A Parents' ABC of the Autism Spectrum

A Parents\' ABC of the Autism Spectrum by Stephen Heydt
 For Parents
 Autism Spectrum Disorder including Asperger\'s (ASD for short)
 A
 Animals
 Anxiety (see also Fight-flight)
 Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA) (see also Early intervention, EIBI)
 Assessments
 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
 Awareness and self‑awareness --
see Insight
 B
 Behaviour
 Bolting
 Breathing
 Bullying
 C
 Calm
 Care
 Celebration
 Clothes
 Cognitive Behavioural Therapy --
see Therapies
 Communication
 Comorbidity
 Creativity and conceptual blindness
 D
 Death
 Decisions (see also Fluid reasoning) Defecating (involuntary, unintentional, voluntary, encopresis, faecal incontinence) (see also Toileting)Depression
 Development
 Distress (see also Anxiety and Calm)
 E
 Early intervention (EIBI)
 Echolalia
 Emotions and regulation
 Empathy
 Encopresis --
see Defecating and Toileting
 Enuresis --
see Urinating and Toileting
 Executive function
 Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
 Eye contact
 F
 Facial blindness
 Faecal smearing and other unwanted behaviour
 Fight-flight (and freeze) (see also Anxiety)
 Film (social skills development technique) --
see Silent films
 Fluid reasoning
 Food. Friends and friendshipG
 Gait (see also Motor skills)
 Gender
 Gestures (Repetitive) (see also Stereotypies)
 Girls
 H
 Harm (self and other)
 Hearing (see also Language and Speech)
 Humour
 I
 Identity (and how it is developed)
 Idiosyncrasies (see also Quirky)
 Impulsivity
 Inappropriateness
 Inflexibility
 Insight
 Intelligence and IQ
 J
 Jumping, hopping or toe‑walking (see also Gait)
 L
 Labels --
diagnostic (see also Assessments)
 Language (see also Speech and Hearing)
 Learning
 Lying
 M
 Medication
 Meditation and mindfulness
 Meltdowns
 Memory
 Moods
 Motor skills. Mutism --
see Selective mutismN
 Naughty
 Neurological
 O
 Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
 Organisation
 P
 Pain
 Parenting
 Perfectionism (see also OCD)
 Perseverative --
see Stereotypies
 Play (including imaginative and rough-and-tumble)
 Procrastination
 Professionals
 Q
 Questioning (for children)
 Questioning (for parents)
 Quirky (see also Idiosyncrasies)
 R
 Reading
 Refusal
 Regression
 Reinforcement
 Repetitive --
see Stereotypies
 Restraining
 Rituals
 Routines
 S
 School
 Selective mutism
 Self-care --
see Care
 Self-harm --
see Harm and Pain
 Self-stimulatory --
see Stereotypies. Sensory sensitivities (see also Pain)Silent films
 Sleep
 Social skills
 Social StoriesTM
 Speech (see also Language)
 Special interests
 Stereotypies
 Synaesthesia --
see Sensory sensitivities
 T
 Technology (assistive and entertainment)
 Theory of Mind
 Therapies
 Tics
 Toileting
 Token reward systems
 Transitions
 U
 Understanding
 Unusual (see also Idiosyncrasies and Quirky)
 Urinating (involuntary urination, urinary incontinence, enuresis) (see also Toileting and Defecating)
 V
 Victory --
see Celebration
 W
 Writing
 X
 Fragile-X Syndrome (FXS)
 Y
 Why not?
 Z
 Zyzzyva
 Notes.