Moving Beyond Survival - The Early Years

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A parent of a child diagnosed with ASD can be overwhelmed exhausted and desperate for relevant factual helpful information that is useful and that makes sense.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Moving Beyond Survival - The Early Years: How We Thrive With Autism</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a quick easy read relating our family's experiences life lessons and suggestions for raising a confident and happy autistic child. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As you read this book - starting from before our son's first breath through his sixth year - follow us through our son's ASD diagnosis our early intervention service experiences and the five-week outpatient admissions and methods for adjusting our son's eating aversions.  Walk with us through his three years of public preschool progressing into a year of full-day kindergarten.  This book offers advice on the difference between an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) and a 504 plan suggestions for managing a successful family vacation and ways to help your child make and keep friendships.  Finally it finishes with a candid discussion of our marriage and the vital importance of finding joy and keeping humor as part of the fabric of your life.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This story informs inspires and can provoke you to think differently about your child's ASD diagnosis.  Know that this is not the end of the world - just the start of a journey that can be a truly rewarding experience and can change who you believe your child and yourself to be forever.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Walk our path with us and let me share how you and your family can survive and thrive in this world of ASD.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>