PARENTING A CHILD WITH AUTISM - B. AGUIRRE, A. SASTRY

Do you feel overwhelmed and confused, not knowing how to help your autistic child? This book is an insightful, empathetic, and highly practical guide to the difficult terrain of autism from the moment of diagnosis, giving parents the opportunity to actively participate in their child's therapy.

• Practical Guide: Help in understanding autism and participating in the child's therapy.
• Knowledge Based on Research: Proven methods to help you meet challenges.
• Navigating the Care System: Information on health care and education.
• Treatment Options: Understanding different therapy and treatment methods.
• Personalized Treatment Plans: Developing plans with a therapist.
• DBT Skills: Practical skills of dialectical-behavioral therapy.
• Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation: Avoiding disappointment and seeking effective solutions.

Among the extremely wide range of therapies that promise to alleviate or even cure autism, even leading researchers cannot predict what will work for your child. As a parent, you are in a unique position to become an expert in your child's needs and strengths. This book will equip you with practical and research-based methods to help you meet the challenges ahead.

You will learn how to navigate the health care and education system, understand treatment options, and use the opinions of specialists and your own observations to find the right therapy program, and, perhaps most importantly, you will discover how best to care for your child and give them a chance for a better life. Every child with autism responds differently to treatment, which is one of the reasons why even experts cannot clearly determine which treatment method is most effective in a given case.

With the knowledge contained in this book, parents can work with a therapist to develop personalized treatment plans based on one or more of the programs described in it to achieve the best results. The book also contains information on medications and a range of practical skills from dialectical-behavioral therapy (DBT) that parents can start using right away to improve their children's reactions. Mindfulness and emotion regulation skills help parents avoid unproductive disappointment and the painful and slow process of trial and error, which involves searching the sea of options they encounter on the Internet.

The book, published by Urban & Partner in 2025, has 218 pages and a format of 235x165 mm. The paperback binding ensures comfortable reading and durability. It is an indispensable source of knowledge for every parent of a child with autism.