Helping Your Child with Autism: A Home Program from Chinese Medicine (Qigong Sensory Training)

Helping Your Child with Autism: A Home Program from Chinese Medicine (Qigong Sensory Training) by Louisa Silva. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780982128008.

This book is a comprehensive, how-to manual for parents on a home program that has been shown to improve symptoms of autism. The core part of the program is a fifteen-minute massage that parents give their child once a day for at least five months. The book gives detailed, easily understood, step-by-step instructions for parents on the Qigong Sensory Training treatment as well as information from Chinese medicine to help them understand their childs autism. It includes massage techniques to assist the child in making eye contact, in calming down, and in making transitions. A DVD demonstrating the massage and the Qigong Sensory Training techniques is included with the book. This massage can be given to typically developing children as well as children on the autism spectrum.