Our Autistic Lives
Personal Accounts from Autistic Adults Around the World Aged 20 to 70+
Spanning six decades of experience, this collection of first-hand accounts from adults with Asperger's and High Functioning Autism is about ageing with an autistic mind and the advantages and challenges that different eras in life can bring. It highlights common themes, such as the difference made by a diagnosis, to unite the experiences.
- Copyright year: 2020
Trauma, Stigma, and Autism
Developing Resilience and Loosening the Grip of Shame
This book explores how stigma can cause trauma, providing guidance on how marginalised people can develop resilience to manage and heal from traumatic stigma. Gordon Gates draws on his experience as a crisis counsellor, philosophical research, and his lived experience of stigma, trauma and autism.
Autism and the Stress Effect
A 4-Step Lifestyle Approach to Transform Your Child's Health,Happiness and Vitality
This innovative intervention approach focuses on reducing the stress and anxiety in the life of a child with Autism.
- Copyright year: 2015
Toilet Training and Autism Spectrum Disorder
A Guide for Professionals
This book looks at toilet training difficulties for children with autism spectrum conditions, and presents practical interventions to help children overcome these problems. Packed with essential information on bowel and bladder function, this book also gives helpful advice for developing and implementing a toilet plan in different settings.
- Copyright year: 2015
Older Adults and Autism Spectrum Conditions
An Introduction and Guide
Highlighting the specific difficulties and challenges that older people with autism may face with regards to living arrangements, changes to social habits and communicating with carers, as well as health issues, this book shows ways to support people with autism as they reach retirement age.
- Copyright year: 2015
Marriage and Lasting Relationships with Asperger's Syndrome (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
Successful Strategies for Couples or Counselors
Offering practical advice straight from the couples counseling room, Eva A. Mendes provides an insider's view into what couples and counselors can do to help make an ASD relationship last. She outlines the challenges faced in an ASD relationship and provides strategies that can improve the lives and marriages of couples on a daily basis.
- Copyright year: 2015
What's Happening to Ellie?
A Book About Puberty for Girls and Young Women with Autism and Related Conditions
This simple picture book follows Ellie as she begins puberty. Designed to be read with girls with autism or other special needs, it provides the perfect starting point for parents and carers to discuss changes including new hair growth and menstruation.
- Copyright year: 2015
What Color is Monday?
How Autism Changed One Family for the Better
Carrie's son Jack sees days of the week as colors, has an astounding memory for birthdays, and is terrified of dogs - he also has autism. In this moving memoir, Carrie shows the realities of daily life parenting a family of five and supporting her son's special needs giving us a fascinating view into Jack's unique mind and a family built on love.
- Copyright year: 2015
What to Feed an Asperger?
How to go from three foods to three hundred with love, patience and a little sleight of hand
- Copyright year: 2015
A Brief Guide to Autism Treatments
Details 14 of the most popular treatments for autism, offering balanced overview of each treatment with current opinion and scientific data
- Copyright year: 2012
Inside Asperger's Looking Out
From the best-selling author of All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome and All Dogs Have ADHD, this is the perfect introduction to how Aspies see and experience the world, told from their own perspective, for the people in their lives.
- Copyright year: 2012
Asperkids
An Insider's Guide to Loving, Understanding and Teaching Children with Asperger Syndrome
- Copyright year: 2012
The Asperger Children's Toolkit
This handy volume explores key issues children with AS encounter, and includes interactive games and activities to promote mutual understanding.
- Copyright year: 2012
Gardening for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Special Educational Needs
Engaging with Nature to Combat Anxiety, Promote Sensory Integration and Build Social Skills
A practical introduction to using gardening with children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and special needs to teach valuable social, emotional and sensory skills.
- Copyright year: 2012
Autism All-Stars
How We Use Our Autism and Asperger Traits to Shine in Life
Writers from around the world - including Temple Grandin, Donna Williams, Deborah Lipsky, and Wendy Lawson -- share their experiences of creating a successful life on the autism spectrum.
- Copyright year: 2011
The Partner's Guide to Asperger Syndrome
Written from personal experiences by three women married to men on the Autism Spectrum who interviewed over a hundred people in their situation, this book explores all the common areas of difficultly in an Asperger and non-spectrum relationship from both perspectives.
- Copyright year: 2011
Trueman Bradley: Aspie Detective
Trueman Bradley – Aspie Detective is a fantasy adventure that will capture the imagination of anyone interested in Asperger's Syndrome.
- Copyright year: 2011
How Everyone on the Autism Spectrum, Young and Old, Can Become Resilient, Be More Optimistic, Enjoy Humour, Be Kind, and Increase Self-Efficacy
This complete "toolkit" provides teachers, parents, and other caregivers with everything they need to know to use positive psychology strategies to support children with ASD.
- Copyright year: 2011
A Beginner's Guide to Autism Spectrum Disorders
Essential Information for Parents and Professionals
This concise and straight-talking guide to Autism Spectrum Disorder will ensure parents, carers, teachers and other professionals feel confident, informed and able to cope with the road ahead.
- Copyright year: 2011