Hello
We are in the process of awaiting evaluation report re 2.3 DS re ASD/AS/PDD-NOS. I am doing my usual coping strategy of information gathering and reading.
I would like some recommendations as to what to read.
Already read
The Complete Guide to Aspergers Syndrome by Tony Attwood. Ploughing through this but not finding it an easy read...rather dry.
Ten Things your child with Autism wishes you knew by Ellen Notbohm. Found this compassionate and easy to read, very moving in places and DH loved it.
Autism by Hand by Lorca Damon. USA mum day to day account of life with her DD with her tips and tricks. Actually HATE this book as it includes lots of power struggles and even forced feeding of cotton candy which her daughter asked to try then refused. But it does have sme creative ideas in it.
On order
An Early start for your child with autism: using everyday activities to leap your kids connect, communicate and learn by Sally J Rogers and Geraldine Dawson. The Denver Model parent handbook; if DS is Dx and entered into the intervention programme here it will be based on this offshoot of ABA.
Not ASD- related. Already read before all this ASD stuff started in earnest: I post these because it gives an idea of what I rated and how I try to be as DS parent. Also just because it looks like DS has ASD he is still a child and I am still a parent and I don't want to just look at him through the prism of spectruminess. So non ASD books still very interesting to me.
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and listen so kids will talk - Adele Faber and Lane Maslish- often recommended on MN and chimes very much with my parenting/teaching philosophy.
Playful Parenting by Lawrence Cohen - ditto
Raising Boys and
Raising Babies: should under 3s go to nursery? By Steve Biddlph. Find it a bit sexist but backed up my instincts about wanting to be an at-ome parent for the early years
Your Baby and Child - Penelope Leach. Find her very compassionate and sensible and a lovely writer.
The Baby Book by William and Martha Sears: tried hard to be an AP in the early days of screaming reflux sleep disordered baby DS, like the compassion and gentleness of the approach and the stuff about high-needs baby. As I got more confident discovered older DS needed routine but I'm never going to be a Gina F/ Supernanny type - I do routine because its DS-led and what he seems to need rather than convenient for me!
the Mumsnet toddler and baby book and this site obviously helped HUGELY.
Sorry this is a bit long. Can anyone recommend me things that will help? I am kind of drowning in info and aware that the furious reading a part coping mechanism and part desperate desire to understand so I can do the right thing. I am realizing that I need to try to look after myself better (currently sick with chest infection and the stress of waiting to know isn't helping) but if I can focus on a few good books rather than frantically searching and clicking I will calm down and do better I think.