I. Getting Started

1. Setting Up Your Child's Early Intervention Program

2. Taking Care of Yourself and Your Family

3. How Your Early Efforts Can Help Your Child Engage with Others and Boost Your Child's Learning

II. Everyday Strategies to Help Your Child Engage, Communicate, and Learn

4. Step into the Spotlight: Capturing Your Child's Attention

5. Find the Smile!: Having Fun with Sensory Social Routines

6. It Takes Two to Tango: Building Back-and-Forth Interactions

7. Talking Bodies: The Importance of Nonverbal Communication

8. “Do What I Do!”: Helping Your Child Learn by Imitating

9. Let's Get Technical: How Children Learn

10. The Joint Attention Triangle: Sharing Interests with Others

11. It's Playtime!

12. Let's Pretend!

13. Moving into Speech

14. Putting It All Together

Appendix. Toys and Books for Your Young Child with Autism

Resources