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Temple Grandin draws on her own experience to deliver an essential guidebook for guiding and nurturing autistic youth. She gets to the REAL issues of autistic adolescents-the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day.
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In these helpful pages, Dr. Grandin offers do's and don'ts, practical strategies, and try-it-now tips, all based on her insider perspective and extensive research. Interestingly, she argues...
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The host of titular podcast offers over sixty ideas to boost creativity, achieve fitness goals, increase productivity, improve relationships and more.
Change isn't always easy, but you can do it!
Packed with powerful ideas for improving your life in all areas, including fitness, food, mindfulness, relationships, networking and more, this book shows how to create lasting habits by first succeeding at a thirty-day challenge.
Author Rosanna Casper...
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A father and son's life-changing journey through Autism, adolescence and Africa. Inspiring, entertaining and a beacon of hope for those touched by autism.
Life with a teenage boy on the autism spectrum has its challenges. Fourteen-year-old Sam is a world authority on Harry Potter but can't get to the corner store on his own.
Sam's parents Dr James Best and Benison O'Reilly decide to think radically to help their son. They sell the family home to...
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Master the journey from adolescence to independence in just a few steps, even if societal stereotypes and misunderstandings have made it feel impossible.
Are you a teenager with autism seeking reassurance and support as you navigate the turbulent waters of adolescence? Are you a parent wanting to better understand your teen's experience and provide the guidance they need? You're not alone
Here's just a glimpse of what you'll uncover inside:
• Learn...
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Award-winning educator Walter Kaweski offers secondary teachers practical strategies and heartfelt insights based on his extensive experience as an autism specialist, inclusion coordinator, and father of a son with Asperger syndrome. Students with special needs often require extra support as they adjust to middle and high school and the changes that accompany adolescence. Without support, this time can be overwhelming. Teaching Adolescents with Autism...
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When designing spaces for individuals with Autism, there are specific design strategies that can be employed to create optimal spaces that can have a positive impact on special learning and sensory needs. Interior Design for Autism from Childhood to Adolescence gives designers the exact information they need to implement these design strategies in their own projects. Projects covered relate specifically to the age ranges from childhood through adolescence,...
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The only evidence-based program available for teaching social skills to adolescents with autism spectrum disorders.
Two nationally known experts in friendship formation and anxiety management address the social challenges faced by adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The book helps educators instruct youth on conversing with others, displaying appropriate body language, managing anxiety, initiating and participating in get-togethers,...
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American Academy of Pediatrics
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"This guide helps parents understand how ASDs are defined and diagnosed and offers an overview of the most current behavioral and developmental therapies. Topics include: symptoms and types of ASDs, accessing care, services in the community, and the role of complementary and alternative medicine. Parents will also find inspirational and relatable stories from other caretakers."--Amazon.com.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
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2015.
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English
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In Adolescent Depression, psychiatrists Francis Mark Mondimore, MD, and Patrick Kelly, MD, explain that serious depression in adolescents goes beyond "moodiness." Depression is in fact an illness - one that can be effectively treated. The authors describe the many forms of depression and the many symptoms of depression in young people - from sadness to irritability, self-harm, drug and alcohol abuse, and violent rages.
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Routledge
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Long thought of as a primarily "male" disorder, girls with autism have long gone unidentified, unnoticed, unheard and unsupported - sometimes with devastating social and mental health consequences. As current research reveals a much more balanced male:female ratio in autism, this book provides crucial insight into girls' experiences, helping professionals to recognise, understand, support and teach girls with autism effectively. Drawing on the latest...
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Viking
Pub. Date
2009
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English
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A renowned autism expert collaborates with a parent of an autistic teenager in this guide to helping teens with autism. Addressing issues from a changing body to how to succeed in college, this inspiring volume offers hope and wisdom for parents, therapists, and educators.
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Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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Being a teen or tween is tough for anyone. And if you're on the Autism Spectrum, life can feel like a game you're playing without knowing the rules. Jennifer Cook knows - she's been there! Her internationally bestselling handbook is the key to unlocking those unwritten, often confusing, not-so-obvious social guidelines and bolstering confidence, all at once. Finally, teens can play the game of life with instructions. The 10th Anniversary Edition of...
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Hannah Sharpe volume 1
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Hannah Sharpe, an eleven-year-old cartoonist with Autism spectrum disorder, uses her curiosity, creativity, and amazing memory to investigate her family's newest Airbnb resident.
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Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"Critical Thinking about Psychotherapy Stephen Hupp, Jean Mercer, Bruce Thyer, and Monica Pignotti We'll give you the good news first - multiple evidence-based treatments (EBTs) have been identified for most psychological challenges that children and adolescents face. The Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, also known as Division 53 of the American Psychological Association, has been at the forefront of identifying EBTs for youth...
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