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Tips Unveiled Within from Experienced Professionals

This book is about hope and wisdom for those dealing with autistic spectrum disorder and about a community of professionals, parents, and friends who stand together to support and learn from one another. In this book,each group gives voice to its unique viewpoints,efforts,joys, and frustrations. This book is about seeing children with autism through each community member’s eyes. One thing common to all of them is the utmost respect for life, and a driving desire to help autistic children. The characters are fictional, but the information they give is based on real experience over the author’s 25 years in developing educational programs for children with autism and other children with special needs. This book can be a reference for in-house workshops in schools, and as supplemental reading for introductory courses in psychology and education. It can be a resource for pediatricians, family physicians, and parents about other professionals who work with and support children with autistic spectrum disorder.

I don’t know what my parents want. They want to change
everything about me—my temperament, my thinking, my
behavior, my communication, and how I feel. I am puzzled
because they say they love me but they want to change
everything about me. Then I wonder what they love about
me. If they love me, why do they look so sad? It is very
confusing to me. Why don’t they ask me what would help
me? I don’t have words for everything I need to convey.
Sometimes my body takes over before the words come out
of my mouth. My body and my actions are my ways of
telling people what I need. There is an innate wisdom in my
actions. My body knows what its needs are.