Developing Differently: A Guide for Parents of Young Children with Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism

by Joshua Muggleton

Parenting isn't easy, and parenting a child with a Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism can be challenging. However, a lot of parenting strategies are straightforward once you get your head around them. With the right knowledge, environment, interactions, responses and understanding, you can help reduce your child's anxiety, build their confidence, and help them develop learning and communication skills.Based on his work as a Clinical Psychologist working with children developing differently, Dr Joshua Muggleton provides a comprehensive, step-by-step parenting plan that will support you to embed good practice at home from day one. The book outlines how to provide the right environment for your child to learn and grow, how to model and encourage new skills, how to organise routines, and how to make these strategies work in family life. By getting things right for your child early on, you can help prevent emotional and behavioural challenges before they arise, and will be better able to understand and support your child when they do. These strategies are designed to work across all neurodevelopmental conditions, and take into account co-occurring conditions such as ADHD, meaning none of the advice in the book requires your child to have a specific diagnosis. It also includes downloadable examples of charts, how-to guides for creating visual resources tailored to your child's individual needs, and downloadable chapters on sleep and siblings.

Genres: Disability

288 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 21, 2022

Reviews

[Amy Dow · Rating 5 out of 5]

As a mother of three girls, the eldest who was diagnosed with global developmental delay and is now 8, this book has finally given me answers to a lot of questions I have had. There were so many moments when I felt like the author knew the thoughts I have as a parent of a delayed child more than even my closest family would be able to remotely guess. Thank you for helping me discover ways to help both myself and my child in ways I didn’t think possible. THANK YOU for your wisdom, experience and knowledge. In sharing it through a book, you have made it more accessible to people like me who didn’t know where to even start.

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm currently caring for a little boy who has a development delay. I read this in the hopes of understanding him better and I have, it's taken the stress out and have care at the forefront.

Although this book is aimed for families with children developing differently, I believe it would be helpful for every family. I've been looking after children for 10 years and there were many aspects in this book I was already doing (though not necessarily knowing why) and others where I felt myself saying "woah" I feel like my practice of care has been further shaped with this book.

The author has such a lovely way of describing and teaching. I felt like I was in class (with my favourite teacher). I just wanted to learn more. There is zero judgement, just information, and acceptance that this stuff is hard and we're all trying to do our best

[Jenna Baldwin · Rating 5 out of 5]

My son has global development delay and this book was a great help
Easy to read and follow
It had some very good ideas and strategies
Without any judgement
I would definitely recommend it