10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Child With Autism : Sourcebooks : 9781402209185 : 1402209185 : 01 Mar 2007 : "All children with autism have ways of dropping into their own world, leaving us behind for a minute, an hour, a day." This is the essence of autism: a disorder that is, at its heart, about interaction. Many of the symptoms associated with autism come from either a lack of paying attention to other people or a lack of interest in joining in with the rest of the world. Because this is the case, it is important that when you work with your child, you are addressing the core issue of autism: your child, for one reason or another, is not spending enough time in our interactive world. What You Can Do Right Now to Help Your Child with Autism gives you the best techniques you can do ? right now ? to work with your child and draw him or her back into our interactive world. The ten techniques in the book are not just explained in detail, they are also illustrated by true