What Your Child Is Telling You: A BCBA's Complete Guide for Parents of Children with Behavioral Needs (What the Behavior Tells You)

Finally, a behavior book written for parents, not clinicians.If you have ever left an IEP meeting not fully understanding what you just signed, tried a behavior strategy that made things worse, or watched your child struggle while every professional gave you a different answer, this book was written for you.What Your Child Is Telling You translates the science of behavior into plain, honest language that every parent can use. Written by James Chege, a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA) with years of experience in schools, clinics, and homes, this is the guide parents are never handed but always needed.What you will learn:Why your child does what they do, including the four functions of behavior explained with real home examples. Your child's legal rights and how to read an IEP, request a functional behavior assessment, and advocate effectively in school meetings. Strategies that actually work at home, proactive tools that prevent behavior before it starts. Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA), the most overlooked behavioral profile, and why standard strategies backfire. How to navigate crisis, including the escalation cycle, what to do at each stage, and how to rebuild after. How to work with your child's school team as a partner, advocate, and informed member of the IEP process. How to take care of the whole family, covering siblings, caregiver burnout, and co-parent consistency.This book also includes a Frequently Asked Questions section covering what parents actually ask, a complete glossary of school and behavioral terms, a list of questions to bring to your next IEP meeting, a home behavior tracking log you can use immediately, and a full resources section for every aspect of behavioral support.This is not a book that tells you your child is broken. It is a book that explains what your child is communicating and gives you the tools to respond in a way that actually helps.Whether your child has autism, ADHD, a PDA profile, an IEP, a behavior plan, or simply behavioral needs that no one has been able to fully explain, this book will change how you see every difficult moment and every school meeting going forward.Every behavior is communication. This book will help you hear what your child is saying. Read more