As a parent of an autistic child who has other diagnoses tagged on, I search and seek out to find amazing books in this target area. The deeper bonds that are needed with our children are long lasting but hard to achieve when autism is in the picture. We all try different tactics and techniques but reading others efforts helps give us parents some new insight to try out at home as well.

REVIEW: Ausome Parenting ⭐⭐⭐

As an educator, a mother to an eight-year-old son on the spectrum, and possibly being on the spectrum myself, I was excited to read this book. I am always looking for more information and tips on how to help my students, children, and even myself.

Ausome Parenting is an excellent guide for parents starting the journey with an autism spectrum disorder. It has a nice conversational tone, which makes it very easy to understand. I love that the author is very optimistic about Autism. There are many different tools and tips, including a section about schooling, IEPS, and even stories from other parents. Ausome Parenting is filled with great advice to help out any parent with a child on the spectrum.

There were two things in this book that I didn’t like. One was the use of the term “normal children” when comparing to those who are on the spectrum. Children on the spectrum are normal children. It would have been better to say neurotypical and neurodivergent. I also wasn’t a fan of the promotion of Autism Speaks. They have been shown not to help those on the spectrum, and there are even individuals who talk about the harm the organization brings to the ASD community.

Thank you, Netgalley and Ausome Parenting, for the free advanced copy for my honest review!

Thank you for writing this book.
As a parent of 4 autistic humans it was great. Thank you thank you thank you

As the grandparent of a child diagnosed with ADHD and as being "close to the spectrum," I was interested to read this book to learn about effectively interacting with my grandchild. This book gave me a good basic understanding of ASD and helped somewhat with my reason for reading it.

Although the author succeeded in achieving a conversational tone, which I appreciated, I found the writing to be somewhat amateurish. For example, at the end of each chapter, she described what the next chapter would discuss, then described the same information, albeit in different words, at the beginning of each chapter. I found that to be unnecessarily repetitious and a waste of time.

As I received an advance reader copy of this book from Net Galley, I can't help but hope that a great deal of editing was completed after I read the book and before publication.

A positive review was not required by Net Galley and the opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.

Gives a lot of advice and support to understanding autism. Good for those beginning the journey. I would have liked more for those who are maintaining their experiences though.