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Autism adulthood : strategies and insights for a fulfilling life / Susan Senator.

Senator, Susan, (author.).

Summary:

"Autism Adulthood features thirty interviews with autistic adults, their parents, caregivers, researchers, and professionals. Each vignette reveals firsthand a family's challenge, their circumstances, their thought processes, and their unique solutions, and plans of action. Sharing the wisdom that emerges from parents and self-advocates experiences, Senator adds her own observations and conclusions based on her long-term experience with autism. Told in Senators trademark warm, honest, and approachable style, Autism Adulthood paints a vivid and thought-provoking picture of many people grappling with grown-up, real-life autism. Senators is the only book of its kind, as real families share their stories and their creative solutions,"--Amazon.com.

Record details

  • ISBN: 151070423X
  • ISBN: 9781510704237
  • Physical Description: xxix, 280 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
Part I: Constructing Autism Adulthood -- Introduction: Beginning at the End -- Chapter One: Post Twenty-Two Planning: Facing Transition -- Chapter Two: If You Want Something Better, Create It!: Employment and Job Training -- Chapter Three: Home Isn't Built in a Day -- Chapter Four: Staffing and Turning to Others -- Part II: Deconstructing Autism Adulthood -- Chapter Five: Helping Your Guy Find His Way: Acquiring Life Skills -- Chapter Six: The Struggles of Apparently High-Functioning Autistic Adults -- Chapter Seven: Autistic Adults with Communication or Apparent Cognitive Challenges -- Chapter Eight: Am I My Brother's Keeper? -- Chapter Nine: Autism Adulthood Health and Safety Issues -- Chapter Ten: I Can Never Die, and Other Myths.
Subject:
Autism spectrum disorders.
Autism.

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