The Australian Autism Handbook: The essential guide for parents of children with autism

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A fully updated edition of the widely praised and most trusted Australian guide on how to raise a child with autism spectrum disorder.

• An essential, comprehensive and INCLUSIVE guide for parents and carers of kids with autism. Advice from leading world experts delivers the information you can TRUST.
• Offers SUPPORT AND GUIDANCE on early signs of ASD; diagnosis; medical theories; schooling and growing up; intervention programs; treatments; dealing with emotions (parents and child); what not to say to your child and how to help them.
• SHARES the lived experience of fellow parents who are raising kids with autism and we hear from adults who have autism to hear their perspective.
• So much has changed since 2008: the language of autism, diagnoses, the understanding of disability, society, culture and agency. This new edition sparkles with new ENERGY and new horizons.

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Benison OReilly is a pharmacist, a medical writer, and a mother of three. She is the co-author of Beyond The Baby Blues: The Complete Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Handbook. Seana Smith is the author ofSydney for Under Fivesand the co-author ofThe Australian Autism Handbook,Beyond the Baby BluesandThe Superfoods Index.She studied Latin, Greek and Old and Mediaeval English at Wadham College, University of Oxford before coming to Australia and becoming a best-selling author and well-followed blogger on family and health issues. Read her writings atHello Sydney KidsandSwim The World.