Asperger's/Asd: Making Life Easier, Safer, Better (eBook)

(A Parent's Roadmap to Sanity)

Anna Marie Brown, Jenny Bastet Brown, Anton M Swenson (Autoren)

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2013 | 1. Auflage
164 Seiten
Backyard Habitat Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-9889923-0-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Asperger's/ASD is a combined narrative, toolkit, and resourse guide for parents of those on the Autism Spectrum, as well as caregivers. It is a detailed narrative of one family's struggle to get a clear diagnosis for their son, and the long road to a step-by-step plan to gain control of all the medical & psychological problems they struggled with.

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This book, Asperger's/ASD: Making Life Easier, Safer, Better(A Parent's Roadmap to Sanity), is a narrative, a handbook, and atoolkit all rolled into one. As a narrative it details the personal historyof one family's struggle with their son's Asperger's. As a handbook itaddresses the whole set of problems that come with Asperger's/ASD. Andas a toolkit it better equips you to confront these problems, so they areeasier to visualize and break down into manageable pieces. With this book you will:Gain a clearer understanding of the subtleties of Asperger'sSyndrome, with special attention paid to the more difficult toidentify co-occurring problems. Learn about disability insurance and supplemental incomeprograms, and how to access them for your child. Understand why you need to develop an Individual Education Planfor your child. Address your child's future (home, work, relationships, self-care, andindependence). Be able to set up your care community person by person, specialtyby specialty, until all issues are addressed. Make life within the home less painful physically, financially, andemotionally. The unique layout of this book is practical, useful, and easy to reference. It is written with unsparing honesty and bright flashes of humor andempathy by a father who learned about Asperger's the hard way-throughtrial and error. With emphasis throughout placed on early intervention and treatment,"e;dividing and conquering,"e; and parental involvement, as well as anexcellent Resources and Further Reading section to guide your additionalresearch, Asperger's/ASD: Making Life Easier, Safer, Better(A Parent's Roadmap to Sanity), is a book you'll come back to againand again throughout your child's development. (Teachers, counselors, andhealthcare and social services specialists will find it useful, too.)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2013
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Allgemeinmedizin
• ISBN-10: 0-9889923-0-2 / 0988992302
• ISBN-13: 978-0-9889923-0-6 / 9780988992306