An author and educators pioneering approach to helping autistic students find their voices through poetrya powerful and uplifting story that shows us how to better communicate with people on the spectrum and explores how we use language to express our seemingly limitless interior lives.
With The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Asperger's Syndrome at your side, you'll take the first steps toward understanding this pervasive development disorder and how it may impact your child.
This book is a collection of stories about the real secret life of several autism mothers, detailing their stress, their joys, their tears, their laughter, and their disappointments.
A Firsthand Account from a CDC Insider on the Link between Vaccines and AutismVaccine Whistleblower is a gripping account of four legally recorded phone conversations between Dr.
A ';beautiful and astonishing' (Walter Isaacson, # 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Code Breaker) narrative that examines the many ways to be fully human, told by the first young adult with autism to attend Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.
'Grandin has helped us understand autism not just as a phenomenon, but as a different and coherent mode of existence that otherwise confounds us' The New York Times'A powerful and provocative testament to the diverse coalition of minds we'll need to face the mounting challenges of the twenty-first century' Steve Silberman, bestselling author of NeuroTribes Do you think in pictures, patterns or words?
'[AN] IMPORTANT BOOK' TEMPLE GRANDINOver the course of her career, psychologist Joanne Ruthsatz has assembled the largest-ever research sample of child prodigies.
The National Autistic Society estimates that Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) now affects 500,000 families in the UK alone, while one in 86 children have an ASD-related special educational need.
From the bestselling author of Wintering, Katherine May, The Electricity of Every Living Thing is a life-affirming and poignant exploration of nature, and how reconnecting to wild landscapes can create peace in our unquiet minds.
How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autismAutism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation.
As seen on the BBC documentary, Inside Our Autistic Minds, with Chris Packham"e;If every parent receiving a diagnosis of autism for their child could read this book, it would avoid so much misunderstanding and unhappiness.
Imagine a world where your autistic child is included, engaged and cherished for how they are; a world which changes for autistic children, rather than changing the child.
Der vorliegende Band gibt einen umfassenden und mit vielen Fallbeispielen versehenen Überblick zu den besonderen diagnostischen und therapeutischen Herausforderungen bei Verhaltensauffälligkeiten und psychischen Störungen bei Kindern und Erwachsenen mit intellektueller Beeinträchtigung.
Coauthored by the premier expert on autism in the United States and an experienced academic and practicing pediatrician, this volume provides concise and practical information based on the most up-to-date research and clinical experience for primary care givers around the world.
