Rethinking Autism

✏Book Title : Rethinking Autism
✏Author : Lynn Waterhouse
✏Publisher : Academic Press
✏Release Date : 2013
✏Pages : 464
✏ISBN : 9780124159617
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rethinking Autism Book Summary : There is a near hysteria over dramatic increases in autism prevalence at a time when we still don't know what causes the disorder and have no known cures. More and more money is being poured into autism research with conflicting research findings, none of which appear to be getting us closer to prevention or treatment. This book carefully examines the psychology, neuroscience, genetic, and medical research findings to date from autism research and provocatively suggests that what we've labeled "autism" is several different disorders, and the way forward for more effective research for prevention and treatment. Autism is a massive worldwide problem with increasing prevalence rates, now thought to be as high as 1 in 38 children (Korea) and 1 in 100 children (CDC- US) Autism is the 3rd most common developmental disability. 400,000 people in the US alone have autism Autism effects entire brain including communication, social behavior, reasoning and is lifelong There is no known cause and no cure Funding for Autism research quadrupled from 1995 to 2000 up to $45m, and the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee has recommended $1billion funding from 2010-2015

✏Book Title : Re Thinking Autism
✏Author : Sami Timimi
✏Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
✏Release Date : 2016-05-05
✏Pages : 336
✏ISBN : 9781784500276
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Re Thinking Autism Book Summary : Challenging existing approaches to autism that limit, and sometimes damage, the individuals who attract and receive the label, this book questions the lazy prejudices and assumptions that can surround autism as a diagnosis in the 21st Century. Arguing that autism can only be understood through examining 'it' as a socially or culturally produced phenomenon, the authors offer a critique of the medical model that has produced a perpetually marginalising approach to autism, and explain the contradictions and difficulties inherent in existing attitudes. They examine and dispute the scientific validity of diagnosis and 'treatment', asking whether autism actually exists at the biological level, and question the value of diagnosis in the lives of those labelled with autism. The book recognises that there are no easy answers but encourages engagement with these essential questions, and looks towards service provision and practice that moves beyond a reliance on all-encompassing labels. This unique contribution to the growing field of critical autism studies brings together authors from clinical psychiatry, clinical and community psychology, social sciences, disability studies, education and cultural studies, as well as those with personal experiences of autism. It is essential and challenging reading for anyone with a personal, professional or academic interest in 'autism'.

✏Book Title : Communication Alternatives in Autism
✏Author : Edlyn Vallejo Peña
✏Publisher : McFarland
✏Release Date : 2019-08-30
✏Pages : 215
✏ISBN : 9781476637136
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Communication Alternatives in Autism Book Summary : Ten autistic self-advocates share their experiences with alternative forms of communication such as rapid prompting method (RPM) and facilitated communication (FC), both highly controversial. Their narratives document the complexities that autistic individuals navigate--in both educational and community settings--when choosing to use approaches that utilize letter boards and keyboards. While the controversies remain--RPM requires further scientific study, and FC is subject to criticism about confirmation bias--these individuals share powerful stories in the context of aiming for disability rights. The book concludes with a chapter about best practices for educators, particularly for schools and colleges that have students who use these communication methods.

✏Book Title : The Handbook of Solitude
✏Author : Robert J. Coplan
✏Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
✏Release Date : 2013-12-02
✏Pages : 608
✏ISBN : 9781118427385
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Handbook of Solitude Book Summary : This reference work offers a comprehensive compilation of current psychological research related to the construct of solitude Explores numerous psychological perspectives on solitude, including those from developmental, neuropsychological, social, personality, and clinical psychology Examines different developmental periods across the lifespan, and across a broad range of contexts, including natural environments, college campuses, relationships, meditation, and cyberspace Includes contributions from the leading international experts in the field Covers concepts and theoretical approaches, empirical research, as well as clinical applications

