Introduce your child to their PDA diagnosis in a gentle and positive way with the help of this adorable panda
Dr Glòria Durà-Vila is a multi-award winning consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist, author, and lecturer. She works in private practice (psychiatryinlondon.co.uk) and in the Surrey and Borders NHS Trust where she is Medical Lead for ASD. Her passion for communicating the Autism diagnosis to children in a personalised way, one that captures their strengths and difficulties within the Autism Spectrum, is central to her writing and her academic and clinical work.
This book is a wonderful introduction to PDA for children and young
people. Full of positivity about pandas' strengths and honesty
about the challenges, it is a brilliant resource for opening up
conversations with a PDAer about what PDA means to them. I look
forward to sharing it with my students.
*Clare Truman, teacher and education consultant supporting autistic
students, author of The Teacher's Introduction to Pathological
Demand Avoidance*
Dr Durà-Vilà's wealth of PDA experience and expertise shines
through in this beautiful, affirming book. Rebecca's charming
illustrations bring the PDA panda ambassador to life as it guides
young PDAers in understanding their profile of autism and how they
can best be supported. With colourful heartfelt drawings from PDA
children there's so much to like about this book, I would highly
recommend [it] to any family starting their PDA journey.
*Helen Evans, CEO, PDA Society*
This beautifully illustrated, friendly book invites the PDA child
to join their tribe using the masterful tool of a de-personalised
panda (who co-authors the book and openly involves the child on
every page). The information is presented creatively and
communicated in a non-demanding style; perfect for a PDA reader. Dr
Glòria has managed to create a resource that will inspire many
children to be their authentic self and is highly recommended as a
great starting point to introduce PDA to a young audience.
*Danielle Jata-Hall is a parent of a PDA daughter; she is also a
blogger, advocate, children's author and an online campaigner.*
The Panda on PDA is a sensitively written and beautifully
illustrated book which explains PDA in a way that younger children
will easily understand. There is a lovely balance between the
challenges these young people face and the positive characteristics
many of them display when well-understood and supported. I would
highly recommend this book for any parent living with a PDA child,
or professional supporting one.
*Dr Judy Eaton, consultant clinical psychologist and author of A
Guide to Mental Health Issues in Girls and Young Women on the
Autism Spectrum.*
A delightful book with beautiful illustrations that will appeal to
younger readers. It presents a charming, positive character who
explains PDA and supports adults in conversations with young
children to offer them a better understanding of their own unique
profile.
*Ruth Fidler, author and education consultant supporting complex
presentations of autism and wellbeing.*
This beautifully illustrated book will help children with PDA to
understand their amazing, unique brains and their feelings and
emotions in a wonderfully positive and relatable way. PDA is
described in a way that is helpful, clear and child friendly. This
book will be beneficial to children with PDA, their siblings,
peers, parents and wider family. I love the fact that children can
personalise their books too!
*Laura Kerbey, autism and education consultant*
This beautifully illustrated book introduces PDA (some strengths,
difficulties and things that might help), through the eyes and
lives of Pandas (bears with a particular style of autism). It is
aimed to be read with younger children and has lots of interactive
elements and opportunities to personalise the content. It's an
excellent resource to introduce children in a positive way to some
complex ideas and will be as helpful to the adult reading it with
them as it will to the child him or herself!
*Phil Christie, Consultant Child Psychologist and author of
Collaborative Approaches to Learning for Pupils with PDA*
First of all: explaining autism and PDA through the prism of bears
is nothing short of genius. This alone draws one in, and to then be
guided through the pages by such informed and compassionate writing
makes this book a very riveting read indeed.
*Harry Thompson, autistic PDA adult and author of The PDA
Paradox*
A colourful and charming book that is full of self-awareness
messages for children of all ages. Creatively written so that the
child can see their own traits and differences through the medium
of Pandas!!! Useful for a child starting on their journey of
self-discovery that does encourages the child to look within
themselves. I'm sure that they will keep returning to it over time
to just check in and support themselves by using the positive
language and scenarios to see that the differences that society may
see in them are perfectly normal.
*Nicola Reekie, owner of The PDA Space*
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