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Teaching at home : a new approach to tutoring children with autism and Asperger syndrome /

Faced with the apparent inability of her autistic son Billy to learn and socialize with other children at school, Olga Holland decided to teach him at home. Where traditional educational approaches had produced limited results, the author's own method of teaching succeeded, over a period of two...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Holland, Olga, 1957-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Prologue
  • pt. I. The Journey to the Aristotle School. Billy grows up
  • Face to face with autism
  • Making the decision
  • The deal with the district
  • Setting up a school at home
  • Homework
  • pt. II. Adjusting to a Non-Typical World. In the debris of two minds
  • Where are you, Billy?
  • Are you with me?
  • Minding the "D" words
  • Eye language
  • Body language
  • Attention!
  • pt. III. A Teacher's Strategies. Connecting the world
  • On acquiring knowledge
  • Remember?
  • The five-senses approach
  • English as a step-language
  • Every person has a story
  • pt. IV. Afterthoughts and Milestones. In search of humor
  • Why Aristotle?
  • Milestones
  • Epilogue