Autism and Intellectual Disability
The parents' guide to caring, planning and accessing support
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This essential guide answers the questions parent carers have before and after a child's autism diagnosis and looks at how you can most effectively seek help from support services, family and your wider community.
Written by a highly experienced author team with both professional and lived experience, this book will help you navigate social care, healthcare and education. It provides reliable advice on how to advocate for your family, and how to challenge services when necessary to get the best possible care for your child. There are practical strategies for those times when third party support is not available.
With advice and summary points to dip in and out of as needed, you will learn how to work together as a family unit, creating a robust support system for your autistic child into their young adulthood.
Written by a highly experienced author team with both professional and lived experience, this book will help you navigate social care, healthcare and education. It provides reliable advice on how to advocate for your family, and how to challenge services when necessary to get the best possible care for your child. There are practical strategies for those times when third party support is not available.
With advice and summary points to dip in and out of as needed, you will learn how to work together as a family unit, creating a robust support system for your autistic child into their young adulthood.
- Published: Nov 19 2026
- Pages: 192
- ISBN: 9781805017783
Press Reviews
Tom and Paula McGowan OBE
founders of Oliver's Campaign and the Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and AutismA warm, relatable and deeply humanising book, rooted in acceptance and real-life experience. Combining practical advice with genuine understanding, it empowers families to navigate autism and learning disability with confidence and hope. Essential reading not only for parent carers, but for professionals seeking to better understand and support autistic and learning disabled children and their families.
Professor Sara Ryan, Professor of Social Care, Manchester Metropolitan University, author of Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance
A beautifully written and from the heart exploration of parenting autistic children and/or children with intellectual disabilities. The book offers thoughtful and practical ideas around making family life workable and fun while not shying away from potential challenges. The authors bring a wealth of personal and professional experience and draw on interviews with other families to create an important, rich and invaluable resource.
Baroness Sheila Hollins, Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry of Learning Disability at St George's, University of London
The authors have drawn on their personal experiences and learnings as parents and also as professionals to give honest and empowering guidance for families.
Dr Catherine Sholl, Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Parent-Carer
An essential read for parents and professionals. Packed with practical tips and emotional insights. Written from a deeply personal perspective with the advantage of the authors being parents and experienced professionals in this field. A much needed resource and an enjoyable and thought provoking read.