Winner of an iParenting Media Award and Honorable Mention in the 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards! Every parent, teacher, social worker, therapist, and physician should have this succinct and informative book in their back pocket. Framed with both humor and compassion, the book defines the top ten characteristics that illuminate the minds and hearts of children with autism. Ellen’s personal experiences as a parent, an autism columnist, and a contributor to numerous parenting magazines coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. Don’t buy just one of this book—buy one for everyone who interacts with your child! Give the gift of understanding.
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Binding: Paperback
Pages: 143
Book author, columnist, and mother of sons with autism and ADHD, Ellen Notbohm’s writings on autism and general interest subjects have been published on every continent (except Antarctica—yet). Her books, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew, and The Autism Trail Guide are ForeWord Book of the Year finalists. Both Ten Things books are also iParenting Media Award recipients. A regular columnist for Autism Asperger’s Digest magazine and Children’s Voice, she also co-authored with Veronica Zysk 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, a Learning Magazine 2006 Teachers’ Choice Award winner. Beyond autism, she is a frequent contributor to Ancestry magazine, has published political commentary in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers around the U.S., and writes for numerous regional and national magazines on a range of subjects. Ellen welcomes reader feedback and newsletter signs-ups through her website at www.ellennotbohm.com.
“Forget Letterman! This is the ultimate Top Ten list!”
Yvonne Christian, adult with Asperger’s and writer of the blog “Outside In”
"As the parent of a child in the autism spectrum, I see my own son throughout Ten Things."
Steve Boehm
Assistant Director of Publications
Editor in Chief, Children’s Voice Magazine
Child Welfare League of America
“Ellen captures the major issues of autism and makes them understandable and useable, even to those new to spectrum disorders…”
Nancy H. Cale, Vice President, Unlocking Autism
“You have taught me so much about my nephew’s world I could never have understood! I am so grateful for people like you who are blazing a trail for the children of tomorrow.”
Cheryl Wheeler, university library technician
“I have been working as an educator/therapist with children with autism for five years now and I feel a deep resonance with Ellen’s books, as the writings are based on the same system of belief that I have always tried to work from.”
Lindsay Ronald, intervention therapist
"Showing superb wisdom, experience, and articulation Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew has given us hope."
Victor’s grandpa
Atlanta, Georgia
"Read Ten Things. Absorb it. . . . Find your strength. Choose well for your child. Make all his wishes come true."
L.I. Thaut
Billings, MT
"[I] now have a clearer understanding of my little guy and the reasons things set him off . . . everything comes together."
A Mom-Mom
Wilmington, Delaware
“Fantastic! How clever to take the child’s perspective. . . I found myself not wanting the list to end.”
Annapolis, Maryland
“Truly amazing. When I was done reading, I felt like my knowledge of and understanding of these children I work with, and am about to dedicate my life’s work to, had at least doubled.”
Rochester, New York
“Priceless. It should be given to every organization that services children, including schools and churches.”
Fair Lawn, New Jersey
“Screams wisdom throughout every word and sentence.”
Bend, Oregon
“We do a lot of outreach and educating the public and professionals about the struggles families face, and [Ten Things] is a missing piece in our presentations.”
Grand Forks, North Dakota
“Powerful. What I like most is the compassion and understanding it shows, as perhaps only a mother of a child who struggles could show.”
Annapolis, Maryland
It Begins
Ten Things Every Child With Autism Wishes You Knew
Chapter 1: I am first and foremost a child
Chapter 2: My sensory perceptions are disordered
Chapter 3: Distinguish between won’t and can’t
Chapter 4: I am a concrete thinker. I interpret language literally
Chapter 5: Be patient with my limited vocabulary
Chapter 6: Because language is so difficult for me, I am very visually oriented
Chapter 7: Focus and build on what I can do rather than what I can’t do
Chapter 8: Help me with social interactions
Chapter 9: Identify what triggers my meltdowns
Chapter 10: Love me unconditionally
Forward
Acknowledgements
About the Author
