The ASD Feel Better Book: A Visual Guide to Help Brain and Body for Children on the Autism Spectrum

I am autistic. Daughter (7yo) is autistic too. Wife is somewhat neurotypical and fiercely bright, but sometimes struggles to understand our behaviour. I now understand how I feel and can articulate, but struggle to instruct my daughter as I do not know how I learned to tune my senses into social norm - probably a slow, pain-mediated process I want to spare my daughter of. This book is slowly fixing that, as we now have visual guidelines to follow. I am grateful to the authors because we can access precious information presented well and at a fair price.What I do not understand is the fixation with the jigsaw in the illustration of autism here - a neurotypical device perhaps, on the cover of a book tailored to ASD people? I personally find those jigsaw logos visually overwhelming and very displeasing.

This is a great book. Probably best suited to over six year olds.It has sections about your body, how it and you feel, examples from others and ways to feel better.Plus there is a section of worksheets at the end with a good feel better game (which could be a communication tool).This book helps children to understand themselves and options for feeling better.

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This is a lovely book that will help a lot of children and young people.

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This is exactly what we need right now during COVID times. It isn't just a book for ASD children but all children. I am a big fan of this author and have many of his books and have never been disappointed. Brilliant.

Thank you

A very good step-by-step approach to help kids learn how not to be overwhelmed in stressful situations.

My son is 10 and he was not into this book at all. The only real value he got from it is that other people feel the same as him enough that someone wrote a book about it.