Developing Differently: A Guide for Parents of Young Children with Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism
Parenting isn't easy, and parenting a child with a Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism can be challenging. However, a lot of parenting strategies are straightforward once you get your head around them. With the right knowledge, environment, interactions, responses and understanding, you can help reduce your child's anxiety, build their confidence, and help them develop learning and communication skills.
Based on his work as a Clinical Psychologist working with children developing differently, Dr Joshua Muggleton provides a comprehensive, step-by-step parenting plan that will support you to embed good practice at home from day one. The book outlines how to provide the right environment for your child to learn and grow, how to model and encourage new skills, how to organise routines, and how to make these strategies work in family life. By getting things right for your child early on, you can help prevent emotional and behavioural challenges before they arise, and will be better able to understand and support your child when they do. These strategies are designed to work across all neurodevelopmental conditions, and take into account co-occurring conditions such as ADHD, meaning none of the advice in the book requires your child to have a specific diagnosis. It also includes downloadable examples of charts, how-to guides for creating visual resources tailored to your child's individual needs, and downloadable chapters on sleep and siblings.

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Developing Differently: A Guide for Parents of Young Children with Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism
Parenting isn't easy, and parenting a child with a Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism can be challenging. However, a lot of parenting strategies are straightforward once you get your head around them. With the right knowledge, environment, interactions, responses and understanding, you can help reduce your child's anxiety, build their confidence, and help them develop learning and communication skills.
Based on his work as a Clinical Psychologist working with children developing differently, Dr Joshua Muggleton provides a comprehensive, step-by-step parenting plan that will support you to embed good practice at home from day one. The book outlines how to provide the right environment for your child to learn and grow, how to model and encourage new skills, how to organise routines, and how to make these strategies work in family life. By getting things right for your child early on, you can help prevent emotional and behavioural challenges before they arise, and will be better able to understand and support your child when they do. These strategies are designed to work across all neurodevelopmental conditions, and take into account co-occurring conditions such as ADHD, meaning none of the advice in the book requires your child to have a specific diagnosis. It also includes downloadable examples of charts, how-to guides for creating visual resources tailored to your child's individual needs, and downloadable chapters on sleep and siblings.

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Developing Differently: A Guide for Parents of Young Children with Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism

Developing Differently: A Guide for Parents of Young Children with Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism

by Joshua Muggleton
Developing Differently: A Guide for Parents of Young Children with Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism

Developing Differently: A Guide for Parents of Young Children with Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism

by Joshua Muggleton

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Overview

Parenting isn't easy, and parenting a child with a Global Developmental Delay, Intellectual Disability, or Autism can be challenging. However, a lot of parenting strategies are straightforward once you get your head around them. With the right knowledge, environment, interactions, responses and understanding, you can help reduce your child's anxiety, build their confidence, and help them develop learning and communication skills.
Based on his work as a Clinical Psychologist working with children developing differently, Dr Joshua Muggleton provides a comprehensive, step-by-step parenting plan that will support you to embed good practice at home from day one. The book outlines how to provide the right environment for your child to learn and grow, how to model and encourage new skills, how to organise routines, and how to make these strategies work in family life. By getting things right for your child early on, you can help prevent emotional and behavioural challenges before they arise, and will be better able to understand and support your child when they do. These strategies are designed to work across all neurodevelopmental conditions, and take into account co-occurring conditions such as ADHD, meaning none of the advice in the book requires your child to have a specific diagnosis. It also includes downloadable examples of charts, how-to guides for creating visual resources tailored to your child's individual needs, and downloadable chapters on sleep and siblings.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787759978
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 06/21/2022
Pages: 288
Product dimensions: 5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Dr Joshua Muggleton is a Clinical Psychologist. He is also autistic, and from a neurodiverse family. From an early age he was interested in how and why he and other young people saw the world differently. Combining this personal interest with academia, he gained undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Psychology, including a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the University of Edinburgh. Since qualifying, Josh has been working exclusively with children and young people developing differently, many of whom have developmental delays, physical health issues, or neurodevelopmental conditions such as Intellectual Disability, Autism, or ADHD.

Table of Contents

Foreword Tony Attwood 9

Acknowledgements 12

Introduction 13

Where it begins 14

Why I wrote this 15

How to use this book 15

Recommended reading 18

Disclaimer 19

Step 1 Acceptance and Self-Care 21

Acceptance 21

You are enough 28

Values 32

Looking after yourself 38

Looking after your relationships 45

Looking after your friendships 49

Getting support 51

Step 2 The Right Knowledge 59

Understanding Autism 61

Understanding Intellectual Disability 65

Understanding Global Developmental Delay 70

Understanding ADHD 73

Understanding sensory sensitivities 77

Understanding physical health 79

The ESSENCE of neurodevelopment disorders 83

Understanding attachment 87

Understanding child development 91

Understanding how children learn 96

Understanding how children communicate 103

Understanding anxiety 109

Step 3 The Right Environment 115

Defining your own normal 116

Why routines are important 121

Turning your normal into a routine 124

Implementing your routine 128

Setting child focused, reasonable expectations 134

Visual timers 139

Modelling behaviour 142

Creating personal space 144

Sensory sensitivities 149

Screens 154

Step 4 The Right Interaction 161

Attention 163

Play 168

Play to learn 173

Listening to your child 178

Reciprocity 181

Using language 186

Feelings talks 190

Step 5 The Right Response 195

Containment 197

Rewards 202

Praise 209

Calmness 212

Rewarding the good, ignoring the 'bad' 214

Logical consequences 218

Consistency 224

Step 6 The Right Understanding 229

Key questions to ask yourself 230

The five key functions 237

STAR charts and frequency charts 239

Develop skills, don't punish ignorance 244

How to teach skills 249

Expanding comfort zones 253

Managing anxiety 255

Facing fears 260

How to face fears 264

Managing meltdowns 269

Finding your RAG 276

Final Words 281

Index 285

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