Your child discovers an extraordinary power - and an even bigger heart.
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Help topic - a busy brain
Personalized books for a child with a busy brain
For the child who is three questions ahead, and the parent who is tired of hearing what they struggle with.
Some children arrive at the world at speed. They are three steps into the next idea before the last one has landed, they lose the thread and the shoe and the reading folder, and they can tell you everything about volcanoes and nothing about what was said thirty seconds ago. Somewhere along the way that stops being described as who they are and starts being described as a problem - usually in a report, usually by someone who has never seen them at their best. A book cannot change any of that, and this one does not try to. What it can do is put that child on the page as the hero rather than the difficulty: the one whose fast brain is the reason the day is saved, whose noticing everything turns out to be the useful thing, whose name is on the cover. For a child who mostly hears about what is hard, being the person the story is about is not a small thing.
What to look for
Their brain is the asset, not the plot problem
The story never has them learn to focus. The speed, or the noticing, is what makes them good at the thing that matters in chapter nine.
One real situation, not a lesson about attention
The morning everything went missing. The swimming lesson. Specific beats general, every time.
No diagnosis needed, and no waiting list
Over 204,000 people in England are waiting for an autism assessment, 89% of them longer than three months. Nothing here is gated behind a letter.
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Common questions
Are there good books for kids with ADHD?
There are, and the useful ones have two things in common: they are about a specific situation rather than about attention in general, and the child is the one who gets through it rather than the one being corrected. That is how these are written. What no book can do - ours included - is change how a child's attention works, and you should be wary of anything that says otherwise.
Will this help my child concentrate?
No, and we would rather say so. This is a storybook, not a therapy or an intervention. What it does is put your child at the centre of a story where the way their mind works is the reason things turn out well - a different and smaller thing than treatment, and worth having on its own terms.
My child has not been diagnosed with anything. Is this still for us?
Yes, and it is the most common version. Most parents reading this are somewhere between "something is going on" and an appointment months away. Nothing here needs a label; it is written for the child in front of you.
Is this a social story?
No. Social Stories are Carol Gray's, and the term is reserved for stories meeting her ten criteria. These are personalized storybooks - social narratives in the general sense - written for one child and one situation.
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