✏Book Title : The Autistic Brain
✏Author : Temple Grandin
✏Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
✏Release Date : 2013-04-30
✏Pages : 304
✏ISBN : 9780547858180
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Autistic Brain Book Summary : Temple Grandin may be the most famous person with autism, a condition that affects 1 in 88 children. Since her birth in 1947, our understanding of it has undergone a great transformation, leading to more hope than ever before that we may finally learn the causes of and treatments for autism. Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries, Grandin introduces the advances in neuroimaging and genetic research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing her own brain scan to show which anomalies might explain common symptoms. Most excitingly, she argues that raising and educating kids on the autism spectrum must focus on their long-overlooked strengths to foster their unique contributions. The Autistic Brain brings Grandin’s singular perspective into the heart of the autism revolution.

✏Book Title : Rethinking Life
✏Author : Emmanuel M. Kolini
✏Publisher : InterVarsity Press
✏Release Date : 2010-02-01
✏Pages : 200
✏ISBN : 9780830857470
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rethinking Life Book Summary : Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini (ret.) and missionary Peter Holmes debunk myths about African experience so that Western Christians may glean wisdom from the world s fastest growing church.

✏Book Title : Theories of Autism
✏Author : Cheryl D. Seifert
✏Publisher : University Press of Amer
✏Release Date : 1990
✏Pages : 98
✏ISBN : MINN:31951D007318338
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Theories of Autism Book Summary : With investigative groups running independent of each other, the major goal of this book is to provide a comprehensive guide to theories of autism, including results of major studies of behavior within the context of a biological explanation of autism. Two opposing theoretical systems are compared-psychoanalytic theory and modern evolutionary theory-and the latter, a biological approach to personality theory is confirmed. By appreciating the Chapter played by heredity and the environment, this book offers a fresh and insightful understanding of autism. It reads as a thorough overview and history of the literature and thinking on the subject of autism over the past 40 years. Contents: Rethinking Theories of Autism; Defining Autism; An Evolutionary View of Personality Development; Piaget's Analysis of Intelligence; Language and Thought in Autism; Aphasias and Autism; Human-Figure Drawing as a Projection of Autistic Experience; and Theoretical Bases of Treatments. Includes illustrations.

✏Book Title : Rethinking the Education Improvement Agenda
✏Author : Kevin J. Flint
✏Publisher : A&C Black
✏Release Date : 2011-12-01
✏Pages : 320
✏ISBN : 9781441170187
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rethinking the Education Improvement Agenda Book Summary : Offering a philosophical perspective to the educational improvement agenda, this engaging text provides a new language for research into educational improvement, bringing leading-edge philosophy to current practice. Drawing on philosophical work, including that of Derrida, Foucault and Heidegger, the authors deconstruct the ethic of improvement before exploring key dimensions of education, its institutions and technologies. Each chapter draws on international case studies, provides engaging questions and makes suggestions for further reading to support the reader. Topics covered include: • The Ethic of Improvement • Teacher Education • Leadership and Management • Lifelong Learning • The Rhetoric of Numbers • The Governance of Childhood • The State of Education Research An essential text for all looking at how we think and talk about education and improvement.

✏Book Title : Rethinking Special Education for a New Century
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2001
✏Pages : 364
✏ISBN : STANFORD:36105112484733
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rethinking Special Education for a New Century Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Treatment of Neurodevelopmental Disorders
✏Author : Randi Hagerman
✏Publisher : Oxford University Press
✏Release Date : 2014-04-25
✏Pages : 352
✏ISBN : 9780199378883
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Treatment of Neurodevelopmental Disorders Book Summary : This cutting-edge book brings advances in genetics, neurobiology, and psychopharmacology to the clinic to enhance treatment for neurodevelopmental disorders. Significant progress has been made in identifying the neurobiological mechanisms of several disorders and targeted treatments are modifying the outcome of these disorders. However, the ability to utilize this knowledge has not been summarized in one place for the practicing clinician. This book will fill that gap by providing the theoretical underpinnings and the latest advances in targeted treatments. Several neurodevelopmental disorders are reviewed in detail including clinical features and behavioral phenotypes, standard treatments and new targeted treatments based on the latest advances in neurobiology and the animal model studies that have led to new treatments. The disorders covered include psychiatric disorders: schizophrenia, depression, autism and ADHD; single gene disorders including Tuberous Sclerosis, Fragile X Syndrome and fragile X- associated disorders, Angelman Syndrome, PKU, and Muscular Dystrophies; and complex genetic disorders such as Down syndrome. This book also highlights the commonalities across disorders and new genetic and molecular concepts in an easy to read format. This is a very exciting time for new targeted treatments and this volume is a landmark treatise on this new age of treatment.

