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"Autism Adulthood features thirty interviews with autistic adults, their parents, caregivers, researchers, and professionals. Each vignette reveals firsthand a family's 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...
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Bloomsbury Pub
Pub. Date
2006
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230 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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"In 1982, at age four, Kamran Nazeer was enrolled in a small school in New York City alongside a dozen other children diagnosed with autism. Calling themselves the Idiots, these kids received care that was at the cutting edge of developmental psychology. Kamran visits four of his old classmates to find out the kind of lives that they are living now, how much they've been able to overcome--and what remains missing. They reveal a thought-provoking spectrum...
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"Autism is considered one of the most mystifying conditions of our day, and alarmed scientists, doctors, politicians, and parents are desperately trying to understand why the condition is escalating. According to the CDC, rates in the United States have risen from an estimated one in two thousand children in 1980, to one in sixty-eight in 2012, and a new National Health Interview Survey shows a rate of one in forty-five. By the time you read this...
7) Ginny Moon
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"Meet Ginny Moon. She's mostly your average teenager--she plays flute in the school band, has weekly basketball practice and reads Robert Frost poems for English class. But Ginny is autistic. And so what's important to her might seem a bit...different: starting every day with exactly nine grapes for breakfast, singing along to Michael Jackson, taking care of her baby doll...and crafting a secret plan of escape. Ginny has been in foster care for...
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"A groundbreaking book that upends conventional thinking about autism and suggests a broader model for acceptance, understanding, and full participation in society for people who think differently. What is autism: a devastating developmental disorder, a lifelong disability, or a naturally occurring form of cognitive difference akin to certain forms of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more--and the future of our society depends on our...
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Ediciones Urano, S. A. U
Pub. Date
2017.
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153 pages ; 22 cm
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You're a parent or teacher or therapist struggling to come to terms with the diagnosis of autism. You sense that drugs and behavior modification aren't the answer. But what is there? Here it is! A fresh new and boldly positive way to view autism as it really is ... not a problem or mystery but a gift in your life. Suzy Miller had been a highly skilled pediatric speech pathologist for close to two decades when, through an amazing experience with a...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
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viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"A cutting-edge account of the latest science of autism, from the best-selling author and advocate Temple Grandin is a star, a Time Magazine top 100 Hero and an inspiration to millions worldwide. Since she started writing and speaking about autism, the number of people diagnosed with it has skyrocketed--but so has the research that is transforming our understanding of the autistic brain. Now she brings her singular perspective to a thrilling journey...
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Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
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viii, 240 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Offers the latest research and science on autism, including new neuroimaging and genetic research that provides new theories on what causes autism spectrum disorders as well as new ways to treat and diagnose them.
18) Autism
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Amicus High Interest
Pub. Date
[2015]
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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"Describes what it is like to live with autism, what its symptoms are, and how it is treated"--
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Skyhorse Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
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xxiv, 199 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"Authors Mark Blaxill and Dan Olmsted believe autism is new, that the real rate is rising dramatically, and that those affected are injured and disabled, not merely “neurodiverse.” They call the refusal to acknowledge this reality Autism Epidemic Denial. This epidemic denial blocks the urgent need to confront and stop the epidemic and endangers our kids, our country, and our future."--Amazon.com.
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