Teaching Your Child with Love and Skill: A Guide for Parents and Other Educators of Children with Autism, Including Moderate to Severe Autism

Parents of children with autism can often feel out of their depth when it comes to nurturing their child's learning and development. This book helps parents to make sense of the confusing array of educational interventions available, and shows how to combine and adapt different strategies to meet the specific needs of their child, including those with moderate to severe autism. Joyce Show provides practical advice based on her real life experiences as both a mother and a physician, and offers straightforward primers for popular interventions such as Floortime and Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA), enabling parents to use these methods themselves.

Parents will learn how to motivate their child, encourage verbal and non-verbal communication, stimulate cognitive, social and emotional development, deal with challenging behaviors effectively, and teach important everyday life skills, while growing in a loving relationship with their child. This book will offer valuable guidance for the parents of any child on the autism spectrum whether high or low functioning, as well as the teachers, therapists, family members, and friends who support them.