Elaine Halligan''s My Child''s Different: The lessons learned from one family''s struggle to unlock their son''s potential explores the enabling role that parents can play in bringing the best out of children who are seen as ''different'' or ''difficult''. Foreword by Dr Laura Markham. Society favours children, and adults, who conform. The notion that our children may be shunned for being ''different'' breaks our hearts, but there is plenty we can do to help such children develop into thriving, resilient adults. In My Child''s Different Elaine shares the true story of her son Sam, who by the age of seven had been excluded from three schools and was later labelled with a whole host of conditions ranging from autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) to pathological demand avoidance (PDA), before finally being diagnosed with dyslexia.He had become ''the Alphabet Kid''. His family never gave up on him, however Drawing lessons from Sam''s transformational journey from difficult child to budding ent