Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew: Updated and Expanded Edition

by Ellen Notbohm, Veronica Zysk (Editor)

Overview

A bestseller gets even better!  Every parent, teacher, social worker, therapist, and physician should have this succinct and informative book in their back pocket. Framed with both humor and compassion, the book describes ten characteristics that help illuminate—not define—children with autism.

Ellen’s personal experiences as a parent of children with autism and ADHD, a celebrated autism author, and a contributor to numerous publications, classrooms, conferences, and websites around the world coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical roles adult perspectives play in guiding the child with autism to a meaningful, self-sufficient, productive life.
 
A bonus section includes ten more essential, thought-provoking "things" to share with young people on the spectrum as they cross the threshold of adulthood, and an appendix of more than seventy questions suitable for group discussion or self-reflection. This new edition sounds an even more resonant call to action, carrying the reader farther into understanding the needs and the potential of every child with autism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781935274650
Publisher:	Future Horizons, Inc.
Publication date:	10/01/2012
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	200
Sales rank:	447,726
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Book author, columnist, and mother of sons with autism and ADHD, Ellen Notbohm’s writings on autism and general interest subjects have been published all over the world. Her books, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew, and The Autism Trail Guide are ForeWord Book of the Year finalists. Both Ten Things books are also iParenting Media Award recipients. A regular columnist for Autism Asperger’s Digest magazine and Children’s Voice, she also co-authored with Veronica Zysk 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism or Asperger's, a Learning Magazine 2006 Teachers’ Choice Award winner. Beyond autism, she is a frequent contributor to Ancestry magazine, has published political commentary in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers around the U.S., and writes for numerous regional and national magazines on a range of subjects.

Table of Contents

Preface
It begins
Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew
 
Chapter One
I am a whole child
 
Chapter Two
My senses are out of sync
 
Chapter Three
Distinguish between won’t and can’t
 
Chapter Four
I am a concrete thinker. I interpret language literally
 
Chapter Five
Listen to all the ways I’m trying to communicate
 
Chapter Six
Picture this! I am visually oriented
 
Chapter Seven
Focus and build on what I can do rather than what I can’t do
 
Chapter Eight
Help me with social interactions
 
Chapter Nine
Identify what triggers my meltdowns
 
Chapter Ten
Love me unconditionally
 
Afterword
 
Triumph and Transition
 
Evolution
 
Appendix
     Questions for group discussion or self-reflection
     More by Ellen Notbohm
     Book excerpt, Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew
 
Acknowledgements
 
About the Author

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“The FIRST book you should read when your child is diagnosed. Written by a mum with fantastic insight into the world of autism, through the child’s eyes, and having a son of her own with ASD really shines through in the book. It is an intelligent and empathetic book written FOR our children. Ellen Notbohm is an amazing mother and author! Have bought this book for ALL my family.”—Trinny Holman, Queensland, Australia "I have been working as an educator/therapist with children with autism for five years now and I feel a deep resonance with Ellen’s books, as the writings are based on the same system of belief that I have always tried to work from.”—Lindsay Ronald, intervention therapist "You have taught me so much about my nephew’s world I could never have understood! I am so grateful for people like you who are blazing a trail for the children of tomorrow.”—Cheryl Wheeler, university library technician 

Editorial Reviews

“The FIRST book you should read when your child is diagnosed. Written by a mum with fantastic insight into the world of autism, through the child’s eyes, and having a son of her own with ASD really shines through in the book. It is an intelligent and empathetic book written FOR our children. Ellen Notbohm is an amazing mother and author! Have bought this book for ALL my family.”
--Trinny Holman, Queensland, Australia
 
"I have been working as an educator/therapist with children with autism for five years now and I feel a deep resonance with Ellen’s books, as the writings are based on the same system of belief that I have always tried to work from.”
--Lindsay Ronald, intervention therapist
 
"You have taught me so much about my nephew’s world I could never have understood! I am so grateful for people like you who are blazing a trail for the children of tomorrow.”
--Cheryl Wheeler, university library technician
 

From the Publisher