The Build Your Family workbook discusses topics from the mental health of the whole family to teaching strategies to teaching skills. Each chapter tells our story, gives tips to help you, and exercises to lead you on your way.

Highlights from Build Your Family workbook:

• After Diagnosis
• Grief
• Depression and Anxiety
• Build an Inclusive Team
• Create Your Family
• Your Family’s Values
• Family Fun
• Making Changes
• Your Child
• Preparing You Child for Adulthood
• Strategies for Teaching Life Skills
• What Skills to Build?
• Reframing: Benefits of Current Skills
• Tackling Problematic Behaviors           
• Medical Issues
• Getting Your Child Medically Diagnosed           
• Pain in Children with ASD
• When It Is Not Working
• Tracking Charts

DVD

The Build Your Family DVD shows exercises along with instructions you can use with your child.

Highlights from the Build Your Family DVD:

• Sound Awareness Exercises - Create an environment, so your child can know the sounds exist, have time process them, and identify the sounds.
• Sensory System Exercises - An overtaxed sensory system can result in your child not able to get close to you or others. In this exercise we show how regulating the sensory system can help develop skills and improve your child's ability to connect with others.
• Goal Setting Exercises - What do you want your family to look like and how do get there?  We help with a step-by-step plan to achieving goals.
• Play with Your Child Exercises - Expand your child's play and teach them how to have meaningful play and even imagination through our  exercises and tips.
• Teach Gross Motor and Motor Planning Skills Exercises - Gross motor and motor planning can be difficult for children with autism, use our exercises and tips to help your child swim, bounce on one foot, throw a ball, and ride a bike. 
• Social Skill Exercises - Step-by-step helps to build social skills and expands your child's connection with their peers.