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Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female
autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and
supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow
autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the
experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide
extensive recommendations. Autistic advocates including Liane
Holliday Willey, Anita Lesko, Jeanette Purkis, Artemisia and
Samantha Craft offer their personal guidance on significant issues
that particularly affect women, as well as those that are more
general to autism. Contributors cover issues including growing up,
identity, diversity, parenting, independence and self-care amongst
many others. With great contributions from exceptional women, this
is a truly well-rounded collection of knowledge and sage advice for
any woman with autism.
Happily married to her husband with Asperger Syndrome for 25 years,
Ashley Stanford is an expert on how Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
can affect a relationship and her bestselling book has helped
thousands of couples. Brought fully up to date, this second edition
clarifies the new DSM-5 diagnostic criteria and explains how,
without a solid awareness of the condition, ASD behaviors can
easily be misinterpreted. Stanford's book provides a wealth of
strategies for living with the more uncompromising aspects of ASD,
pointing out that ASD also brings enormous strengths to a
relationship. It shows how understanding the intentions,
motivations and reasoning behind ASD behaviors can lead to better
communication, relief of tension, and ultimately to a happier, more
mutually fulfilling relationship.
As a parent, a teacher and an Aspie herself, Jennifer O'Toole
provides the definitive insider's view of Asperger syndrome. She
shows how to help children on the spectrum by understanding how
they think and by exploiting their special interests to promote
learning. Her strategies work because she thinks like the children
that she teaches. This exciting book is full of effective and fun
ways of engaging with children with Asperger syndrome. Jennifer
explains how theory of mind difficulties create the need for
concrete forms of communication, and provides original methods to
inspire imagination through sensorial experiences. In particular
she reveals the untapped power of special interests, showing how to
harness these interests to encourage academic, social and emotional
growth. Affirming that different doesn't mean defective, this book
offers the insight and guidance that parents, educators, and other
professionals need to connect with the Asperkids in their life and
get them excited about learning.
Compelling and witty, Liane Holliday Willey's account of growing to
adulthood as an undiagnosed 'Aspie' has been read by thousands of
people on and off the autism spectrum since it was first published
in 1999. Bringing her story up to date, including her diagnosis as
an adult, and reflecting on the changes in attitude over 15 years,
this expanded edition will continue to entertain (and inform) all
those who would like to know a little more about how it feels to
spend your life `pretending to be normal'.
Adolescence has been known as the "second crisis" for some
families. Successful navigation of this emotionally complex time
can be difficult, and for girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders
(ASDs) the teenage years can be particularly challenging, as there
are issues specific to them that have been very sparsely addressed
in current resources, such as menstruation, puberty, safety and the
complications of girls' friendships due to fears of loneliness and
the lack of group inclusion. This book is the first resource for
families to provide the key information they need to know to help
their daughters
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and the whole family
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through adolescence. It puts topics into the context of typical
development and addresses core issues of ASDs such as cognition,
communication, behavior, sensory sensitivities and social
difficulties, and provides information, practical teaching,
intervention strategies and resources regarding topics specific to
being a teenage girl with ASD.
Liane Holliday Willey and one of her daughters both have Asperger
Syndrome. In Asperger Syndrome in the Family she looks, with
honesty, wisdom and humor, at the implications this has for her
family, both the Aspie and the non-Aspie members. Through personal
vignettes, frank discussions and practical suggestions for dealing
with everything from major to minor Aspie challenges, Liane, her
husband and their three daughters bravely open their home to their
readers, inviting them to look behind the curtains at their version
of Aspie life. Not only does the book underscore the importance of
mutual support and respect in an Aspie family - in fact in any
family - it offers practical help for families in similar
situations. This is a rich and positive book that will speak to all
those whose lives have been affected by Asperger Syndrome.
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