What is autism -- What causes autism? -- Can autism be cured? -- Difficulty, stress and our advice for you -- Getting a diagnosis -- Understanding your child's specifics and building your treatment team -- Choosing interventions and treatments -- Medications -- Other biomedical, physical and sensory interventions -- Education -- Social, communication and language interventions -- Real-life knowledge, skills and families
Summary
Parenting Your Child Through the Challenges of Autism takes a revolutionary approach to helping parents find and implement the most effective and powerful treatments for children with autism, a condition that still baffles many mental health professionals. Autism expert M. Anjali Sastry and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) psychiatrist Blaise Aguirre offer practical tips and guidance parents can use to track the effects of treatment on their children and draw from their own observations to find the treatments that will get the best results
