Understanding Your Child with Autism

A Family Guide to the Spectrum, Support, and Helping Them Live Well as Themselves

von Ahmed Badawy

116 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Most parents read their first book about autism at night, on a phone, after somebody used the word for the first time.

Dr. Ahmed Badawy is a paediatrician and neonatologist. He wrote this book for that moment - and for the years afterwards.

It begins with what the evidence actually shows, including the things parents most need to hear in the first week: that autism is strongly heritable and not caused by anything you did, that vaccines do not cause it, and that the rise in diagnosis reflects better recognition rather than an epidemic.

Then it does something most books do not. It explains autism from the inside as well as the outside - because a child who is comprehensible is a child you can help.

Inside you will find:

Why the spectrum is a profile and not a line, and why "mild" and "severe" mislead in both directions.

The children nobody notices: why only about one in five autistic girls is diagnosed before age eleven, what masking costs, and why the child who is perfect at school falls apart at four o'clock.

The sensory world - the single biggest explanation for daily behaviour, including the two body senses almost nobody has heard of.

Why communication aids do not stop children speaking. Reviews found speech increased or unchanged; not one study found a decrease.

Meltdowns and shutdowns: why the trigger is rarely the cause, and why discipline does not work on either.

Interventions: what the evidence shows, what autistic adults say about it, and the eight questions to ask any provider before you agree to anything.

Why around 96 per cent of autistic children have a co-occurring condition - and why treating anxiety, sleep, pain or constipation often changes more than anything else.

School, siblings, adolescence, and building an adult life.

The goal of this book is not a less autistic child. It is an understood child, a communicating child, a less distressed child - and an adult who can live well as themselves.

Grounded in current evidence, with a full reference list. Written in plain English by a doctor who has spent his career with children.

• Reihe: Talented LLC
• ISBN: 9798952203129
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 16.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published