"Unlocking Neurodiversity: A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding and Embracing Brain Differences"

De: Lauro Amezcua Patino MD FAPA

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

This book provides a comprehensive guide for parents raising neurodivergent children, with a focus on embracing differences and cultivating love and understanding. It covers topics such as understanding neurodiversity, debunking misconceptions, obtaining professional help and diagnoses, building supportive home environments, navigating education, promoting emotional wellbeing, and advocating for neurodivergent rights. The overarching message is about accepting neurological differences, highlighting the strengths and talents of these children, and empowering parents to be loving advocates. Key themes include communication strategies, managing anxiety, accessing resources, fostering inclusion, celebrating accomplishments, finding community support, and promoting self-care. Overall, the book aims to provide knowledge, tools and encouragement to parents seeking to nurture their neurodivergent kids in a compassionate, strengths-based manner.

It Drinks the ABA Koolaid

I had high hopes for this book as something I could recommend to parents who didn't know where to turn after their children were diagnosed with autism. The early pages were by and large accurate and supportive of a strengths-based approach to raising autistic children. Unfortunately, when the author turns to therapy ABA is presented front and center as an acceptable intervention. There wasn't any mention of the drastic long-term results for the children subjected to this abuse.