The Conscious Parent's Guide to Autism

A Mindful Approach for Helping Your Child Focus and Succeed

By: Marci Lebowitz

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Paperback | 1 January 2016

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Parenting a child with autism can be a very challenging yet rewarding experience. Children with autism require special strategies, and parents can find deeper connections with their child and the child's unique qualities through the practice of conscious parenting. With 'The Conscious Parent's Guide to Autism', parents will take a relationship centred approach to engage their child and will help their child to improve language skills, motor skills and social skills through mindful interactions. This easy to use, concise guide shows parents how to help their children:

Make eye contact, stay focused and strengthen motor skills
Communicate effectively with others
Learn calming routines to feel in control
Participate successfully in society
With this guide, parents will learn how to focus on the child's needs and build emotionally healthy relationships.

About the Author

Marci Lebowitz, OT is an autism specialist and occupational therapist. In her international private practice and training programs, Marci guides parents and professionals in ways to understand, calm and communicate with children with autism. She educates autism parents, extended families and professionals about the underlying causes of challenging behaviours, distinguishing between tantrums, sensory overload and melt downs and how to have fun with children with autism.

She is a contributing author to the popular website My Autism Team a social network for parents of kids with autism and is a featured writer for We Are Beautiful magazine and The Autism Notebook. Marci provides successful alternatives to physical managements and restraints through the use of her Sensory Overload System (SOS), which fully calms children in less than 10 minutes, allowing them to return to their activities relaxed.

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