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Talking teenagers : information and inspiration for parents of teenagers with autism or Asperger's syndrome /
Ann Boushéy's teenage son Jon was diagnosed with high-functioning autism in kindergarten. Having mastered the day-to-day challenges that parenting a young child with autism or Asperger's Syndrome pose, Talking Teenagers considers questions surrounding parenting across the spectrum during...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Philadelphia :
Jessica Kingsley Publishers,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A parent's heartache, ever present
- Chicken nugget #1: HFA or AS? what's the diff?
- What do I tell people about autism?
- Chicken nugget #2: What do we do with the good intentions of others?
- IEPs and those elusive goals?
- Chicken nugget #3: Autism and gray
- Charting growth
- Chicken nugget #4: Living with fear
- Understanding Jon's way of understanding or, Lost in translation is not just a movie title
- Chicken nugget #5: "Sometimes it's all Greek to me too!"--explaining terminology
- What to take on vacation
- Chicken nugget #6: On perseveration--"stop beating that dead horse!"
- What about anger? : just because your child has a disability, doesn't make you a doormat!
- Chicken nugget # 7: "I love you, but we are not connected at the hip!"
- Straight talk for parents : "we need to be like the energizer bunny, we must keep going and going-- "-- Chicken nugget #8: Birthday parties-so simple, yet so impossible
- An interview with the school counselor
- Chicken nugget #9: "Is there a lesson in these socks?"-dealing with tactile issues
- A bully by any other name is still a bully
- Chicken nugget # 10: when parents hit a brick wall in communication
- An interview with an expert on autism-Dr. B.J. Freeman
- Chicken nugget #11: Literally speaking
- Choosing your battles: fighting the system
- Chicken nugget #12: "Get off my back! please!"-understanding rudeness
- An interview with a parent expert-Emily Perl Kingsley
- Chicken nugget #13: Stopping to note the successes-a trip to the dentist
- Planning for our own demise : an interview with an attorney
- Chicken nugget #14: Changing my view
- Resources-remix: useful information and resources
- Chicken nugget #15: "We must see differently!"
- Explaining their differences to our teens
- Chicken nugget #16: Thoughts on normal
- A case for empathy
- Chicken nugget #17: "But do I have to fix him?"
- The s-e-x word meets the a-u-t-i-s-m word
- Chicken nugget #18: Waiting for the other shoe to drop-optimistically being pessimistic
- Charting behaviors
- Chicken nugget #19: Three steps forward, one step back-not the latest dance craze
- Family members and autism : the good, the bad, and the ugly
- Chicken nugget #20: Finding hope at the library
- Autism and religion
- Chicken nugget #21: Angels by my side
- Shadow dancing
- Chicken nugget #22: Serendipity-the sauce for those nuggets!