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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Holland, Olga, 1957-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005.
Subjects:
Autistic children > Education.
Home schooling.
Asperger's syndrome.
Enfants autistes > Éducation.
Syndrome d'Asperger.
École à la maison.
Child & Developmental Psychology.
Coping With Disability.
Advice On Parenting.
EDUCATION > Special Education > Learning Disabilities.
Asperger's syndrome
Autistic children > Education
Home schooling
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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

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