Customer Reviews
Parenting Your Asperger Child 
2008-04-07
My "child" is almost eighteen, but this is an informative and useful book with many clues and ideas into the workings of the Asperger brain and functionality. It has already helped me in gaining an understanding and ability to work better with helping my son to move forward in his abilities. I first checked it out at my local library but wanted a copy I could highlight and refer to often. Great resource book.
Very helpful and postive 2008-01-13
This book is very helpful and positive. I really like books that are positive, and that tell you about solutions to problems.
As someone with Asperger's Syndrome myself, I know that if there had been books like this 30 years ago, I would have learned much earlier in life what things are appropriate to do and say in what situation. It's too bad that there were no books like this until very recent years!
Categorize, medicate and ignore real issues 
2007-09-03
This book reads like a school psychologist wrote it whose goal is NOT to help our children but to make the child calm down for the teacher and the rest of the kids in class. It's not for parents, especially if you are not for medicating your child. I have read numerous books on Asperger's and this one is NOT on my list as a must see.
Look for information that talks about WHY the child is having the behaviors or anticedents to behaviors and how to help the child DEAL with the behaviors: Tony Attwood, Carol Grey, Michelle Garcia Winner, and anything you can find on sensory isues which can be a HUGE reason for many of your child's symptoms. Anyone that TREATS THE BEHAVIOR is NOT TREATING THE CHILD but MAKING THEIR LIFE EASIER.
Can't I give it more stars? 2007-02-05
I'd give it a ten, no doubt about that. This book, along with the Oasis Guide to AS have a permanent spot on my bookshelf. Actually, it is always laying around for me to pick up and look at again and again.
I love the practical language suggestions-
I'm a problem solver, and I'm here to help.
Let it go.
Move on.
Just the kind of language a child with AS can understand.
The strategies suggested in the book are overwhelming- at first. I found that our son has quickly learned ways to adapt and control his outbursts. I just wish I had known about this book five years ago!
Well worth any amount of money, and definately recommended!
Language Skills are a Prerequisite 
2006-08-12
This whole book is based on the assumption that your child has very developed language skills. Here's a quote from the introduction on page 6, "However, those children who do not have at least average language and intellectual ability will have more difficulty understanding the language-based solutions that form the basis of our program."
Why was this important fact excluded from the front cover, back cover, or book description? I had to buy the book to find out that this form of therapy wouldn't work for my child. I was really disappointed.
Excellent Book for Parents of an Asperger's Child 2006-06-14
Asperger's Syndrome is a form of autism--but with the right guidance, these children can go on to live happy, fulfilling lives.
In
Parenting Your Asperger Child, Dr. Alan Sohn's and Cathy Grayson's groundbreaking Cognitive Social Integration Therapy (CSIT) offers practical solutions that help parents prepare their children for a fulfilling life of social interaction outside the confines of their syndrome, addressing such topics as:
- The six characteristics of Asperger's Syndrome
- How to identify a child's type of Asperger's--and the best approaches for dealing with it
- Understanding how an Asperger's child sees and interprets the world
- Replacing inappropriate coping techniques with productive skills
- How to survive and learn from a crisis
- How school programs can aid in teaching Asperger children - Making changes that last
Parenting Your Asperger Child Best Book I have found! 2006-03-20
I purchased this book because I was looking for a few ideas for assisting my son and got a lot more than I had even hoped for. This book gives an overview of the many types of asperger traits and how these traits might play out in real life. For instance, my son is an emotional high anxiety Aspie, and this book provides actual type conversations with each type of asperger child. I found the conversations helpful because they taught me the best method of asking questions and of assisting my son to a less emotional state.
I would highly recommend this book to anyone needing more directed information. Absolutely wonderful book; easy to read and comprehend.
Not what I had hoped for 
2006-02-16
I feel this book is best written for someone working one-on-one at all times. The book did not feel practical to me as I homeschool and have a toddler in the home. I have to admit I did not read the entire book. The suggestions that I did read seemed that they would work great in a therapist's office or at school.
Great suggestions, but NOT an AS parenting overview 2006-02-02
The title of this book would lead you to think it's about, well, parenting your AS child. However, it's much more focused than that---it's almost all about managing difficult behaviors that your child with AS shows. It's very good at what it does---the suggestions are very solid and very practical. However, they have the feel of ideas that would work much better in a classroom or a therapy session than at home. The book makes little to no mention of so many aspects of home life with Aspergers---siblings being one I find very significantly omitted, probably because you don't need to deal with siblings of a child at school or at therapy.
I liked the breakdown of different types of kids with AS (called things like Anxiety Boy). I haven't often seen it acknoledged how different kids with AS are from each other.
I think my main complaint about this book was its completely humorless tone. It seemed to see life with an AS child as an extremely serious and tough life---one where we must be vigilent every moment to make sure we handle the tough realities of their behavior correctly. That's not how I see my life, and I know a lot of other parents with kids with AS, and I can say that we mainly are a crowd that does enjoy life, even with our quirky kids!
I think this book is worth a read---it has great suggestions and is obviously well researched and written by professionals who care about kids. But it over-reaches if it aims to be a guide to parenting these complex and wonderful kids.
Best book on AS I have ever read! 2005-09-29
WOW! This is by far the best book on AS I have ever read - and I have read a LOT of them in the 5 years since my son was diagnosed. Dr. Sohn has such a wonderful and tremendous insight into how people with AS view the world - and how those around them can help them the best. He has such simple practical strategies to offer - and I can tell you from experience now that they really do work! The world of AS would be a darker place without Dr. Sohn- This is a MUST have book for all parents and educators of AS kids!
