Coping Skills for Children with Autism

The transcription discusses the challenges faced by parents of autistic children, including social distress, lack of support, and anxiety. It emphasizes the importance of coping skills for both the parent and the child. The book mentioned in the transcription offers detailed coping strategies, signs of ASD, differentiation between tantrums and meltdowns, motivating techniques, goal-setting strategies, speech therapy exercises, sensory activities, and more. Overall, it provides guidance on helping the child progress and handle various situations. Are you avoiding social occasions or play dates because you are afraid of how your autistic child will behave? Do you stay up late at night worried that your child may struggle to make friends or progress academically? Do you worry that successful therapies for your child may involve time and money that you just don't have? If the answer to these questions is yes, know that you are not alone. A 2018 study showed that the parents of children with ASD experience more psychological distress and lower social support than parents of neurotypical children. They may also struggle with problems like anxiety. You may be so overloaded with advice, information, and warnings from parents or friends that you feel frozen in the spot. But it is precisely when you feel most overburdened that the right coping skills can get you out of your rut. And the same applies to your child. You want your child to progress in leaps and bounds, and this book will help you do just that by equipping them with the necessary coping skills to handle any situation. Within its pages, you'll discover detailed coping strategies that will reduce your child's stress and enable them to take the reins of their own emotions, seven plus signs that your child may have ASD and why you should act quickly if you spot them, how to differentiate between a tantrum and a meltdown and why it matters, structured choices that can motivate your child to cooperate with you, goal-setting strategies that work for autistic kids, engaging exercises that will take your child to the next level of body awareness, motor skills, coordination, and strength, creative speech therapy exercises that seem more like play than work, how to halt anxiety in its tracks with calming techniques like infinity breathing, how to make a bouquet of shredded flowers, and many more engaging indoor activities for your kids with autism, how to unlock your child's potential with sensory activities, music, and soothing toys, and much more.