Succeeding in College with Asperger Syndrome: A student guide
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College life is particularly stressful for students with Asperger Syndrome (AS) and the resources that colleges provide for such students are often inadequate. This guide provides information to help these students prepare successfully for the rites and rituals of studying, interact with staff and fellow students, cope with expectations and pressures, and understand their academic and domestic responsibilities. How will I cope with the workload? What do I do if I feel ill? How do I make friends and initiate relationships with the opposite sex? Drawing on first hand interviews with AS students and direct clinical experience, the authors address these and many other questions , making practical recommendations.
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Succeeding in College with Asperger Syndrome
A student guide
John Harpur, Maria Lawlor and Michael Fitzgerald
Paperback, ISBN: 978-1-84310-201-4, 272pp, 2003, £13.95, $21.95
BIC: VFPD JBNL JDJ (ISBN 978-1-84310-201-4)
You're Going to Love this Kid: Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom
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Education professionals have a strategy-filled guidebook for including students with autism in both primary and secondary school classrooms. Alive with powerful first-person accounts that give readers insight into the experience of having autism, this book shows educators how to adapt their own classrooms to support student participation in classwork, school routines, social activities, and more.
Written by an 'insider', an openly gay autistic adult, Wendy Lawson writes frankly and honestly about autism, sex and sexuality. In her new book, she draws upon her own experience to examine the implications of being autistic on relationships, sex and sexuality. Having discussed subjects such as basic sex education and autism, the author goes further to explore the wider issues of interpersonal relationships, same sex attraction, bisexuality and transgender issues. She also examines the unspoken rules that exist between people in relationships and explains why these rules can be difficult and confusing for people with autism. This book will give courage and information to adults with autism or Asperger Syndrome and provide essential insights to those living and working with them.
Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook: An Employment
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The aim of the book is to enable individuals with Asperger Syndrome to produce an employment biography or work history. By following the steps detailed, and they are detailed, it is hoped the individual with Asperger Syndrome will recognize the lessons from their previous employment or experiences, and use them to advantage in job search and employment.
Imitation and the Social Mind; Autism and Typical Development
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From earliest infancy, a typically developing child imitates or mirrors the facial expressions, postures and gestures, and emotional behavior of others. Where does this capacity come from, and what function does it serve? What happens when imitation is impaired? Synthesizing cutting-edge research emerging from a range of disciplines, this important book examines the role of imitation in both autism and typical development. Topics include the neural and evolutionary bases of imitation, its pivotal connections to language development and relationships, and how early imitative deficits in autism might help explain the more overt social and communication problems of older children and adults.
Signs of Autism in Infants : Recognition and Early Intervention
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International researchers and clinicians renowned for their work in the field of early autism come together to resolve queries around the long debate on the development and resolution of autism. In this book contributors outline their views on the possibility of preventing the full development of autistic behaviour. They set down clear guidance for professionals in identifying early signs of alarm and offer a model of psychoanalytically informed interventions to treat the pre-autistic infant.
Autism Spectrum Disorders : A Special Issue of Child Neuropsychology
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Children with autism spectrum disorders share a pervasive impairment in the development of reciprocal social interaction skills but vary in their verbal and nonverbal communication skills and various restricted and repetitive behaviors. This variability presents challenges for developmental and neurobiological models. Our understanding of the autism spectrum disorders is improved by studying children at various points in development, including infants, and by using a careful neuropsychological approach. This approach is emphasized here in studies that examine characteristics of infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, neuropsychological test performance of children, and developmental information obtained from detailed, standardized parent interviews. Due to the pervasive nature of the autism spectrum disorders, attention difficulties are commonly observed. Studies that address specific aspects of attention are included, with an emphasis on how attention difficulties may help to explain the early symptoms and the characteristic social deficits in these disorders. Using a range of approaches has helped us to learn more about how these disorders affect a wide range of skills throughout the course of development. It is hoped that the findings from the studies in this special issue will assist efforts aimed at improving diagnostic characterization, as well as delineating targets for behavioral and educational interventions, in children with autism spectrum disorders
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Published by: Psychology Press 2nd November 2006
ISBN: 978-1-84169-818-2 (ISBN 978-1-84169-818-2)
Alcorn, A. , Bretherton, K. , Shattock, P. , Savery, D. , Mills, M. and Berney, T.
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Urinary compounds in autism journal of Intellectual Disability
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Although earlier claims to identify specific compounds in the urine of people with autism had been discredited, it was subsequently suggested that there might be biochemical characteristics that were specific to early childhood, particularly in those who also did not have a severe degree of intellectual disability This study was to establish whether autism might have a distinctive chromatographic profile on urinary analysis.
Method Thirty-four prepubertal boys with autism were matched with two groups of boys without autism – one on ability and chronological age and the other on chronological age alone, being within the normal range of ability. Laboratory analysis of their urine samples was carried out blind as to the clinical diagnosis.
Results The analysis correctly identified 53% of the autism group as against misidentifying 33% and 18% of the other two groups. When children with a severe learning disability (both with and without autism) were excluded from the comparisons, the laboratory then identified 77% of the 13 boys left in the autism group and misidentified 8% and 18% of the other two groups.
Conclusions The results would support the idea of a biological marker in prepubertal children and that it may be absent in, or obscured by the presence of severe LD.
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Alcorn, A., Bretherton, K., Shattock, P., Savery, D., Mills, M. & Berney, T (2004) Urinary compounds in autism journal of Intellectual Disability research 48, 274-8
Aspergers in love: couple relationships and family affairs
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Asperger Syndrome (AS) has often been considered to be incompatible with love and relationships, but as the number of diagnoses increases, it is becoming apparent that people with AS can and do have full and intimate relationships. Maxine Aston frankly examines the fundamental aspects of relationships that are often complicated by the disorder. Illustrated with real-life examples, the book tackles issues such as attraction, trust, communication, intimacy and parenting and includes a section on frequently asked questions, making it a must for all those with AS and their partners, as well as for friends, family and counselors.
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(2003) Aspergers in love: couple relationships and family affairs, London: Jessica Kingsley (ISBN 978-1-84310-115-4)
