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  A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome

  A Self-Determined Future with Asperger syndrome presents an empowering, practical approach to helping people with Asperger syndrome (AS) to succeed at college, at work, at home and in life. The authors highlight how treating AS as a ‘problem’ is unproductive, and advocate a solution focused approach which recognizes and uses the strengths of people with AS to foster mutual respect and understanding.Drawing on both their personal experience and knowledge of counseling, the authors use anecdotes and stories to show how people with AS cope in day-to-day situations.

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  A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome

  A Self-Determined Future with Asperger Syndrome presents an empowering, practical approach to helping people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) to succeed at college, at work, at home and in life. The […]

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  A Slant of Sun

  “How is it possible to reach children who slink away in the rooms of their minds, who use language as song and not as dialogue, who obsess over red cars, and over blue? How is it possible not to? Our family stumbled forward as all such afflicted families do, and little by little we found cracks of light and turned them into sun. We have been infuriated and lonely and burning and wounded and repeatedly we have been blessed.” There are over 400,000 Americans living with autism; this book may help to connect their families.

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  A Slant of Sun: One Child’s Courage

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  A Small White Scar

  2008 Winner of the Dolly Gray Award for Literature School Library Journal comments, Starred Review. Grade 5-8–Since the death of their mother seven years earlier, Will, 15, has been responsible for his disabled twin. His desire to help on his father’s ranch, ride off to the rodeo, prove himself as a man, and escape being his brother’s caregiver is the pivot of the plot; the fact that Denny follows him, showing himself to be just as tenacious and stubborn as Will, drives the plot to another level. The unique bond shared by the boys is aptly described.

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  A Special Book About Me

  There’s a kid at school who gets extra help from a special teacher. He has temper tantrums when he is angry and sometimes finds it hard to pay attention. He might even have been to a special school to learn how to behave appropriately in class. One day this kid started to ask questions like, ‘Why do I feel different – am I not like other kids?’ This kid might be a little different from others in some ways…but this kid is not stupid! Can you solve the mystery of the special kid? ‘This book offers a fun and accessible introduction for a child diagnosed with Asperger syndrome (AS).

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  A Special Book about Me: A Book for Children Diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome (Asperger Syndrome After the Diagnosis)

  ‘There’s a kid at school who gets extra help from a special teacher. He has temper tantrums when he is angry and sometimes finds it hard to pay attention. He […]

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  A Special Education

  While supplies last, you save $5.49 (25%) Dana Buchman knew almost nothing about “learning differences” when her oldest daughter, Charlotte, was diagnosed with neurological, spatial, and motor skill disabilities as a toddler. Furthermore, from the Ivy League to the launch of her own fashion label, Buchman had encountered few obstacles that couldn’t be overcome through hard work and determination.

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  A Special Kind of Brain

  Sharing the experience of bringing up a child with nonverbal learning disability (NLD), this warm and accessible book offers advice on subjects ranging across diagnosis and therapy, children’s interaction with each other, suitable activities for a child with NLD and how to discuss NLD with children. An essential guide, this book will reassure, advise and inform parents and professionals who work with children with NLD. Nancy Russell Burger is a freelance writer whose nine-year-old son, Jimmy, was diagnosed with NLD at the age of four. Foreword by Byron P. Rourke. 224 pages. 2004

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