Autism
Books and Resources dealing specifically with Autism including Autism Spectrum Disorder or ASD (formerly known as Aspergers)
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Autism-Asperger’s & Sexuality: Puberty and Beyond
Written by two adults diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, this ground-breaking, personal look at the sexual challenges of those diagnosed with autism or Asperger’s includes advice on dating, sex, birth control, disease prevention, abuse, and personal grooming and more.
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Autism: Exploring the Benefits of a Gluten-and Casein-Free Diet – A practical guide for families and professionals
Autism: Exploring the Benefits of a Gluten- and Casein-Free Diet offers parents, teachers, and other education or health professionals an easy-to-read alternative to sifting through the combined science. Written by leading experts in autism research, food, nutrition and dietetics, the book cuts through the jargon to offer readers a no-nonsense, accessible and authoritative overview of how diet might affect some characteristics of autism, and provides a range of useful recipes and handy hints for making mealtimes fun for children with autism and related conditions who are embarking on such a dietary change.
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Autism…What Does It Mean To Me?
In this updated edition, new pages include additional pages directed towards older readers. For example, teens exploring how their identity relates to their diagnosis may be interested in the pages titled: The Wording for Me and Autism: “Identity First” and “Person First” (p. 20, 21). Pages 28-29 offer additional resources to the parent or professional regarding this language. Pages regarding the importance and meaning of stimming are new, along with pages regarding Self-Injurious Behavior, tics, emotional pain, empathy, and many, many more. In the section regarding Friends, Catherine includes what she’s learned from adults and teens regarding the importance of internet friendships as a vital and sustaining force in many otherwise isolated lives. She’s also added new information regarding the dangers that may be associated with meeting people online, and practical tips regarding protecting one’s personal safety.
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Autism…What Does It Mean To Me? Structured Teaching Ideas for Home and School
This workbook gives children and teens with high-functioning autism and Asperger’s Syndrome an opportunity to understand themselves and their diagnosis.
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Autisme et A.B.A, une pédagogie du progrès
Sorti aux USA en 1999, pour la première fois en France une traduction d’un livre sur la stratégie béhavioriste.
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Autisme et zoothérapie: Communication et apprentissages par la médiation animale
Trouble du développement marqué par les difficultés de relation à l’environnement et de communication, l’autisme nécessite une prise en compte de la personne dans son entièreté. De nombreuses méthodes thérapeutiques ont été pensées pour améliorer les capacités interactionnelles des personnes atteintes. La médiation animale offre une approche originale et pertinente, en cela que l’animal tient lieu d’intermédiaire de communication entre le patient, souvent un enfant, et le zoothérapeute.
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Autisme, comprendre et agir, 3E ÉD
Définir : Les premières descriptions de l’autisme, Le diagnostic de l’autisme et des autres troubles du développement, Les signes cliniques de l’autisme, Aspects biomédicaux de l’autisme; …
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Autistic Logistics – A Parent’s Guide to Tackling Bedtime, Toilet Training, Tantrums, Hitting, and Other Everyday Challenges – 2nd. Edition
This updated edition is based on Kate Wilde’s decades of experience and the latest autism research. Tackling a wide range of common parenting milestones, the book offers tried-and-tested techniques to help you transform the challenges of home life and create harmony.
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Born on a Blue Day
Born on a Blue Day is a journey into one of the most fascinating minds alive today — guided by its owner himself. Daniel Tammet sees numbers as shapes, colors, and textures, and he can perform extraordinary calculations in his head.
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Bright Not Broken: Gifted Kids, ADHD, and Autism
The future of our society depends on our gifted children—the population in which we’ll find our next Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, or Virginia Woolf. Yet the gifts and talents of some of our most brilliant kids may never be recognized because these children fall into a group known as twice exceptional, or “2e.”
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Can I tell you about Autism? A guide for friends, family and professionals
Meet Tom – a young boy with autism. Tom invites readers to learn about autism from his perspective, helping them to understand what it is and explaining the challenges he faces with issues such as social communication, sensory overload and changes in his routine. Tom tells readers about all the ways he can be helped and supported by those around him.
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Can I tell you about Pathological Demand Avoidance syndrome? A guide for friends, family and professionals
In this illustrated guide Issy invites readers to learn about PDA, a part of the autism spectrum, from her perspective, helping them to understand how it causes her to find simple, everyday demands very stressful. Issy tells readers (aged 7 upwards) about all the ways she can be helped and supported by those around her.
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Catatonia, Shutdown and Breakdown in Autism – A Psycho-Ecological Approach
Based on Dr Amitta Shah’s 35 years of clinical and research experience, this practical book shows how to recognise and diagnose catatonia in people with autism. Written for professionals, friends and family, it gives a brand new psychological approach to support individuals with autism who have mild to moderate catatonia.
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Colour Coding for Learners with Autism: A Resource Book for Creating Meaning through Colour at Home and School
Children on the autism spectrum are often highly visual learners, making colour a powerful and motivating learning tool.
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Coming Home to Autism – A Room-by-Room Approach to Supporting Your Child at Home after ASD Diagnosis
This friendly book offers a blueprint for family life with autism by using rooms in the home to represent key developmental areas. There are ideas and routines to try at home, including advice on toilet training, diet and nutrition, sensory play,and much more, and you can dip in and out of chapters as you need information.
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Comment aider l’enfant autiste 2e ed.
Les enfants autistes ont besoin, pour être aidés au mieux, qu’on les approche dans leur totalité. Dépasser les querelles d’école, faire le point sur l’état des connaissances – qu’elles soient génétiques, neurologiques, psychodynamiques…
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Comment pense une personne autiste
Par ce livre, Peter VERMEULEN nous rapproche du cheminement de la pensée des personnes autistes.
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Comprendre et accompagner la personne autiste
Éducatrice et psychologue, l’auteur est elle-même autiste. C’est pourquoi ce livre est tout à fait exceptionnel. Il apporte à la fois une contribution de grande valeur à la compréhension des désordres du spectre autistique et offre des clés pour une intervention efficace auprès des personnes autistes et Asperger.
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Comprendre les personnes autistes de haut niveau
Peter Vermeulen décrit et illustre dans ce livre la manière d’être des personnes autistes de haut niveau dans les domaines de la communication, de la fréquentation d’autrui et du quotidien, dans un style concret, clair, souvent avec une pointe d’humour
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Connecting and Communicating with Your Autistic Child – A Toolkit of Activities to Encourage Emotional Regulation and Social Development
This book teaches drama and immersive theatre-based activities for parents and professionals working with children and young people on the autism spectrum. The exercises follow the author’s simple, person-centred ‘3C pathway’ of connecting, calming and communicating, and enable parents to gain an understanding of the challenges an autistic child may face by ‘walking in their shoes’, while empowering children to become more self-aware and express themselves in healthy ways.
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