Women and Girls
Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder, or Asperger’s, have been an under-served population, and have particular issues and challenges specific to their gender. This section deals with everything from managing puberty and periods to how to handle basic teenage issues. Great for parents, teachers, and kids alike.
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101 Tips for the Parents of Girls with Autism
In 101 Tips for the Parents of Girls with Autism you will learn how to deal with troubling issues such as periods, birth control, and the risks of sexual abuse.
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A Guide to Mental Health Issues in Girls and Young Women on the Autism Spectrum
Girls with autism require tailored support for dealing with mental health issues. This book offers interventions specifically for supporting girls with their mental health, by looking at looking at how girls are assessed and diagnosed for autism, and explaining which mental health conditions girls with autism most frequently experience.
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A Smart Girl’s Guide to Manners: The Secrets to Grace, Confidence, and Being Your Best
Learning good manners has never been more fun than with this book filled with full-color illustrations and quizzes.
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A Smart Girl’s Guide to Starting Middle School: Everything You Need to Know about Juggling More Homework, More Teachers, and More Friends! Revised Editio
Starting middle school can be scary. But knowing what to expect will make girls feel more confident.
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A Smart Girl’s Guide: Digital World
Just like the real world, the digital world is full of exciting, helpful, and even life-changing possibilities. And just as in the real world, a girl needs to know how to navigate it wisely and keep herself safe.
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A Smart Girl’s Guide: Worry: How to Feel Less Stressed and Have More Fun
In these pages, a girl can learn tried-and-true ways to overcome fears and create a sense of calm. She can take quizzes to discover more about herself and her concerns, and read advice from real girls who found ways to deal with their own worries.
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Asperger’s and Girls
Because the majority of those diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders are boys and men, the voices of girls on the spectrum have been practically inaudible—until now.
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Attending and Thriving: Lessons on inclusion from autistic adolescent girls who stopped attending school
Featuring Dr. Ruth Moyse
This one hour webinar will include the following topics, not necessarily in this order:
Absenteeism – a problem for autistic girls
Masking: the implications for support (for her and for you)
The importance of language
Red flags at school – different for autistic girls?
Locating the problem – and responsibility for the solution
The impact of unmet needs
Empowering autistic ‘voices’
Recommendations to inform practice
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Education and Girls on the Autism Spectrum – Developing an Integrated Approach
A multi-disciplinary collection about understanding and addressing the key issues in education for girls with autism. The book offers recommendations for a collaborative and integrated approach within a variety of settings that enable girls on the spectrum to reach their full potential.
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Ellie Needs to Go – A book about how to use public toilets safely for girls and young women with autism and related conditions
In this picture book, we join Ellie as she is out and about and needs to use a public toilet. It provides parents and carers with the opportunity to teach girls and young women with autism and other special needs how to use public toilets safely and to understand the social etiquette.
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Girls and Autism – Educational, Family and Personal Perspectives
Often thought of as a predominantly ‘male’ disorder, autism has long gone unidentified, unnoticed and unsupported in girls – sometimes with devastating consequences for their social and mental well-being. As current research reveals a much more balanced male-to-female ratio in autism, this book provides crucial insight into autistic girls’ experiences, helping professionals to recognize, understand, support and teach them effectively.
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Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum: What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-Teen and Teenage Years
Growing up isn’t easy, and the trials and tribulations of being a teenager can be particularly confusing for girls with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASDs). This book covers all the concerns commonly faced by girls with ASDs and their parents…
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I am an Autistic Girl – A Book to Help Young Girls Discover and Celebrate Being Autistic
Lizzie is an autistic girl, which means that her brain works differently to her friends, and even to autistic boys! In this book, Lizzie explains what it’s like to be an autistic girl, including how she has a special talent for blending in with her friends, how she can get really tired after being at school all day, how she worries about making mistakes, and how she finds it hard to understand how she is feeling.
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Middle School: The Stuff Nobody Tells You About – A Teenage Girl with High-Functioning Autism Shares Her Experiences
Aimed at young teens, Middle School tackles the issues that girls this age care about: fitting in, making friends, wearing the right clothes, succeeding academically and more. The book’s “for teens, by teens” approach makes it an easy, fun read while g
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Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls: When It Has Been Hidden Well
How can we look behind the mask to recognize autism, when it has been so well camouflaged? Recognizing Autism in Women and Girls: When It Has Been Hidden Well provides the perspective needed to see how autism manifests in gendered ways, allowing for a more accurate diagnosis.
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Slug Days
Seeing the world very differently because of her Asperger syndrome, young Lauren struggles to navigate the challenges of school life and masters tricks to stay calm, understand others’ feelings, and let her personality shine.
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Spectrum Women – Walking to the Beat of Autism
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.
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The Aspie Girl’s Guide to Being Safe with Men
Aspie girls and women are incredibly vulnerable to having bad sexual experiences with men, whether or not they are interested in pursuing dating and sexual relationships. This must-read book spells out the unwritten safety rules around dating, relationships and sex, informing and empowering them to live full and independent lives while staying safe.
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The Autism-Friendly Guide to Periods
Changes during puberty, such as the onset of periods, are challenging for girls on the autism spectrum. Written from experience by an autistic woman, this straightforward guide to periods helps the reader to prepare in great detail, from hygiene to pain medication and sensory experiences to mood swings.
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The Autists – Women on the Spectrum
An incisive and deeply candid account that explores autistic women in culture, myth, and society through the prism of the author’s own diagnosis.
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