✏Book Title : The Handbook of Language Socialization
✏Author : Alessandro Duranti
✏Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
✏Release Date : 2011-08-24
✏Pages : 608
✏ISBN : 9781444342888
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Handbook of Language Socialization Book Summary : Documenting how in the course of acquiring language children become speakers and members of communities, The Handbook of Language Socialization is a unique reference work for an emerging and fast-moving field. Spans the fields of anthropology, education, applied linguistics, and human development Includes the latest developments in second and heritage language socialization, and literary and media socialization Discusses socialization across the entire life span and across institutional settings, including families, schools, work places, and churches Explores data from a multitude of cultures from around the world

✏Book Title : Autism The Movement Perspective
✏Author : Elizabeth B Torres
✏Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
✏Release Date : 2015-05-19
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : 9782889195091
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Autism The Movement Perspective Book Summary : Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is portrayed as cognitive and social disorders. Undoubtedly, impairments in communication and restricted-repetitive behaviors that now define the disorders have a profound impact on social interactions. But can we go beyond the descriptive, observational nature of this definition and objectively measure that amalgamate of motions and sensations that we call behavior? In this Research Topic we bring movement and its sensation to the forefront of autism research, diagnosis, and treatment. We gather researchers across disciplines with the unifying goal of recognizing movement and sensory disturbances as core symptoms of the disorder. We also hear confirmation from the perspective of autism self-advocates and parents. Those important sources of evidence along with the research presented in this topic demonstrate without a doubt that profound movement and sensory differences do exist in ASD and that they are quantifiable. The work presented in this Research Topic shows us that quantifiable differences in movements have a better chance than current observational techniques to help us uncover subtle solutions that the nervous system with autism has already spontaneously self-discovered and utilized in daily living. Where the naked eye would miss the unique subtleties that help each individual cope, instrumentation and fine kinematic analyses of motions help us uncover inherent capacities and predispositions of the person with autism. The work presented in this topic helps us better articulate through the voices of parents and self-advocates those sensory motor differences that current inventories could not possibly uncover. These differences are seldom perceived as they take place at timescales and frequencies that fall largely beneath our conscious awareness. To the person in the spectrum living with this disorder and to the caregiver creating accommodations to help the affected loved one, these subtleties are very familiar though. Indeed they are often used in clever ways to facilitate daily routines. We have waited much too long in science to listen to the very people that we are trying to define, understand and help. Being autism a social problem by definition, it is remarkable that not a single diagnosis inventory measures the dyadic social interaction that takes place between the examiner and the examinees. Indeed we have conceived the autistic person within a social context where we are incapable –by definition– of accepting those differences. The burden is rather placed on the affected person to whom much too often we refer to in the third person as “non-verbal, without intentionality, without empathy or emotions, without a theory of mind”, among other purely psychological guesses. It is then too easy and shockingly allowed to “reshape” that person, to mold that person to better conform to our social expectations and to extinguish “behaviors” that are socially unacceptable, even through the use of aversive punishing reinforcement techniques if need be. And yet none of those techniques have had a single shred of objective scientific evidence of their effectiveness. We have not objectively measured once, nor have we physiologically characterized once any of those perceived features that we so often use to observationally define what we may think the autistic phenotype may be. We have not properly quantified, beyond paper-and-pencil methods, the effectiveness of interventions in autism. Let us not forget when we do our science, that we are all part of the broad human spectrum.

