Publisher's Synopsis
For over twenty years, Professor Stephan Eliez has been seeing parents of children with serious developmental disorders - autism, schizophrenia, psychosis, intellectual disability, rare diseases. He listens to them, informs them, advises them and guides them. It is the fruit of all the experience he has accumulated that he shares with us here. This book is intended as a guide for all those who live alongside children who are not quite like the others. To the concerns directly expressed by parents in consultation, it provides the answers of one of the greatest European specialists in the field of disability. How to get the right diagnosis? How to organize care? How to limit the impact of disability on life as a couple, family dynamics, relationships with siblings? How to best support the major stages of your child's development? Parents will find here the information and advice they need to raise their child. They will also discover, to help them in their daily lives, numerous interviews with other parents facing the same difficulties. Finally, they will learn about ways to better orient themselves and escape the solitude that families of children with disabilities so often experience. Stephan Eliez is a child psychiatrist, specializing in disability. First a professor at Stanford University (California), he is now a professor of child psychiatry at the University of Geneva. He has a long clinical practice with disabled children and their families. He also leads a research group in clinical neuroscience on autism, early psychosis and rare neurodevelopmental diseases.
