Giving Your Child a Voice, One Signal at a Time
For parents of non-speaking and minimally speaking autistic children
The same transition falls apart every day. It isn't defiance. It's a signal.
School dropoff. Leaving the playground. The morning routine that unravels in the same place, in the same way, every single time.
The Transition Signal Guide shows you what that transition is actually demanding of your child's nervous system, and gives you the first tool to reduce it.
What's in it
- Why transitions break down, explained as what's happening in your child's nervous system rather than as parenting advice
- The five demands every transition places on your child's nervous system at the same time
- The Signal Shift™*, and the one question that brings it about and changes what you try next
- Tool 1, in full, ready to use on your hardest transition this week
* Signal Shift™ is the internal transformation a caregiver experiences when they move from seeing behavior as a problem to seeing every behavior as a signal — a message waiting to be decoded.
Transitions are not a behavior problem. They are a nervous system event.
If you've been told your child needs to learn to be more flexible, this guide will give you a different framework, and something to do with it tomorrow morning.
Dr. Catherine C. Acotto, PhD, CCC-SLP. Twenty-six years, full time, with non-speaking and minimally speaking autistic children, and more than 50,000 clinical hours. She still works in a California county special education program, so she isn't teaching from theory. She's teaching from last Tuesday.
