Teaching Your Child with Love and Skill: A Guide for Parents and Other Educators of Children with Autism, including Moderate to Severe Autism

by Joyce Show

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.

402 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 15, 2012

Reviews

[Gloria Pearson-Vasey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a terrific book for parents walking the challenging journey with their autistic child. Using personal experience, the author mixes empathy and common sense with tested approaches. The eighteen chapters include creating strategies for cognitive development, teaching nonverbal communication and sensory integration. A wealth of valuable information!

[Pat Stockett · Rating 5 out of 5]

A powerful book for parents and teachers of children with autism that gives direction and hope.

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i need to read

[Crystal Celentano · Rating 4 out of 5]

very insightful and helpful, worth owning