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Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum: Overcoming the Challenges and Celebrating the Gifts (Paperback)

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By Eileen Riley-Hall, Shana Nichols (Foreword by)
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Description


This book is a celebration of all the wonderful and unexpected gifts that having a daughter on the autism spectrum can bring to a family. Each chapter offers encouragement and guidance on issues such as school, friendships, meltdowns, special gifts, family relationships, therapies and interventions. Having daughters on the spectrum presents unique and rewarding challenges and this book is packed with friendly advice and real life examples from a mother who has experienced it all first hand.

This positive, upbeat book is guaranteed to offer support to parents, grandparents and family members, as well as providing educators and anyone else working in a supporting role with an insight into what life is like for girls on the spectrum and their parents.

About the Author


Eileen Riley-Hall is the mother of two teenage girls, one with Asperger Syndrome and the other with Autism. She is a high school English teacher at an inclusive public school in New York State and has worked with special needs students from preschool through to high school, in various settings, for over 25 years.

Product Details
ISBN: 9781849058933
ISBN-10: 1849058938
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication Date: April 15th, 2012
Pages: 256
Language: English