Читать книгу Me and My PDA - Tamar Levi - Страница 9

This is a letter for your parents. You can share it with them if you want to.

Dear Parents,

We witness again and again, with awe and admiration, how you have bravely undergone the journey to understand your child’s difficulties and to get the best support for them. Some of you found that descriptions of PDA ‘made perfect sense’, that it described difficulties you were having while trying your best to parent your child. Many talked about a ‘penny dropping’ moment when reading about PDA. We listened and heard that your paths have been plagued with misunderstanding, confusion, controversy, ignorance, disbelief and even judgement coming from professionals. We were even told that some of you were refused help by services as PDA is not in the diagnostic classifications. Whatever name we might give to a child’s difficulties, it must never reduce their complexity into a meaningless label; a diagnosis should never put children into a box. On the contrary, it should help people understand their strengths and difficulties. This book aims to support a ‘needs-led’ individualised programme full of strategies and approaches that is shared by you, your family and friends, and all the professionals involved in the care of your child.