Parenting Your Asperger Child: Individualized Solutions for Teaching Your Child Practical Skills

by Alan Sohn, Cathy Grayson

Asperger's Syndrome is a form of autism—but with the right guidance, these children can go on to live happy, fulfilling lives.In Parenting Your Asperger Child, Dr. Alan Sohn's and Cathy Grayson's groundbreaking Cognitive Social Integration Therapy (CSIT) offers practical solutions that help parents prepare their children for a fulfilling life of social interaction outside the confines of their syndrome, addressing such topics The six characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome- How to identify a child's type of Asperger's—and the best approaches for dealing with it- Understanding how an Asperger's child sees and interprets the world- Replacing inappropriate coping techniques with productive skills- How to survive and learn from a crisis- How school programs can aid in teaching Asperger children - Making changes that last

Genres: Autistic Spectrum Disorder, Parenting, Nonfiction, Childrens, Self Help, Family, Aspergers

314 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 1, 2005

Reviews

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

I am buying this book. It took me forever to get through it because I felt that I had to absorb and practically memorize every single sentence. I finally decided that I should just buy it and have it on hand to refer to (probably every single day). Instead of just explaining Aspergers / High-Functioning Autism in a general manner, this book goes so far as to break it into subtypes, which was very eye-opening to me. The authors make such a point of explaining that nearly every difficult behavior that we encounter with these children is because of their anxiety. This has helped me start looking at my son in a new way. The best part of the book is that it gives real answers in techniques to use with your child to help them become more comfortable in society and less anxious about everything. Most publications about autism are much more general in the techniques they list. They also still leave you wondering what to do because they emphasize that every child with autism is different so different interventions work for different kids. This book, however, gives very specific suggestions that seem that they would be helpful in a wide variety of situations.
I wish that I could hire the author to come and live at my house for a while and give me very personalized training and instructions:)
I would highly recommend this book to anyone who has a child with Aspergers / High-Functioning Autism. I also think that it is a great read for educators of these children. I, in fact, am contemplating copying parts of the book (specifically the chapter on education) to give to my son's future kindergarten teacher.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

For me, this has been the most helpful book for understanding Asperger Syndrome. My now adult daughter struggles with this spectrum disorder. For many years we struggled to understand what she was going through. Then my neighbor, who has a son diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, introduced me to this book. It has helped me to understand what she is going through and how to help her. The book details 6 characteristics of Asperger Syndrome, identifying subtypes and how to deal with each, how our Aspie children see and interpret the world, understanding the inapporpriate coping techniques they struggle with and helping them develop appropriate coping techniques. Those coping techniques these children develop stem from the individual struggles they have with the Asperger syndrome. These book is an absolute must for those who have family members with Aspergers.

[Amanda · Rating 4 out of 5]

The strategies for helping a child with Asperger Syndrome are practical and realistic. The breakdown of the sub-types of Asperger Syndrome and how the brain functions really helped me understand my daughter better. I feel like I am learning a second language in some ways and my daughter loves it! It is very interesting. The role-playing and social story ideas were really helpful.

[Janet M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fairly good book to have for reference for those raising a child with autism. I guess it's best to have several books to pick things out of for your particular child, since the spectrum is so wide.

[Jessi · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is one of the best of its type out there. Although this diagnosis has been replaced with ASD as a title, the information contained is still very helpful for dealing with this specific type of child. Looking at the Asperger subtypes was very helpful, along with the practical plans for explicitly teaching skills. I wish this came with a workbook or that I could meet the author and strategize.

[Danielle Swanson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Although Asperger’s is no longer a diagnosis (instead the DSM-5 has combined Asperger’s and Autism and moved to diagnoses of ASD 1, 2, or 3), this book is helpful for understanding motivations and reasoning behind behaviors and how to respond to them appropriately. Really good book.

[Kathy Lyons · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book but didn't finish. I've read too many of these books...

[Anita · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read this book to fulfill the goal "read a book by or about a person with a disability" While my son is not on the spectrum, he is very close to it. He shares many characteristics with the asperger's child. I tried the concepts found in this book on our recent trip to Florida. It was amazing, both he and my 2 year old not only did not have as many meltdowns, but actually came up to me and said mommy, i have a little problem. I know you are a problem solver, I am one too, but i just can't figure this one out." i was able to take care of the issue then quickly. No, it didn't prevent every crises, but it has helped his behavior tremendously. I hope he will continue to see me as a problem-solver in his life.

[Jo * Smut-Dickted * · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this the most helpful book for my son once he turned more verbal. After age 6 or so. The concept of planning to interrupt and break patterns is quite genious. Planned sabotage..who would have thought of it? Anyway when you can set the setting right this book will give you a gold mine of ideas for how to help your verbal child. HIGHLY effective..I don't know about the research..I didn't do any fact checking on this one. This is one of the last books i purchased and I have not purchased many more since ...this one is just that good IMHO.

[Dawn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow. This book was a wonderful resource in both understanding and deliberately helping to stretch the aspies in my life. I wish I'd read this 20 years ago instead of figuring out or stumbling on so much by trial/error. There were also novel suggestions that I am looking forward to trying.

[Tara · Rating 4 out of 5]

This will be a sort of bible for me.

[Briana · Rating 5 out of 5]

“(Purchased) If you are talking about getting a handle on the anxiety that drives behavior as well as being at the root of sterotypic behavior, then Parenting Your Asperger Child (Sohn/Grayson)”

[Brynn D'Avello · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the most useful books when I first started learning about Asperger's. This book helped implement new strategies for making my son's life more routine.

[Sharon- · Rating 1 out of 5]

Out dated advice