More test subjects, I mean parents, needed

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Hello

As you may or may not be aware, I have been working on writing a book. I just finished it this morning, and I am reviewing it now. I don't like the way the chapter on socializing ends, so I am rewriting that, but I should be done some time today.

Anyways, I am looking for some feedback on the book. It is currently 163 pages long, and it answers most of the questions that a parent has about autism. Things like:
What is autism
What causes it
What to do about it
How does an autistic person think
What causes the problems
How to deal with the problems
What to do about socializing
what to do about stimming
what treatment programs and medications are there and which ones should you get
should you tell your child that they are autistic
what long term plans should you have
and so forth.

It is basically autism 101. It doesn't cover everything that every parent needs to know, but it tries to handle the most common questions that parents ask themselves.

What I am looking for is some parents who are willing to read through the book, and offer their opinion. Now to be clear, I am not asking for anybody to go through and edit the book. You don't need to look for grammatical mistakes, or misspellings. And you don't need to critique the paragraph structure. I am not asking you to grade an essay. What I am looking for is just your basic thoughts on the book, and what if anything you would like changed.

For example, good feedback might be something like:
On page 28 you talked about the difficulty with speech, could you please offer more analogies and explain this better. I still don't understand what you mean.

Or perhaps something like:
I think you need to add more information in to your book about how to make effective routines, and schedules. I found the information to be lacking.

Or maybe even:
Your choice of words on page 10 seems too aggressive, and you might be scaring people off. Consider revising that section.

Basically, I would just like you to read through the book, and maybe take a few minutes after each chapter to write down anything that you feel needs to be changed, explained better, or modified in some way.

This should only take you a few hours at most, so if you sit down and find yourself spending 2 hours per chapter writing full length essays about each page then you are going a bit too far. I am just looking for general feedback. That way I can take the feedback, and change the book before I put it up for download on the internet.

I am hopefully going to finish the book and have it available for download by the end of this month (perhaps later), so if you want to help me out, then please do get back to me in less then 2 weeks.

Anyways, if you are interested in helping me out and getting an advanced copy of the book, then please do PM me your email address (or leave it in a response) and I will email the book to you once I finish it tonight. If you don't want to see the rough draft, then just wait and I should have it finished and ready for open release by the end of the month.

I owe you a zillion apologies. I really am interested in and excited about this project of yours, and want to be a part of it, just ... I can't even keep my head above water. If you want to send me the latest draft right before my vacation in a few weeks, I bet it would make good ignoring the in-laws reading

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I would be willing to do this. PM me and let me know how you would send the book, etc.

I've always enjoyed your posts on the forum. I think your book would be EXCELLENT, and I have a mother of a newly diagnosed child who could really use your book.

I'm with DW right now. I'm very interested and really want to help, but I'm overwhelmed with stuff my kids are dealing with right now. You could send me a copy, and I might proofread it for you (I'm a really good proofreader, believe it or not!), but I can't promise anything.

Well, I was planning just to email it. It is only about 500 KB in length, so hotmail works just fine.

If you want a copy of the book then just PM me your email. Just click here:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... st&u=20008

If your not comfortable giving me your email then I could always post it online, but I was hoping to avoid wide spread distribution until after I have edited and finalized it.

But yeah, I am still working on it, but it is almost there.

I've been swamped trying to get my blog sorted out as well as both girls settled into school but with holidays starting in a week I will have time

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I'd love to, but we are getting ready to move. Will you be posting for help again in late July?

I should hopefully have the book finished and available for download by the end of June. So, you can certainly read it in July, but I don't think I will be asking for much feedback then.

I have read most of it. How do we respond with our comments? Via PM or email to you?

Tracker, I also wanted to post publicly that your chapter on "What Causes The Problems" was amazingly helpful/insightful to me!! !!

Either one will work. So, use which ever you like better.

I have some time now (before I was working on new releases of Picto Selector) so can you send me the latest version? You added quite a few pages after i got mine version a few weeks ago...

I can't wait for this to be ready Tracker!

Well, if you dont want to wait I can email you what I have now. Your not required to wait if you don't want to

Although perhaps I announced it a bit premature. I am still working on finishing the socializing chapter the way I want... I keep trying to change it and all Ive done is made it more complicated. I've decided to not worry about it for a little bit and take a break. Ill go back and finish the chapter properly later.

Great! I will PM you my email. Thanks.

I just joined the forums today, but if it is still available, I would love to give feedback on your book.

~Nichole