
Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum
Overcoming the Challenges and Celebrating the Gifts
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum
Overcoming the Challenges and Celebrating the Gifts
About this book
This book is a celebration of all the wonderful and unexpected gifts that having a daughter on the autism spectrum can bring to a family. Each chapter offers encouragement and guidance on issues such as school, friendships, meltdowns, special gifts, family relationships, therapies and interventions. Having daughters on the spectrum presents unique and rewarding challenges and this book is packed with friendly advice and real life examples from a mother who has experienced it all first hand.
This positive, upbeat book is guaranteed to offer support to parents, grandparents and family members, as well as providing educators and anyone else working in a supporting role with an insight into what life is like for girls on the spectrum and their parents.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Defining Autism and Meeting My Girls
- Chapter 2 The Diagnosis
- Chapter 3 Girls on the Spectrum
- Chapter 4 Education
- Chapter 5 Friends
- Chapter 6 Siblings
- Chapter 7 Causes, Treatments, and Acceptance
- Chapter 8 The World Wide Web
- Chapter 9 Milestones
- Chapter 10 Autism Truths and Myths
- Chapter 11 Dark Moments
- Chapter 12 Special Gifts
- Chapter 13 Outtakes, Mistakes, and C is for Crazy
- Chapter 14 Relationships
- Chapter 15 Taking Care of You
- Conclusion The Future
- References