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Discovering Family Fun with an Autistic Child gives families a road map to rediscover joy, fun, and togetherness. It bypasses the information on therapy and advocacy that dominates other books in the category and puts the focus back on pure and simple family fun, featuring activities, adventures, and celebrations just for families living with autism. Activities include new kinds of backyard fun with exercise bikes and zip lines, surprisingly autism-friendly outings such as ice skating, a fun hideaway fort you can build in the living room, new twists on holiday celebrations that kids love, and much more.

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This book provided family members ways for them to enjoy their children and their family which is really what families dealing with autism need. - Dad of Divas Susan offers nugget after nugget of empowering wisdom about how to prepare, engage, and keep your atypical child in her or his zone of proximal development, while also creating a bridge to the world beyond your home. Her advice ranges from very specific ideas about what stand-by items to keep in your car, to general, over-arching ideas about building your own community around your special child and special family. In my opinion, her tips and advice pertain to all families and children. Her discussion about children's clothing, from both a sensory and motor planning standpoint, and as a visual way to communicate with other children, will assist parents with the challenge of how to dress their kids. Susan also gives great advice about how to create a cozy, organized home space tailored to your child's sensory needs. - Thinking Person's Guide to Autism Walton writes with an honest and experienced voice. - New York Journal of Books

Susan offers nugget after nugget of empowering wisdom about how to prepare, engage, and keep your atypical child in her or his zone of proximal development, while also creating a bridge to the world beyond your home. Her advice ranges from very specific ideas about what stand-by items to keep in your car, to general, over-arching ideas about building your own community around your special child and special family. In my opinion, her tips and advice pertain to all families and children. Her discussion about children's clothing, from both a sensory and motor planning standpoint, and as a visual way to communicate with other children, will assist parents with the challenge of how to dress their kids. Susan also gives great advice about how to create a cozy, organized home space tailored to your child's sensory needs. -- Thinking Person's Guide to Autism This book provided family members ways for them to enjoy their children and their family which is really what families dealing with autism need. -- Dad of Divas Walton writes with an honest and experienced voice. -- New York Journal of Books

Susan offers nugget after nugget of empowering wisdom about how to prepare, engage, and keep your atypical child in her or his zone of proximal development, while also creating a bridge to the world beyond your home. Her advice ranges from very specific ideas about what stand-by items to keep in your car, to general, over-arching ideas about building your own community around your special child and special family. In my opinion, her tips and advice pertain to all families and children. Her discussion about children's clothing, from both a sensory and motor planning standpoint, and as a visual way to communicate with other children, will assist parents with the challenge of how to dress their kids. Susan also gives great advice about how to create a cozy, organized home space tailored to your child's sensory needs. - Thinking Person's Guide to Autism This book provided family members ways for them to enjoy their children and their family which is really what families dealing with autism need. - Dad of Divas Walton writes with an honest and experienced voice. - New York Journal of Books

This book provided family members ways for them to enjoy their children and their family which is really what families dealing with autism need. - Dad of Divas Susan offers nugget after nugget of empowering wisdom about how to prepare, engage, and keep your atypical child in her or his zone of proximal development, while also creating a bridge to the world beyond your home. Her advice ranges from very specific ideas about what stand-by items to keep in your car, to general, over-arching ideas about building your own community around your special child and special family. In my opinion, her tips and advice pertain to all families and children. Her discussion about children's clothing, from both a sensory and motor planning standpoint, and as a visual way to communicate with other children, will assist parents with the challenge of how to dress their kids. Susan also gives great advice about how to create a cozy, organized home space tailored to your child's sensory needs. - Thinking Person's Guide to Autism Walton writes with an honest and experienced voice. - New York Journal of Books

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Susan Walton is the parent of a child with autism and a set of twins. After a 15-year career in magazine and book publishing, she began a new career as a parent and advocate to the special needs community in Northern California.

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