Acknowledgements.; A Note About This Book.; Foreword by Carol A. Just.; Introduction.; 1. Body Awareness.; 2. Increasing Coordination.; 3. Fine Motor Skills.; 4. Understanding the World Through the Senses.; 5. Daily Living Skills.; 6. Activities in the Home, School and Community.; 7. Calming Techniques.; 8. Building Capacity: Optimizing Care and Treatment.
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Quite often when presented with a diagnosis of ASD it is difficult for a parent or carer to know how best to help their child. This book, by Debra Jacobs and Dion Betts, not only provides a veritable cornucopia of practical suggestions and insightful advice, it goes one step further. It teaches how to reach and relate to a young child with ASD in a calm, confidant and loving way. The writers have left nothing to chance. Starting with babyhood, they show how to maximize the learning potential of every waking moment and demonstrate how this can be fun for everyone involved. This book could stand alone as a handbook for raising all children, but combined with the authors' astute insight into autism, it is a triumph of empowerment. If you follow the advice set out in its pages you will, undoubtedly, be training your child with ASD to live life to the full.