Your Child's Therapist Is Billing $2,200 a Session. This $34 Book Covers What They're Not Teaching You Between Appointments.
Lauren Adams, M.Ed.
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5 min read
$2,200. That's what one ABA session costs.
Three hours. A therapist works with your child in a clinic. Goals get checked off a list. Progress notes get written up.
Then your child comes home.
And you're the one dealing with the meltdown at dinner. The screaming in the car because you took the wrong turn. The 45 minutes of kicking and crying because the shirt feels wrong and you can't figure out why.
Nobody told you what to do in that moment.
The therapist didn't cover it. The doctor gave you a pamphlet. The school gave you a phone number. And the next appointment? That's a week away. Or a month. Or you're still on the waitlist.
So you're on your own. Googling at midnight. Reading Reddit. Trying to find someone, anyone, who gets it.
That's the gap. Not the therapy itself. The 165 other hours in the week when no one is helping you.
You Already Know What Autism Is. You Need to Know What to Do.
You don't need another article explaining what a meltdown is. You just lived through one.
You don't need someone telling you what NOT to do. You need someone telling you what to do instead.
That's the problem with most books, courses, and programs in this space. They explain autism. They talk about empathy. They give you the big picture.
But they never give you a script for 6:47am when the bus is coming and your child won't put on shoes.
So Someone Finally Wrote It Down
Autism Parenting 101 is a how-to book. Not a textbook. Not a memoir. A how-to.
Decision trees. Scripts. Checklists. Written in plain language. Organized by the stuff you're actually dealing with.
Lauren Adams wrote it after years of working hands-on with families of kids with autism. Not in a lab. In living rooms, at kitchen tables, in the car after school pickup. She saw the same thing over and over: parents were told what autism is, but never what to do about it at home.
12 chapters. 99 pages. Every stage covered.
From the week after diagnosis through the teen years. Plus 4 appendices, a glossary, and blank templates you can use right away.
Also covers: sibling support, teen years, non-verbal communication tools, money and legal stuff, crisis help, and blank templates in the back you can print out and use.
What Parents Are Saying
None of them are saying it cured their child. They're saying it gave them something they didn't have before: a plan. That's the change. Not a different kid. A different way to show up for the one you've got.
This Book Is For You If:
You already know what autism is. You live it every day.
You just want someone to tell you what to do when the school calls. What to say in the IEP meeting. How to get through a morning without losing it. How to stop guessing and start feeling like you actually know what you're doing.
You want a plan. Not a pamphlet. Not another waitlist. A plan.
This Book Is NOT For You If:
You want a thick textbook about the science of autism. Or a story about someone else's journey. This isn't that.
This is 99 pages of what to do. Decision trees. Scripts. Checklists. Short chapters. Plain words.
99 pages. Because you don't have time for 400.
