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Autistic Logistics: A Parent's Guide to Tackling Bedtime, Toilet Training, Tantrums, Hitting, and Other Everyday Challenges
Have you ever wished that your child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) came with a manual? This book provides just that, offering clear, precise, step-by-step advice on everything you want to know, including:
- How to toilet train your child without pushing or pressuring
- How to get your child to sleep in their own bed and through the night
- What to do when your child tantrums, hits or bites
- How to introduce new foods, without a fight
Based on decades of experience, Kate Wilde tackles these day-to-day issues and more, using tried-and-tested techniques to help you transform the challenges of home life and create harmony. The unique approach featured in the book, which encourages you to support your child's need for control rather than fight against it, can have transformative results. Not only will you learn to see through your child's eyes and help your child in a way that honors his/her specialness, but you will also begin to free yourself from the pressure and discomfort that can so often accompany everyday challenges.
Catering to all age ranges and points on the spectrum, this book will be of immeasurable value to parents and caregivers of children with autism, other family members, as well as teachers and teaching assistants.
- How to toilet train your child without pushing or pressuring
- How to get your child to sleep in their own bed and through the night
- What to do when your child tantrums, hits or bites
- How to introduce new foods, without a fight
Based on decades of experience, Kate Wilde tackles these day-to-day issues and more, using tried-and-tested techniques to help you transform the challenges of home life and create harmony. The unique approach featured in the book, which encourages you to support your child's need for control rather than fight against it, can have transformative results. Not only will you learn to see through your child's eyes and help your child in a way that honors his/her specialness, but you will also begin to free yourself from the pressure and discomfort that can so often accompany everyday challenges.
Catering to all age ranges and points on the spectrum, this book will be of immeasurable value to parents and caregivers of children with autism, other family members, as well as teachers and teaching assistants.
256 pages, Paperback
First published December 21, 2014
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October 13, 2015
As a parent of a child with Autism I tend to read everything I can get my hands on concerning Autism, so when I saw this on Netgalley, in exchange for an honest review, I jumped on it.
There is no parent who doesn't wish their delightful bundle of joy aka a child came with an instruction manual...well, imagine if everything you've even known, heard, or believed about raising a child is then thrown out of the window and challenge after challenge after super-sized challenge gets thrown at you over and over and over again, with family, friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, etc. and even total strangers telling you to do all manner of different things to 'fix' your child - some advice sounds odd, odder, maybe illegal, abusive, useless, reasonable, but mostly, confusing - would you do just about anything for an instruction manual then?
That's what raising a child with Autism feels like, except there's no way to describe it...everyday you start at the top of the highest roller-coaster in the world, then before you can even splash some water on your face the roller-coaster plunges down, then up, then down...except instead of having fun, you just get the terror of wondering if the whole thing is going to go off the rails and you don't know if you actually know how to stop it.
This will, of course, start again the next day, and every day, or often, if you're as tired as you think you could be, it will even start during the night, after all, why not?
The weirdest part, is that you love your child with all your heart and soul and mind, and all you can think when that roller-coaster plunges again is, how can I help my beautiful, amazing, brilliant child express all the wonder that's inside him so he can be happy and reach his potential, which leads parents like me to books like this.
I can't say this book is an instruction manual for your child with Autism, after all, each child with Autism, like each child and person, is unique, but this has excellent, practical, non-judgmental (you have no idea how welcome that is), doable advice to deal with the day to day challenges. All I can say is, thank you, Kate and I've got to go, the roller-coaster is about to plunge down again.
There is no parent who doesn't wish their delightful bundle of joy aka a child came with an instruction manual...well, imagine if everything you've even known, heard, or believed about raising a child is then thrown out of the window and challenge after challenge after super-sized challenge gets thrown at you over and over and over again, with family, friends, teachers, doctors, therapists, etc. and even total strangers telling you to do all manner of different things to 'fix' your child - some advice sounds odd, odder, maybe illegal, abusive, useless, reasonable, but mostly, confusing - would you do just about anything for an instruction manual then?
That's what raising a child with Autism feels like, except there's no way to describe it...everyday you start at the top of the highest roller-coaster in the world, then before you can even splash some water on your face the roller-coaster plunges down, then up, then down...except instead of having fun, you just get the terror of wondering if the whole thing is going to go off the rails and you don't know if you actually know how to stop it.
This will, of course, start again the next day, and every day, or often, if you're as tired as you think you could be, it will even start during the night, after all, why not?
The weirdest part, is that you love your child with all your heart and soul and mind, and all you can think when that roller-coaster plunges again is, how can I help my beautiful, amazing, brilliant child express all the wonder that's inside him so he can be happy and reach his potential, which leads parents like me to books like this.
I can't say this book is an instruction manual for your child with Autism, after all, each child with Autism, like each child and person, is unique, but this has excellent, practical, non-judgmental (you have no idea how welcome that is), doable advice to deal with the day to day challenges. All I can say is, thank you, Kate and I've got to go, the roller-coaster is about to plunge down again.
February 18, 2015
If ever there was a manual of how to deal with the nitty gritty day to day challenges a parent of a child with Autism faces, Autistic Logistics is that manual. The book is digestible and refreshingly logical and really pinpoints the reasons why a child with Autism may be doing particular behaviors and offers concrete explanations of how to respond to these behaviors and more importantly, empowers the parent to feel and think in a particular way that is respectful and embracing of the child.
July 28, 2019
Käsiraamat autismispektrihäirega lapse kasvatamiseks. Autor on välja toonud peatükkide kaupa põhilised probleemid selliste laste puhul. Soovitan väga neile, kes puutuvad esmakordselt sellise erilise lapsega kokku.
October 12, 2017
An interesting read with some good ideas. I'll certainly be trying them out on my autistic son.
January 29, 2018
Very informative book, one of the ver few ones that explains more than circulating around the topic.
I highly recommend it
I highly recommend it
July 18, 2019
Some of the tools in here are just awful!!! Avoid!!!
November 2, 2020
Great insight into how to work with ASD children. Don't necessarily agree with all the tactics but 99% of them are reasonable and would be well tolerated.
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