The Autism Language Launcher: A Parent's Guide to Helping Your Child Turn Sounds and Words into Simple Conversations

Our 3 year old buddy was recently diagnosed with severe autism. This book has already opened a portal into our sweetheart’s world and he is responding. I encourage every parent, grandparent or family member who has a child on the spectrum and non verbal to get this book. It will require your efforts. But so does any therapy out there. I promise your time is well spent and with quicker results here.

This book has changed our lives! Kate did a fantastic job imparting wisdom from her years of experience working with children on the Autism spectrum. This book is exciting, inspiring, hope giving, and practical. Anyone wanting to help their child with Autism should buy this book.

This is a book that I read with great wonder. At first I thought I shouldn't talk about this but if I don't, the misunderstanding among a few may cost them dearly. First of all, let me tell you about the things I don't agree with in this book. This book is written by Kate Wilde, director of the son rise program. Although autism is a neurological disorder, there are still a good percentage of educated people in the world who live with many misconceptions. For example, when a child does verbal stimulation or looks at his own fingers, science says that behind it is the mental stress that occurs inside the child, the block that occurs in its sensory integration, and the body and brain are doing some activities for overcome it. What is done through occupational therapy is to accelerate sensory integration through meaningful activities without leaving these meaningless activities to that way. Occupational therapy is pure scienceBut in this book, Kate Wide talks about such meaningless activities of child as one dimension Kate Wide says that no matter what kind of meaningless activity the child does, we should do it together with the children. I felt that Kate Wide had to look at this issue through the eyes of an ocuupational therapist too. Another thing that Kate Wide says, we should turn the child's verbal stims to any name of an object that starts with that particular letter and we should show the real object of that object. For example, Kate says that if the child says aaa, we should immediately make it an apple and show him the real apple. I don't think it's ever a sensible thing to transform a meaningless sensory stimulation sound to an object or word. *As per my view Before writing a book, she had to look at autism or Sensory processing disorder from many angles.* *But despite this, I have a lot of good opinion about this book.* This book really gives a lot of positive energy to our mind. One thing she says in this is about interactive attention span. It is a very correct thing to say that the child's interactive attention span should be increased. Interactive attention span is useful not only for speech therapy but also for sensory integration and bilateral coordination.Another thing she says is how maximum interactions with the child, games and acting in front of the child help them. What we need to understand is that these children are really helpless. Their brains are trying to figure out how to respond to the sensory inputs coming into them.There are 76 muscles in our face. When talking to them, facial expression changes and the speed of words will attract them to us. This will increase the interactive attention span. Because they can see and hear everything Kate Wide's techniques certainly have a lot to do with what I've said. What I have said is knowledges i gained from many books. Kate Wide's offers a variety of techniques for developing children's speech. We should praise children efforts as they progress in the language and this will motivate them to do more. We can go into the world of a child with sensory processing disorder and talk to him and guide him in the right direction, but we need to understand his problems. We need to understand his mind situation. If so, everything will be possible with you.whether it's Sensory Processing Disorder or Autism, What I have to say to all parents that you should read, the moment you understand what it is, then there will be a change in that child's situation. *In one word, really this book is an eye opener if we neglect out some information* . remember each book is an opinion of each person, so we can get a 3-dimensional view only when we read many. GK

Great book I brought this to help gain some insight into what’s possible after being disappointed with the help we had been given for our 5 year old it’s full of positive messages and practical steps to help any one of any age gain levels of speech

Great book, a must read for parents with autistic children, helpful. It clarifies why for example ASD children shouldn't use the PECS!