The Australian Autism Handbook: The essential guide for parents of children with autism: The essential guide to parenting a child on the autism spectrum - Softcover

O'Reilly, Benison; Smith, Seana

Softcover

ISBN 10: 192518384X ISBN 13: 9781925183849

Publisher: Ventura Press, 2023

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Authors

Benison O’Reilly 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 of Sydney for Under Fives and the co-author of The Australian Autism Handbook, Beyond the Baby Blues and The 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 at Hello Sydney Kids and Swim The World.

• Seana Smith was born and brought up in Scotland, in a village just outside Edinburgh. 
• After studying Classics and Old and Medieval English at Wadham College, University of Oxford (alongside Boris Johnson) she worked as a TV producer for the BBC in London and Glasgow and at Channel Nine in Sydney. 
• She published her first book Sydney For Under Fives in 2001 and went on to co-author the bestselling The Australian Autism Handbook in 2008, now in its fourth edition.
• She is a professional writer, self-described unprofessional mother of four, and is a sobriety ambassador through her own Sober Journeys community. 

Edition details

• Publisher: Ventura Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 192518384X
• ISBN 13: 9781925183849
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400