding the Child

• Diagnosis and how to deal with it

• Sensory interaction

• Social skills and how to learn them

• How to teach children with autism

• How to train a child with autism

• Increasing your child's coping skills

• Reducing your child's stress

• Maximizing education in play time

• How to manage time and scheduling

• Interacting with others

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charlie Mason
• Release date: Sep 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393860495

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Table of Contents

Introduction....................................................................................

Chapter 1: Introduction to Autism...........................................

Chapter 2: Understanding Child Autistic?............................

Chapter 3: Diagnosis of the Condition....................................

Chapter 4: The Sensory, Social Interaction, and Thinking Pattern................

Chapter 5: How to Get the Attention of a Child with Autism................

Chapter 6: How to Help Improve Their Obsessive Behavior................

Chapter 7: How to Teach Your Autistic Child......................

Chapter 8: Mental Health Management................................

Chapter 9: Visual Tools...............................................................

Chapter 10: Play Time and Physical Exercise......................

Chapter 11: Relating with Family, Siblings, and Others..

Conclusion.......................................................................................

Introduction

Congratulations on downloading Autism – Parents’ Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder and thank you for doing so.

The following chapters will discuss the symptoms and characteristics that make up Autism Spectrum Disorder and will give information on various aspects of parenting a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

There are plenty of books on this subject on the market, so thanks again for choosing this one! Every effort was made to ensure it is full of as much useful information as possible. Please enjoy!

Chapter 1: Introduction to Autism

The word Autism can refer to a few different things. It can describe a symptom, a disorder, and a syndrome. The idea for the conception of autism that we currently have is based on a negative social effect. The term autistic isolation comes from the description of psychiatric patients who had kept socially isolated.

Let’s discuss autism as a disorder. Autism Spectrum Disorder (the most current nomenclature for the disorder) can be considered a developmental disorder, characterized by impairments in communication and social relationships. It is a quite complex disorder. It involves delays and problems in a range of emotional, cognitive, motor and sensory abilities. The specific behaviors that might come from the diagnosis are not specific to autism, and rather come from a fundamental problem in relating, communicating, and thinking. These behaviors could be bodily spinning, perseverating on a specific word without apparent meaning, lining up toys, or other behaviors.

The behavioral characteristics involve repetitive and restrictive patterns of behavior, with the onset of these patterns before the age of three. So, the combinations of both the impairment in relational functioning along with repetitive, restrictive, or stereotyped patterns of behavior make up the what of autism spectrum disorder.

This disorder has attracted more and more attention for the last twenty or so years. The attention has manifested itself in books, research publications, blogs, and other forms of media. As the awareness of the disorder has increased, so has research. The first mentions of autism came way back in the 1960s, but by most standards, autism is a relatively new and misunderstood condition. It is a modern disorder