This insider account written by an individual with Asperger Syndrome (AS) provides much-needed information about a subject increasing interest: people with AS working in management positions. Johnson draws on his experiences to explain how elements such as the working environment, managing staff, group dynamics and office politics can have a ......
Packed with planning tips, resources, moral support, and problem-solving strategies that get results, this is a book that savvy parents should turn to again and again.
Understanding Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Stephen: The Eccentric Entomologist. Heather: A World That Revolves around a Different Axis. Justin: Listening to the Architecture of the World. Zachary: An Obsession with Death. Sharon: Seeing Other Minds Darkly. William: A World without Metaphor. Teddy: Asynchronous Time, Asynchronous Development.
When Mabelline sets out on a journey to visit her pen pal Rosa, she doesn't expect to be staying quite so long as she does. Mabelline quickly takes Rosa and her son Carlos to her heart, but she knows right away there is something different about the boy. When tragedy occurs, Mabelline is forced to be responsible for Carlos as he struggles to fit ......
Information and Inspiration for Parents Dealing with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome
When a child is diagnosed with autism or Asperger's Syndrome, what a parent needs most is information and inspiration. After her son Jon was diagnosed with high-functioning autism in kindergarten, Ann Boushéy soon learned that, for her, knowledge was the key to peace. Written out of her own experience, this inspirational book provides the ......
Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963. She was assessed at age two as psychotic, labelled disturbed and tested for deafness throughout childhood before being diagnosed as autistic in 1990. Today she is an internationally best-selling author with nine published books, an artist, singer-songwriter and emerging screenwriter. One of the most ......
How do teenagers with Asperger Syndrome view themselves and their own lives?This book is based on extensive interviews with adolescents diagnosed with AS. It includes six life stories, written in collaboration with the teenagers themselves. These present an authentic and fascinating look at the lives of the teenagers and how AS has shaped their ......
Peter Myers is an artist whose work has appeared in exhibitions all over the world, and has been made into postcards, posters and mugs. Peter has Asperger's Syndrome and lives in York, UK. Visit his website at www.artisticautistic.co.uk.
Supporting Parents explores the range of supports that parents find effective and how those supports might be improved or better mobilized. In this overview of a series of research studies commissioned by the Department of Health, David Quinton considers the relationship between formal and informal support and how different forms of support, such ......
