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0393357791 
Paperback 
Year: 2020
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton and Company
Resource type: Physical
Note: Published outside the British Isles In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as compassionate and devoted, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he offered care to children he deemed promising, he prescribed harsh institutionalisation and even transfer to one of the Reich's killing centres, for children with greater disabilities. With sensitivity and passion, Edith Sheffer reveals the heart-breaking voices and experiences of many of these children, whilst illuminating a Nazi regime obsessed with sorting the population into categories, cataloguing people by race, heredity, politics, religion, sexuality, criminality and biological defects-labels that became the basis of either rehabilitation or persecution and extermination. Tertiary
320 pages, illustrations ; 22 cm (pbk)
0747579105 
Hardback
Year: 2006
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Resource type: Physical
Note: This title is a remarkably, elegantly written portrait of five autistic men and women, and what their struggles and triumphs reveal about this baffling condition and about us all.
hbk
1787752941 
Paperback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Interest category: Parenting
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: This text looks at what it feels like to be an autistic parent, offering valuable insights, knowledge, and wisdom on parenting autistic and non-autistic children. Three mothers reflect on their experiences of growing up as undiagnosed autistics, venturing into and embracing motherhood, and connecting with their children in a unique and powerful way. They offer advice on overcoming the challenges of parenting when you are autistic, such as socialising with other parents or sensory issues that come with excessive touch. General adult
208 pages ; 22 cm (pbk)
1849053340 
Hardback 
Year: 2012
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Hardback
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Resource type: Physical
Note: This text shows neurotypicals how Aspies see and experience the world. Each page brings to light traits that many Aspies have in common, from sensitive hearing and an aversion to bright lights and strong smells, to literal thinking and difficulty understanding social rules and reading body language and facial expressions. General adult
72 p., col. ill. ; 21 cm (hbk)
1849054126 
Paperback
Year: 2013
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Resource type: Physical
Note: Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders are often not instinctive and intuitive in expressing their liking or love for someone, or their understanding that family members and friends need affection. This book addresses the difficulty in practical terms, providing a carefully constructed way in which parents can help their child to develop their understanding and ability. General adult
240 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm (pbk)
1788164024 
Paperback
Year: 2019
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Souvenir Press
Resource type: Physical
Note: Autism spectrum disorder is among the most commonly diagnosed developmental disabilities, affecting 1% of the population. Based on 40 years of practical experience with schools, hospitals, families and academic study, Dr Barry M. Prizant's revolutionary approach is to understand autism not as a disability but as a unique way of being human. Here, with a wealth of inspiring stories and practical advice, he shows how by understanding autistic behaviours as responses based on an individual's experiences, we can enhance that individual's abilities, teach skills and build coping strategies to help them enjoy a better quality of life. General adult
x, 256 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
0241409608 
Hardback
Year: 2020
Language: English
Interest category: Health
Media class: Hardback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Viking
Resource type: Physical
Note: Published outside the British Isles Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science. Through a set of scientific principles, this book examines life's everyday interactions including: decisions and the route we take to make them; conflict and how we can avoid it; relationships and how we establish them; etiquette and how we conform to it. General adult
xiv, 239 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm (hbk)
1409176282 
Paperback
Year: 2018
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Orion Spring
Resource type: Physical
Note: For every child diagnosed with autism, there are usually two worried parents who may not have a clue about the condition or how best to help their little one. Jessie Hewitson's son was two-years old when he was diagnosed with autism. Like many other worried parents before her, Jessie's immediate instinct was to learn everything she could about the condition and how best to support her child. But when The Times award-winning journalist embarked on her own investigative process, she soon uncovered a cloud of conflicting, panic-inducing information. She realised that advice from unsafe corners of the Internet, strangers and even well-meaning friends can make you feel overwhelmed, vulnerable and disheartened. She decided to write this book to provide other parents in similar situations with a wealth of practical and reliable support, all in one place. General adult
xv, 286 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm (pbk)
1843106698 
Paperback
Year: 2008
Language: English
Interest category: Health & welfare
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley
Resource type: Physical
Note: Tony Attwood offers an accessible and authoritative account of all aspects of Asperger's syndrome, from childhood through to adulthood. General adult
397 p. ; 25 cm (pbk)
0241987113 
Paperback
Year: 2021
Language: English
Interest category: Health
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Bibliography
Publisher: Penguin Books
Resource type: Physical
Note: Diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder at the age of eight, Camilla Pang struggled to understand the world around her and the way people worked. Desperate for a solution, Camilla asked her mother if there was an instruction manual for humans that she could consult. But, without the blueprint to life she was hoping for, Camilla began to create her own. Now armed with a PhD in biochemistry, Camilla dismantles our obscure social customs and identifies what it really means to be human using her unique expertise and a language she knows best: science. Through a set of scientific principles, this book examines life's everyday interactions including: decisions and the route we take to make them; conflict and how we can avoid it; relationships and how we establish them; etiquette and how we conform to it. General adult
256 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)