Parents’ and Professionals’ Simple Guide to PDA

Laura Kerbey is the co-founder of PAST (Positive Assessments Support and Training) Kite Therapeutic Learning. She has been working with autistic children and young people for over 20 years and provides training to ensure that the needs of autistic and PDA learners are fully met.Eliza Fricker is an illustrator and author whose deceptively simple illustrations give way to endearingly perceptive and detailed observations, which are often irreverently humorous and highly emotional. Eliza is the Sunday Times' bestselling author of The Family Experience of PDA and Can't Not Won't.Together, Laura and Eliza published The Educator's Experience of Pathological Demand Avoidance with JKP (April 2023).

Readable, down to earth and filled with real-life examples, Laura and Eliza have produced a simple guide to something which often doesn't feel simple at all. If you have a child for whom the usual rules don't seem to apply, then this book explains their apparently inexplicable behaviour. You'll end it with a better understanding of your amazing child, and a new awareness of how they may experience the world. And you'll recognise your family in the on-the-nose illustrations!