A parents' ABC of the autism spectrum

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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