Autism Solutions: How To Create A Healthy And Meaningful Life For Your Child

Autism Solutions: How To Create A Healthy And Meaningful Life For Your Child

For twenty years Dr. Ricki Robinson has been providing hope and help for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Her integrative, strengths-based approach to treatment includes a thorough evaluation of your child's medical, developmental, social, emotional, behavioral and educational issues to find the solutions that maximize your child's health and well-being.Autism Solutions gives parents a greater understanding of their child's unique learning, sensory and medical profile. Recognizing that no parent can do this alone, Dr. Robinson explains how to establish a team of professionals who can work with the child to give him or her the opportunity to live well, learn, interact and thrive.Autism Solutions covers a wide range of issues, including:? Helping your child relate, communicate and think? Recognizing and overcoming common health challenges? Effectively treating diseases and disorders that frequently accompany autism? Understanding how behavior can be a form of communication and how to "hear" what a child is telling you? Unlocking your child's full potentialAbout the AuthorRICKI G. ROBINSON, M.D., M.P.H., is a founding member of Cure Autism Now, and currently serves on the scientific advisory board of Autism Speaks, the world?s largest autism advocacy organization. She is also a co-director of the Descanso Medical Center for Development and Learning in LaCanada, California, a practice devoted to children and families affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders. She has appeared on the Today show, Larry King Live and Good America Health.Excerpt.