✏Book Title : Autism
✏Author : David Dickson
✏Publisher : Nelson Thornes
✏Release Date : 1996
✏Pages : 161
✏ISBN : 0412614502
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Autism Book Summary : High standards of interpersonal communication are fundamental to effective health care delivery. Communication Skills Training for Health Professionals succeeds in providing the sound theoretical basis and practical approach needed to implement a higher standard of care through better communication. This is an essential part of the relatinship between the health care provider and both the client and carer, and of course, between providers themselves. By giving an explanation of the underlying rationale for CST, together with the principles of training programme design, implementation, transfer and evaluation, the book becomes essential as a resource, applicable in any health care setting.

✏Book Title : Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone
✏Author : Douglas Biklen
✏Publisher : NYU Press
✏Release Date : 2005-08-01
✏Pages : 304
✏ISBN : 0814799272
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Autism and the Myth of the Person Alone Book Summary : The prevailing view of autism and disability is redefined in this beautifully written book.

✏Book Title : Autism and Spirituality
✏Author : Olga Bogdashina
✏Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
✏Release Date : 2013-07-28
✏Pages : 272
✏ISBN : 9780857005915
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Autism and Spirituality Book Summary : Olga Bogdashina argues persuasively that, contrary to popular belief, spirituality plays a vital role in the lives of many people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Drawing on interdisciplinary research from fields as diverse as psychology, philosophy, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience and religion, as well as first-hand experiences of people on the spectrum, she shows how people with ASD experience their inner worlds and sense of self, and how this shapes the spiritual dimension of their lives and vice versa. She presents a coherent framework for understanding the routes of spiritual development and 'spiritual giftedness' within this group, offering insights that will inform understanding of how to support and nurture spiritual wellbeing in people with ASDs. This book gives a voice to both verbal and non-verbal individuals on the autism spectrum whose spiritual experiences, though often unconventional, are meaningful and profound. It is essential reading for all those interested in the spiritual wellbeing of this group, including pastoral carers and counsellors, ministers of religion, spiritual leaders, parents and carers and individuals on the autism spectrum.

✏Book Title : Psychodynamic Art Therapy Practice with People on the Autistic Spectrum
✏Author : Matt Dolphin
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2013-08-15
✏Pages : 162
✏ISBN : 9781134481132
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Psychodynamic Art Therapy Practice with People on the Autistic Spectrum Book Summary : Psychodynamic Art Therapy Practice with People on the Autistic Spectrum offers a valuable counterbalance to the phenomenological, cognitive and behavioural theories that currently prevail in the wider field of practice and research. The result of a decade of work by a group of highly experienced art therapists, this book presents eight frank and compelling accounts of art therapy with either adults or children with autism, supported by a discussion of the relevant theory. The book begins with an overview of the theoretical context and the subsequent chapters give varied accounts of practitioners’ experiences structured in a loose developmental arc, reflecting issues that may arise in different settings and at various stages of therapy. Each is followed by an afterword which describes the author’s reflections in the light of their subsequent knowledge and experience. The conclusion brings together some of the common threads arising from their encounters and considers how these might be relevant to current and continuing art therapy practice in the field of autism. Psychodynamic Art Therapy Practice with People on the Autistic Spectrum is a thoughtful consideration of where art therapy meets autism and the particular challenges that arise in the encounter between the autistic client and the therapist. Presenting honest reflections arising from lived encounters and highlighting general principles and experiences, this book aims to orient other practitioners who work with people on the autistic spectrum, in particular art therapists and art therapy trainees.

