Thinking it Through: Providing Support For Children and Teenagers with Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Star rating: 4/5.

Beth Tarleton with Narcie Kelly and Fiona Macaulay, Norah Fry Research Centre & Shared Care Network
ISBN 1874291276, £12

This is an informative pack, giving practical examples of how people can better support young people with autistic spectrum disorder, writes Mark Houston. This guidance would be useful to anyone who works with autistic children.

The pack would be particularly useful to parents of autistic children struggling to understand their children’s behaviour and give them the correct support.

It gives the reader a clear insight into the ways in which autistic children view the world differently, but also strongly emphasises the fact that all autistic children are different so that services must always be adapted to the individual’s needs.

Mark Houston is a care leaver who was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome as a teenager.