Facing Your Child's Autism Diagnosis
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Use Advocacy to Alleviate Denial
Advocacy for your child with autism can help you move past denial more quickly. Directing your energy toward an issue, rather than away from it, can be so empowering that it motivates you to do even more.
- Talk to someone you trust about what you are observing in your child. Find someone who will not try to persuade you to take a particular action, but will simply listen.
- Journal your observations. Review what you write three or four times a week.
- Make yourself familiar with the medical literature on autism and its many causes and symptoms.
- Attend a workshop or seminar on the topic. Getting more information will help you have a better understanding. Visit a preschool or classroom with typical children. Seeing other children who are comparable in age will help you have a frame of reference for your child's behavior.
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Excerpted from The Everyday Advocate: Standing Up for Your Child with Autism or Other Special Needs.
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