✏Book Title : The Academy Letter
✏Author :
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2002
✏Pages :
✏ISBN : CHI:62542741
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Academy Letter Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Autism Spectrum Disorders
✏Author : Dermot Bowler
✏Publisher : John Wiley & Sons Incorporated
✏Release Date : 2007
✏Pages : 308
✏ISBN : UCSC:32106018962677
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Autism Spectrum Disorders Book Summary : Psychological research into autism spectrum disorders (ASD) has increased exponentially in the last two decades. Much of this work has been led by various theorists who claim to have identified processes that hold the key to understanding the condition. As a consequence, newcomers to the field feel that they have to opt for one or more of the competing approaches and to neglect the remainder as being in some way wrong. In fact, the different theoretical perspectives are just that - different points of view on the same phenomenon - each with its own insights to offer. This is not to say that understanding ASD in psychological terms is just a matter of choosing a perspective and that all perspectives are of equal value. Clearly they are not. This book, in addition to providing an outline of what current perspectives have to offer, also provides a framework to help readers to decide which aspects of psychological research into ASD contribute to our understanding of the field and how these can be integrated in a way that enables research to be taken forward.

✏Book Title : Autism and Cognitive Architecture
✏Author : Miklós Győri
✏Publisher : Akademiai Kiado
✏Release Date : 2006
✏Pages : 235
✏ISBN : UVA:X030101571
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Autism and Cognitive Architecture Book Summary : The present volume attempts to integrate two streams of cognitive research which often run parallel: largely conceptual investigations on the overall framework of human cognition and the much more empirical study of neurocognitive developmental disorders in this case, autism. The book is partly a conceptual analysis exploring the issue of domain specificity and its place in cognitive theory, but it also offers a detailed summary of the phenomena of autism, a critical evaluation of its cognitive psychological models, and presents new empirical findings on the complexity of beyond-childhood development of theory of mind ability in autism. Besides the integration and an overview of these three major themes, the novelty of the presented theses lies primarily in the comprehensiveness of the offered conceptual framework for domain-specificity, and in the empirical findings which strongly suggest that functioning theory of mind ability and non-theory-of-mind compensatory strategies co-exist

✏Book Title : Rethinking ADHD
✏Author : Sami Timimi
✏Publisher : Red Globe Press
✏Release Date : 2009-03-31
✏Pages : 418
✏ISBN : UOM:39015080859880
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rethinking ADHD Book Summary : This book brings together, for the first time, a selection of international critiques on the role of ADHD in our society today, looking at how diagnoses have increased in recent years and the reasons behind this. Topics range from genetics to social culture, offering a comprehensive overview of this area.

✏Book Title : Rethinking the Brain
✏Author : Rima Shore
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 1997
✏Pages : 92
✏ISBN : UOM:39015042148356
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rethinking the Brain Book Summary : Applies recent discoveries in the neuropsychology of early child development to practices in child care.

✏Book Title : Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism
✏Author : Eric Schopler
✏Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
✏Release Date : 1998-04-30
✏Pages : 409
✏ISBN : 0306457466
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Asperger Syndrome or High Functioning Autism Book Summary : The precise relationship between high-functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome is still a subject of debate. This volume provides a general overview of the disorder and present diverse opinions on diagnosis and assessment, neuropsychological issues, treatment, and related conditions. A special section features personal essays by individuals diagnosed with autism or Asperger Syndrome. The result is a comprehensive and useful survey of the current state of the field that will be of great interest to clinicians, teachers, researchers, and parents.

✏Book Title : Technology Autism Spectrum Disorders ASD
✏Author : California. Legislature. Senate. Select Committee on Autism & Related Disorders
✏Publisher :
✏Release Date : 2012
✏Pages : 121
✏ISBN : UCR:31210020565634
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Technology Autism Spectrum Disorders ASD Book Summary :

✏Book Title : Autism and Personality
✏Author : Anne Alvarez
✏Publisher : Routledge
✏Release Date : 2013-04-15
✏Pages : 288
✏ISBN : 9781134686421
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Autism and Personality Book Summary : Taking a psychoanalytic and developmental approach, Autism and Personality outlines in considerable detail the new developments in therapeutic techniques used by the Tavistock Autism Team and Workshop to treat autistic children. It also underlines the importance of support for parents and siblings, who are all too often ignored under considerable stress. The book presents fresh ideas about the importance of personality for the developmental course of the condition, and the implications for psychotherapeutic technique. Using case vignettes to illustrate the theoretical ideas emerging from the Workshop, coupled with case studies which highlight the patient's changing contact with the therapist, it gives a fascinating picture of the individuality of each child and of the sensitivity and skill required for each treatment. Accessible to professionals and also to parents, Autism and Personality is a valuable insight into the nature and course of this condition and its treatment.

