An interactive, beautifully illustrated workbook to help young people with PDA understand their diagnosis and build their own personalised problem-solving strategies
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Dr Glòria Durà-Vilà is a consultant child and adolescent
psychiatrist with a special clinical interest in PDA. She is
passionate about the importance of communicating ASD and PDA
diagnoses to children and parents in the best possible way.
Tamar Levi is an award-winning artist and illustrator of
numerous children's books including My Autism Book, The Philosophy
Shop and The If Odyssey. She has studied child psychology, and is
an expert in how to use picture books to communicate complex ideas
to children.
I think that one of the best ways to help your PDA child is to
support them to gain insight in a nonjudgmental and open way.
Helping them communicate this to you helps them feel understood and
then empowers you as their advocate. It also helps you as the
parent see all those truly wonderful positives about your PDA
child. This book provides a wonderful framework for doing that.
*Cassandra Davies, parent of a young person with PDA and member of
PDA Action Group Somerset and PDA, Pathological Demand Avoidance
Support – Families & Practitioners UK*
Insightful, helpful, encouraging, hopeful and compassionate from
beginning to end!
Realising that your child may have, or has recently been diagnosed
with, ASD with a profile of PDA can be a daunting and overwhelming
experience for many parents. But, help is now at hand in the form
of this refreshing and unique addition to the current range of PDA
literature. I sincerely wish that this book had been available when
myself and my daughter first began navigating this most complex of
journeys and I can't recommend it highly enough to those who are
now beginning, or struggling in theirs.
*Jane Sherwin, author of 'Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome:
My Daughter is not Naughty'*
It is a sensitive book based on an excellent understanding of PDA,
which is probably the hardest form of Autism, and so exhausting for
the children, young people and families that it affects. I cannot
recommend it highly enough.
*Sarah Wild, Headteacher of Limpsfield Grange*
This book is a very valuable addition to the PDA library. Part
self-help guide, part gentle workbook, it's presented in a really
positive, accessible style which most importantly puts the young
person with PDA in the driving seat.
*The PDA Society.*
This publication provides a starting point for a conversation with
the child about their form of autism and how it is part of their
unique personality and profile. The accessible and informative
style will provide an invaluable resource to anyone looking to
support a child in developing his or her self-awareness
*Phil Christie, Consultant Child Psychologist, author of
‘Understanding Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome. A Guide for
Parents, Teachers and Other Professionals’.*
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