A Parents' ABC of the Autism Spectrum

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Covering everything from Anxiety to Fragile-X Syndrome, author Stephen Heydt, an experienced clinical psychologist, provides an alphabetical categorization of the possible issues a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may encounter.;A Parents' ABC of the Autism Spectrum by Stephen Heydt; For Parents; Autism Spectrum Disorder including Asperger's (ASD for short); A; Animals; Anxiety (see also Fight-flight); Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) (see also Early intervention, EIBI); Assessments; Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD); Awareness and self‑awareness -- see Insight; B; Behaviour; Bolting; Breathing; Bullying; C; Calm; Care; Celebration; Clothes; Cognitive Behavioural Therapy -- see Therapies; Communication; Comorbidity; Creativity and conceptual blindness; D; Death; Decisions (see also Fluid reasoning) A Parents' ABC of the Autism Spectrum by Stephen Heydt For Parents Autism Spectrum Disorder including Asperger's (ASD for short) A Animals Anxiety (see also Fight-flight) Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) (see also Early intervention, EIBI) Assessments Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Awareness and self‑awareness -- see Insight B Behaviour Bolting Breathing Bullying C Calm Care Celebration Clothes Cognitive Behavioural Therapy -- see Therapies Communication Comorbidity Creativity and conceptual blindness D Death Decisions (see also Fluid reasoning) Defecating (involuntary, unintentional, voluntary, encopresis, faecal incontinence) (see also Toileting)Depression Development Distress (see also Anxiety and Calm) E Early intervention (EIBI) Echolalia Emotions and regulation Empathy Encopresis -- see Defecating and Toileting Enuresis -- see Urinating and Toileting Executive function Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP) Eye contact F Facial blindness Faecal smearing and other unwanted behaviour Fight-flight (and freeze) (see also Anxiety) Film (social skills development technique) -- see Silent films Fluid reasoning Food. Friends and friendshipG Gait (see also Motor skills) Gender Gestures (Repetitive) (see also Stereotypies) Girls H Harm (self and other) Hearing (see also Language and Speech) Humour I Identity (and how it is developed) Idiosyncrasies (see also Quirky) Impulsivity Inappropriateness Inflexibility Insight Intelligence and IQ J Jumping, hopping or toe‑walking (see also Gait) L Labels -- diagnostic (see also Assessments) Language (see also Speech and Hearing) Learning Lying M Medication Meditation and mindfulness Meltdowns Memory Moods Motor skills. Mutism -- see Selective mutismN Naughty Neurological O Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Organisation P Pain Parenting Perfectionism (see also OCD) Perseverative -- see Stereotypies Play (including imaginative and rough-and-tumble) Procrastination Professionals Q Questioning (for children) Questioning (for parents) Quirky (see also Idiosyncrasies) R Reading Refusal Regression Reinforcement Repetitive -- see Stereotypies Restraining Rituals Routines S School Selective mutism Self-care -- see Care Self-harm -- see Harm and Pain Self-stimulatory -- see Stereotypies. Sensory sensitivities (see also Pain)Silent films Sleep Social skills Social StoriesTM Speech (see also Language) Special interests Stereotypies Synaesthesia -- see Sensory sensitivities T Technology (assistive and entertainment) Theory of Mind Therapies Tics Toileting Token reward systems Transitions U Understanding Unusual (see also Idiosyncrasies and Quirky) Urinating (involuntary urination, urinary incontinence, enuresis) (see also Toileting and Defecating) V Victory -- see Celebration W Writing X Fragile-X Syndrome (FXS) Y Why not? Z Zyzzyva Notes.