Asperger Syndrome and Your Child: A Parent's Guide – Practical Advice and Compassionate Insights for Diagnosis and Social Skills

by Michael D. Powers, Janet Poland

Asperger's Syndrome and Your Child, an informative, empathetic, and comprehensive guide to this elusive condition, answers the most common questions and offers an encouraging outlook for your child's future. Dr. Michael Powers weaves together a compassionate account of everything related to AS, offering such practical advice from getting the right diagnosis to helping your child develop social skills. Infused with voices of real children who offer insights about their own conditions, the book gives perspective on how children live with the disorder. Asperger Syndrome and Your Child is an indispensable book for parents as well as teachers and other professionals who have someone with Asperger Syndrome in their lives.

Genres: Parenting, Nonfiction, Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Psychology

320 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2002

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book for professional reasons, but it was very readable. Solid with current research, but not so solid you can't read it. The book discusses children from early childhood through adulthood. I especially liked that it gave very specific suggestions about what parents can do to help develop social skills. I had been looking for a little more information about what other professionals do to support the family. Probably wasn't the ideal book for that.

[Nhu Luong · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is very inspiring and helpful;however, the repetition of content happens several times through out the books. After reading this book, I fully understand what Asperger Syndrome is and they give you specific examples of how to improve your child's condition. I recommend the parents or teachers to read this book even though I personally have a neutral feeling about it.

[S · Rating 4 out of 5]

A teacher's guide for my purposes.

[Wendy Gorringe · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very informative and easy to read. Much easier to understand than Temple Grandin's books. I liked that it gave specific suggestions of things that parents can do to help their child.

[Teresa · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was helpful. Insightful and informative.

[Marilyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This has been my Asperger Bible. It relates to my son more than any book that I have read so far.

[Donald Broussard]

Having been diagnosed with what would have been considered Asperger's (now folded into Autism per the DSM-V), I found a free copy of this book being given away at the local public library. Which tells you how out of date it is -- it's coming before Asperger's had been folded into autism diagnosis; the DSM-IV is still the latest criteria on which this book rests. It's old enough to not have anyone check it out for years, as later books have come along about the spectrum. And of course the technical point of not having a separate diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome anymore means all of this is now due for a refit.

It's not a bad read, and it reads very easily and empathically. It may not be the most current book out there but it's not a bad resource for parents having questions to start with. And it comes with a forward from an author of an even earlier groundbreaking book. Taken with the expertise of this author, a Psy. D. who runs a practice dedicated to children with special needs, and it is clear that this is at least written by a qualified author who knows well what he's talking about. Not all of that changes just because of the reclassification of the topic.