Parenting Help for Autistic Children

You may feel frustrated and start to lose hope, lose control and loss patience when seeing no big improvements with your child. DON'T GIVE UP. If you give up, there will be lesser hope for your children and all your initial efforts will be wasted.

Instead, MOVE ON, PRESSED ON, live everyday to discover new ways to handle and improve your child situation.

STOP for a while and lean back a bit if you are too tired but don't give up. There are plenty of helps and support that people are willing to give.

Just a group or forum with similar situation. Find comfort in knowing that you are not alone. People are willing to share and give you some pointers in dealing with some tricky situation. You could also give some feedback and helps others out, in this way, you may find a new meaning in life.




Here are a couples of very good community that you would like to join and benefit out of it:

• Autism-PDD Message Boards - This is the best forum to join where there are tons of information regarding autism and . Look into "Hangout with Friends" section where you may start to find some new found friends who could share your thoughts. Dive into "Updates and Success" and share some of your updates and success so far of your efforts and also get some cheers back in return.
  
  
• Autism Parents
  A forum with various topics relating to autism. Autism topics ranging from Education, TV, medical issues, books and other resources. Although this forum is from UK, anyone can join and find good information including US-linked resources. Joining is straight forward and easy and could be done in just 1 mins.
  

Are you already a facebook member? Facebook has already become the in-thing and cool-thing to have in the internet world. Not only will you be able to connect to your friends via facebook, you are able to connect to like-minded people having the same interests and making friends online.

You will be amazed at the number of parents who have the same challenges as you in facebook and already a great number of communities already setup virtually in the facebook. They share tips and give support to each others and a pat to your back for some of your successes. Why not, join the facebook groups and start your new experience of tackling autism?

If you have not been to facebook, just go to facebook and create an account in less than 3 minutes. Once you are logged on, searched for terms such as "autism support" and click on the tab "group" to check out the group(s) that you like to join. Look around at the members and description before join. Once you join, the group(s) you selected will appear in your profile. You could start your communication with your group immediately or browse through the contributions by the other members.

Just click on the link below and you will be directed to there, click "Join" if you are interested. If you first time facebook, you just click on the "sign up" button to begin. I have listed here some of the groups that you might interested. This will save you a bit of searching. Have fun and start a new way of tackling autism.

1. Support families with autism
   Description: Set up this group so families can chat about their problems. I know each child with autism can be so different but sometimes you just need to talk. ">



2. Autism: Support Needed!
   Description:This group is designed to help those living with Autism.



3. Advice4Autism
   Description: There are so many people giving advice on their programs to help the children with Autism in school and education. Those are great and I support those whole-heartedly. To me, helping an Autistic child in their school years is one of the most important matters a parent will have to work with.
   
   However, this isn't that kind of group. I'm not going to suggest what learning program or therapies is gonna best help out a child with Autism. What my advice group is about is dealing with the real world issues that children and adults with Autism, or people who have been affected by Autism, deal with on a daily basis.
   
   I'm here to help you guys with family issues, relationship issues, work issues, legal issues (disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer, Don't take my advice in exchange for legit legal advice from a trained legal councellor), suicide issues and other problems that may come up.
   



4. Parents of Autistic Children
   Description: A place for parents of autistic children to chew the fat, compare notes, and generally support one another. Also for people who don't understand , to get an idea of what it is like, and learn more about autism. Hopefully offer some support to one another?
   
   
5. Autism Online SupportGroup
   Description: For parents who cant make it to regular Autism support groups due to lack of babysitting, travelling, etc........
   Great place to come and discuss options on what you can do to overcome obstacles.
   Everyone is welcome!
   
   
6. Families with Autism
   Description: This group is for anyone, whether they have autism themselves, have a relation or friend with autism and want to know how to support them or just want to help to make people more aware of autism!
   



7. Autism support group for friends and family
   Description: This is a place where highschool and college students can learn more about Autism. My brother is 19 and severely autistic and I know that I've been through something that most people don't know about. This is a place where friends and family members can connect to talk about their experiences, memories, and ideas.
   
   
   
   
   
8. Parents of Autistic children
   Description: Receiving a diagnosis of autism can be devastating to some parents. Many parents can be overwhelmed by fear and grief for the loss of the future they had hoped for their child. No one expects to have a child with a developmental disability. A diagnosis of autism can be very upsetting. Joining parent support groups may help. However, these strong emotions also motivate parents to find effective help for their children. The diagnosis is important because it can open the doors to many services, and help parents learn about treatments that have benefited similar children.
   

Sometimes, we just feel much better after reading how much worst other people had went through and how much more efforts they have invested. Good to read stories that motivate you gains some strengths from them and uplift your spirits.

* Our Journey Through High Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome: A Roadmap
* Breaking Autism''s Barriers: A Father''s Story
* Mother Warriors: A Nation of Parents Healing Autism Against All Odds
* Parent to Parent: Information and Inspiration for Parents Dealing With Autism and Asperger's Syndrome

There are many forums and groups out there trying to help and give advice. However, nothing beats becoming a membership of a professionally run forum which is run by therapists treating autism themselves.

Ask Questions and Interact with Autism Therapists Inside the Member's Forum Plus Get Access to Tons of Helpful Articles, Videos, Audios and Much More.
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Here are some of the sampling you could get in this forum, which as parents we are facing this and now there are already answers for it.

• Communicating With Schools (Audio) - In this audio, Kelli gives some tips for how to communicate with teachers, counselors and school administrators during difficult situations at school.
  
• Unexpected Outbursts and Asperger's (Audio) - In this audio, Kelli talks about a child with Asperger's who had a meltdown when his parent's least expected it and she provided some ideas for how parents can handle and prevent these types of situations.
  
• Getting Your Family Onboard (Article) - In this article, Tara gives some ideas on how you can get your extended family to understand and support your family after you have received your Autism or Asperger's diagnosis.
  
• Autism Eating Challenges (Forum Discussion) - In this forum post, you will learn about one parent's frustration over her child's overeating habits and Tara's suggestions for how to handle the situation.
  
• Handling Disputes with Teachers (Forum Discussion) - In this forum post, one parent discusses her dispute with her child's school teacher and both Kelli and Tara offer suggestions for handling the dispute.

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