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Autism adulthood : strategies and insights for a fulfilling life
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Autism adulthood : strategies and insights for a fulfilling life
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Physical Description:
xxix, 280 pages ; 24 cm.
Summary:
"Autism Adulthood features thirty interviews with autistic adults, their parents, caregivers, researchers, and professionals. Each vignette reveals firsthand a familys challenge, their circumstances, their thought processes, and their unique solutions, and plans of action. Sharing the wisdom that emerges from parents and self-advocates experiences, Senator adds her own observations and conclusions based on her long-term experience with autism. Told in Senator's trademark warm, honest, and approachable style, Autism Adulthood paints a vivid and thought-provoking picture of many people grappling with grown-up, real-life autism. Senator's is the only book of its kind, as real families share their stories and their creative solutions.".
Contents:
Part I: Constructing Autism Adulthood -- Introduction: Beginning at the End -- Chapter One: Post Twenty-Two Planning: Facing Transition -- Chapter Two: If You Want Something Better, Create It!: Employment and Job Training -- Chapter Three: Home Isn't Built in a Day -- Chapter Four: Staffing and Turning to Others -- Part II: Deconstructing Autism Adulthood -- Chapter Five: Helping Your Guy Find His Way: Acquiring Life Skills -- Chapter Six: The Struggles of Apparently High-Functioning -- Chapter Seven: Autistic Adults with Communication or Apparent Cognitive Challenges -- Chapter Eight: Am I My Brother's Keeper? -- Chapter Nine: Autism Adulthood Health and Safety Issues -- Chapter Ten: I Can Never Die, and Other Myths.
Publication Info:
New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]

©2016
Subject:
Autism
Autism spectrum disorders
Autistic disorder
ASCs (Autism spectrum conditions)
ASDs (Autism spectrum disorders)
Autism spectrum conditions
Autistic spectrum disorders
Child development disorders, Pervasive
PDDs (Pervasive developmental disorders)
Pervasive child development disorders
Pervasive development disorders
Pervasive developmental disorders
SAILS ISBN:
9781510704237