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A groundbreaking, long overdue book that explains how to identify your autistic child’s strengths and abilities and then use them as a tool for social communication, improved learning, and overall growth.

The strengths of children and young adults diagnosed with ASD are commonly overlooked, even by trained professionals. Outdated attitudes, lack of sufficient training and an overreliance on standardised testing works against recognising their capabilities.

Focusing on the importance of motivation strategies, Hidden Strengths shows you how to build on every autistic child’s interests and strengths. Through real-life stories of individuals whose innate abilities blossomed once they were acknowledged, this book dispels unhelpful stereotypes and will help you unlock your child’s potential. It also aims to educate the wider community in how to support, accept and embrace the gifts autistic individuals offer.


‘Will help both parents and teachers find and develop a child’s unique skills in memory, music, math, art, and attention to details. Development of these skills can lead to both a more rewarding life and possible careers’ Temple Grandin, PhD, New York Times bestselling author

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Well written and understandable, this volume will become must-reading in the field
Fred R Volkmar MD, Irving B. Harris Professor Of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology Yale University
Will help both parents and teachers find and develop a child's unique skills
Temple Grandin, PhD, Professor, Colorado State University, Author of Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstraction
Does an outstanding job of helping parents recognize the strengths of their children
Edwin H Cook Jr MD, UIC Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry, University of Illinois at Chicago
Provide[s] families with a wide range of valuable strategies and supports that can be used to help autistic children nurture their talents, succeed academically, and improve their overall quality of life
Zack Williams, autistic self-advocate and autism researcher
Provide[s] a practical and inspirational guide for parents and caregivers raising children on the spectrum. I could not agree more with the premise.
Daniel Geschwind M.D. Ph.D, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Distinguished Professor, Neurology Psychiatry and Human Genetics at UCLA, Senior Associate Dean and Associate Vice Chancellor, Precision Health, Director, Institute of Precision Health
Provides excellent guidance to parents in their journey of supporting their children and making sure they reach their full potential
Antonio Hardan, MD, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine
A essential read for families, professionals and people with ASD
Stephen Camarata, PhD , Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences and a Professor of Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
A must-have for all parents of autistic children looking for effective ways to find and nurture their child's unique strengths
Angela Scarpa, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology and Director of the Virginia Tech Autism Clinic & Center for Autism Research
Will be illuminating and inspiring to all who seek a deeper understanding of autism
John R. Weisz, Ph.D., ABPP, Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University
Rarely have I seen a text that more strongly and decisively demolishes into smithereens the harmful and self-fulfilling societal belief that autism is a lifetime sentence of disability
Ami Klin, PhD. Director, Marcus Autism Center, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar, The Bernie Marcus Distinguished Chair in Autism, Professor & Chief, Division of Autism and Related Disorders Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine Center for Translational Social Neuroscience, Emory University