Understanding Your High Functioning Autistic Child

A Parent’s Guide to Navigating the New Diagnosis, with Strategies to Help You and Your Child Thrive

By: Maureen M. Wilkinson

Narrated by: Kelley Sullivan

Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins

Publisher's summary

If you want your high-functioning autistic child to develop their social and emotional skills within six months, then keep reading.

Parenting is hard. Period. Parenting a high-functioning autistic child can be twice as challenging. Take it from a mom who knows and has stood in your shoes. Dealing with tantrums, meltdowns, self-regulation, and social and emotional barriers are all part and parcel of your life now, and you don’t want to be the parent that is unprepared.

According to the American Psychological Association, as of 2020, 66 percent of parents with autistic children are under stress that may impact their health-related quality of life - it is a stressful job. So if you are looking for advice, tips, and strategies to help you and your family, then this book is for you. In this book, you'll discover:

• The single most powerful tool to help understand your child better in less than five minutes.
• The most commonly made mistakes parents with a new high-functioning autism diagnosis make, which even the professionals make!
• How to overcome the battles with boundary-setting in three simple steps.
• Five things you can do right now to improve your home environment.
• Black-and-white information to help you choose the right school so your child feels at home while learning.
• Why you need to use your child’s interests to your advantage.
• How to rapidly transform your bedtime routine to get your child to sleep.
• The most honest advice to help you through your everyday life.
• And so much more...

©2021 Maureen M. Wilkinson (P)2021 Maureen M. Wilkinson

This is so much good information!

This is an excellent resource for understanding how to treat children with autism who attend my son's daycare. It discusses the difficulties kids experience and the steps their parents can take to properly nurture them. The narrator has a compassionate and informative tone that makes the information easy to comprehend. I strongly suggest this audiobook to parents who have autistic children or who want to learn more about autism.

Great information

I loved the information this book provided. I was able to implement it in my child's life immediately. The book ideas have made a instant difference in child , as well as my life. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

Autism Understood

I bought this book for my sister-in-law who works closely with high-functioning autistic children. She found this guide very helpful as it does a great job of providing strategies for working with these children to help developer their social and emotional skills. Now she understands more about sensory overload from this book, my sister-in-law has been able to implement some of the strategies outlined, which has significantly improved her relationships with the autistic children she works with.

Maureen's offers great advice and strategies on how to communicate with the child and offers tips on how to help them be successful in their day to day lives. This guide takes some of the stress away and provides effective strategies for managing everyday living with a high-functioning autistic individual. Highly recommended!

Super helpful audiobook!

Very thankful for this book. It’s full of helpful insights and has helped us immensely. If you have an autistic child, you need this book. It will help you in so many ways. I cannot recommend this book enough to anyone with an autistic child. It will change your home. Get it!

Special needs

I know a family with a high functioning autistic child that is now in his 20’s. The grandparents are taking care of him. It really is a gut punch when you think you have it bad and than you someone dealing with autism everyday. If you have low moments, just read this book and focus and take care of this child.

complete with everything you need to know

this is what you need to get into your child’s world and understand how they behave and an incredible smart person thy are. i am a therapist and this gave me more information to share with the parents of the children I treat. thanks

Very Detailed!

This is really a worth listening audiobook, it gives a lot of guidance in handling care for a child with autism. It's very detailed. As a Nurse, I can apply these to my patients with an autistic condition. Good job to the author, it is very helpful.

home away from home

This book was very eye-opening from top to bottom. The part I would like to highlight is choosing the right school. This is so important being that we are not with our children while they are away. Our parental instincts are to protect our child at all times but what happens when our autistic children go out into the real world and must fit in with their peers. There was a lot of insight into how to choose the proper school to send them to. Very helpful book overall.

Reassuring!

We’re going through testing right now for my son and I’ve been a mess trying to figure out how to help him. This book doesn’t just offer helpful info and strategies, but also the reassurance that we’re not alone. Thank you!

Awesome, thourough overview of strategies

This book helped me understand my own child, and the children of others that I interact with. With specific treatments, therapies, and ideas to make life smoother for all, I enjoyed the detailed information.