Advice best books to read on autism

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Hi

My ds 4yo, undiagnosed non verbal autism. Looking for books any parent has read that is def worth a read and has helped you and your dc out with diff aspects.
Such as,
Eating/drinking
Sleep (god I miss sleep)
Toilet training
Speech (can't seem to hold his attention long enough for pecs)
Pretty much everything.
Any help much appreciated.
Thanks.

The book I always recommend is An Early Start for your Child with Autism (on Amazon). It's about the Early Start Denver Model approach to encouraging learning for children with autism through play.

I haven't tackled a number of the issues you list yet as my DS is a year younger and we're not quite there yet (i.e. potty training!), but it helped massively in terms of getting his interest and attention, which then led on to a pretty significant explosion in spoken vocabulary. He's still not answering most questions, or having a conversation yet, but his understanding of language has hugely increased, and his expressive language is almost keeping up! I'm now very hopeful that he'll be having actual back and forth conversations in the next couple weeks or months with his pace of language acquisition.

I read the book when he was about 2.7, really got going with the activities properly by the time he was about 2.10, and now at 3yo he's chattering away constantly using real words and not just babbling. I know every child is different but it made me look at what I can do to help him learn very differently, and more positively!

Also, if you find a magic wand that gets your DS to sleep please let us know ;-)

How to raise a happy autistic child.
The reason I jump.

I also follow a bunch of autism parenting influencers on instagram. ‘About autism’ is good. Helps to feel less alone x

Also with a diagnosis help should come in the form of professionals who can help you with the stuff you mention rather than you having to figure it out from books x

Hi,
Thanks for your recommendations. I have read the reason I jump, was a great insight.
That's great @scratchybaby hopefully will help us as much as you and DC. Thank you for that.
@ninamaniana
Was told be at least a year before start assessments and that was July. So prob be longer now after Xmas covid. So maybe a longer wait to get most of them to help. Never thought about influenzers thank you for that.

As for sleep he does get melatonin, but does not keep him asleep. Sometimes he'll go back to sleep easy and most of time he's up for hours bouncing around like he's had enough sleep. We did buy a colour changing light bulb off amazon that does help him settle at night (the first time going to bed) as can be dulled down even the coloured lights on it. So if you manage to find something else that helps sleep please also share. ❤️
Thanks ladies.

Autism the eight colour of the rainbow. And direct line of chat with me. I was there 30 years ago.