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