✏Book Title : Challenging The Myths Of Autism
✏Author : Jonathan Alderson
✏Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
✏Release Date : 2011-08-23
✏Pages : 272
✏ISBN : 9781443408356
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Challenging The Myths Of Autism Book Summary : How many times have you heard that people with autism lack creativity? That they reject affection or suffer from mental retardation? As the number of children diagnosed with autism surges, researchers and educators are racing to define the amorphous nature of this spectrum disorder and its wide range of symptoms. But in trying to characterize this widely varying group, people often perpetuate a host of limiting and potentially damaging misconceptions in the media, in academic journals and even in textbooks. These myths don’t hold up when examined, and they don’t reflect Jonathan Alderson’s experience working with more than 2,000 children and families over two decades. Provocative and meticulously researched, Challenging the Myths of Autism looks at the most prevalent fallacies, explains how they developed, examines why dispelling them matters and, most importantly, sets out a new understanding that will change the way parents and professionals view autism. With examples from his own practice, Alderson charts a whole new realm of possibilities for treatment and research.

✏Book Title : The Effects of Autism on the Family
✏Author : Eric Schopler
✏Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
✏Release Date : 2013-06-29
✏Pages : 364
✏ISBN : 9781489922939
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏The Effects of Autism on the Family Book Summary : As the oldest statewide program serving autistic people in the United States, North Carolina's Division TEACCH (Treatment and Education of Autistic and related Communication handicapped CHildren) has had a major impact on ser vices for these people and their families. As we move into our second decade, we are frequently questioned about all aspects of our procedures, techniques, and program. Of all the questions that are asked, however, the one that comes up most frequently and seems to set our program apart from others concerns the ways in which we work with families. To help answer this question we identified what we have found to be the major components in our parent-professional relationships, and we elaborate on these with the most current research informa tion, clinical insights, and community knowledge available through the expertise of our distinguished contributors. Our purpose was to collect the most recent information and to organize the resulting volume along the outlines of the par ent-professional relationship found most important in the TEACCH program. Thus, the four main sections of the book include these four major ways profes sionals work with parents: as their advocates, their trainers, their trainees, and their reciprocal emotional support source. To the extent this effort was success ful, we acknowledge that it is easier to organize book chapters along these dimensions than it is to provide their implementation in the field.

✏Book Title : Long Term Outcomes in Psychopathology Research
✏Author : American Psychopathological Association, Meeting Staff
✏Publisher : Oxford University Press
✏Release Date : 2015-12-02
✏Pages : 352
✏ISBN : 9780199378821
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Long Term Outcomes in Psychopathology Research Book Summary : Based on the 103rd annual meeting of the American Psychopathological Association, Long-Term Outcomes in Psychopathology Research: Rethinking the Scientific Agenda explores the long-term course of illness and functioning of individuals treated for mental health and substance use disorders and the outcomes research derived from these cases. Sections cover topics including: findings from long-term psychopathology outcome studies, problematic case definitions, differing perspectives on the concept of recovery, the need for continued long-term outcomes research, and research priorities for patients with chronic and severe disorders. The book employs the experiences of innovative mental health providers, reflecting the value of personal narratives in research conducted in cross-sectional increments with pre-formulated questions and response options. As psychiatry continues to refine its diagnostic categories and psychology demands greater attention to dimensionality, the need for interdisciplinary long-term studies is as critical as ever. This final volume in the American Psychopathological Association Series reflects on developments in outcomes research conducted in parallel with different disorders and offers suggestions for preserving long-term outcome studies as the mainstay of clinical knowledge.

