Helping Your Autistic Child: A self-help guide for parents

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Practical, evidence-based advice for common challenging behaviours and situations involving autistic children.

Autism spectrum conditions affect about one per cent of the population and whilst they can present very differently in individual cases, there are some common traits and challenges faced by autistic people. This self-help guide focuses on practical, proven techniques to help parents of autistic children with difficult areas commonly experienced with autism.

Written by authors with extensive experience in research and working with children with a wide range of neurodevelopmental difficulties, this book uses a strength-based approach, helping children to enhance their strengths, rather than treating problems as impairments needing fixing. This book will help you to:

Support your child through anxiety and social interaction issues

Manage sleep problems and feeding difficulties

Understand sensory responses in autism

Deal with challenging behaviour, including self-harm and demand avoidance

Helping Your Child is a series for parents and caregivers to support children through developmental difficulties, both psychological and physical. Each guide uses clinically proven techniques.

Series editors: Dr Polly Waite and Emeritus Professor Peter Cooper

Author Bio

ANN OZSIVADJIAN is a clinical psychologist in independent practice and also a visiting senior lecturer at King's College London. She worked for several years as the senior psychologist in a specialist complex neurodevelopmental disorders team at the Evelina London Children's Hospital, providing assessments and treatments for a wide range of neurodevelopmental difficulties and co-occurring conditions. Her particular research interests and clinical specialism are mental health problems in ASD and adapting interventions for young people on the autism spectrum, and she regularly presents at conferences on these topics. She also provides training courses across the UK to NHS and other services on the assessment and treatment of mental health problems in autism spectrum disorders. She has published a number of papers and co-authored book chapters. She has also produced a number of podcasts and webinars in conjunction with the Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health.