Book Recommendation for Parents of Autistic Kids

If you need a good holiday gift for the parent of an autistic child, check out my editing client Kathleen Jae's "From Prompting to Shaping to Letting Go: My Love Affair with ABA and How Being a 'Bad Mom.' Helped My Daughter with Autism Succeed."

Almost 25 years ago, a school administrator blurted “Only bad moms make their children work and won’t let them play” to Kathleen Jae, who had said she was going to use Applied Behavior Analysis to teach her just diagnosed three-year-old daughter with autism. Jae will be the first admit that at that time she did not know much about autism or ABA, but she understood enough to realize that behavioral therapy was the only way to teach her daughter to learn how to learn.

A quarter of a century later, more parents than ever are receiving the same diagnosis for their children, and ABA is still the only scientific-based intervention recommended for autism. In this book, Jae describes how and she and her daughter encountered a myriad of roadblocks along the way, but their tenacity and courage defeated the naysayers.

"From Prompting to Shaping to Letting Go" is available on Amazon.com.

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