✏Book Title : Autism and Understanding
✏Author : Walter Solomon
✏Publisher : SAGE
✏Release Date : 2012-05-17
✏Pages : 240
✏ISBN : 9781446264560
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Autism and Understanding Book Summary : "[The authors] provide a detailed breakdown of the scientific underpinnings of Waldon's theory in language accessible enough for parents and rigorous enough to satisfy the informed researcher/practitioner." - The Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders Daniel S. Posner, Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Icahn School of medicine at Mt Sinai, New York, NY The author sets out an approach based on Dr Geoffrey Waldon's philosophy of the development of understanding, which centres on helping children learn-how-to-learn. The book includes: - The inspirational and well documented story of the author's son, diagnosed at two with autism and as 'basically sub-normal', now a successful professional with a wife and child. - An introduction to Geoffrey Waldon's theory and working methods. - Testimony from parents and teachers, covering autism and a range of learning difficulties. This book does not offer a 'miracle cure' for autism, although the author aims to counteract the prevailing view that autism is a lifetime condition. The author demonstrates that with the appropriate intervention, children with autism - and other special needs - can gain a fuller understanding of the world and learn to take a constructive and contributing place in it. Teachers, therapists, doctors, parents and special interest groups will find this book an important and potentially transformational read. Listen to a podcast of Walter Solomon discuss the story of his son Robert, the motivation behind his new book and how to get started using the Waldon Approach. Listen here Or watch the video here!

✏Book Title : A Rude Awakening for a Boy with Autism
✏Author : Amelia Chin
✏Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
✏Release Date : 2014-10-21
✏Pages : 176
✏ISBN : 9781482826395
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏A Rude Awakening for a Boy with Autism Book Summary : Unravelling some spectrums of autism through the short, captivating accounts of a mother’s own experiences, this book is an inspirational read and an eye-opener. The perseverance of a mother’s love triumphs against all odds to see the unlocking of a maze – the little known atypical world of autism. “In this book, we are allowed into the honesty of Aaron’s struggles; his questions of ‘why me?’; his own spiritual development; his inspiring progress and determination to learn actions and behaviours that would make him appear ‘normal’, to fit in like everyone else. The result: he has ‘publicly and officially lost his autism stigma.” Pastor Anne Iuliano (Sydney) “A must-read for families coping with autism! This book offers pragmatic suggestions for coping with the uncertainties in the patterns of behaviour of autistic children. Autism has such a wide spectrum that plausibly no two cases are alike.” Dato’ Leela Mohd Ali, Trustee and CEO of PENYAYANG (a Malaysian NGO) “It is a book that everyone must read. It will enlighten us on what the ‘power of love’ can accomplish. Read it, understand it, experience it, and declare it!” Rev. Wong Kim Kong, JMN (Kuala Lumpur

✏Book Title : Rethinking Education
✏Author : Roger J. Williams
✏Publisher : New York : Philosophical Library
✏Release Date : 1986
✏Pages : 160
✏ISBN : UOM:39015014216900
✏Available Language : English, Spanish, And French

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✏Rethinking Education Book Summary : The world's most serious problems involve people's inability to peacefully coexist with other people. The only antidote to prejudice, injustice, murder, and terrorism is to develop an understanding of the many different patterns of human life. However, western civilization and its educational systems have developed into fragmented forms, resulting in numerous unrelated disciplines that disregard an overall perspective and do not promote the solution of multifaceted problems. This book proposes the unification of all knowledge and offers ideas for educational systems that consider human problems and prepare persons to live in a complex world. The benefits of interdisciplinary education include the fostering of human understanding, the seeking of mutual efforts toward solutions for human and social problems, and prevention of war. Factors involved in establishing successful interdisciplinary education programs include: (1) positive attitudes; (2) their emphasis and use by instructors; and (3) growth in the number of interdepartmental university seminars, programs, and research efforts. Appendices include information concerning the history, role, and interdependence of humanities, the social sciences, sciences, and ethics. (JHP)