Autism adulthood : strategies and insights for a fulfilling life /
Senator, Susan,
Autism adulthood : strategies and insights for a fulfilling life / Susan Senator. - xxix, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274).
Introduction: Beginning at the end -- Post twenty-two planning: Facing transition -- If you want something better, create it!: Employment and job training -- Home isn't built in a day -- Staffing and turning to others -- Helping your guy find his way: Acquiring life skills -- The struggles of apparently high-functioning autistic adults -- Autistic adults with communication or apparent cognitive challenges -- Am I my brother's keeper? -- Autism adulthood health and safety issues -- I can never die, and other myths.
Autism Adulthood features thirty interviews with autistic adults, their parents, caregivers, researchers, and professionals. Each vignette reveals firsthand a family's challenge, their circumstances, their thought processes, and their unique solutions, and plans of action. Sharing the wisdom that emerges from parents' and self-advocates' experiences, Senator adds her own observations and conclusions based on her long-term experience with autism. Autism Adulthood paints a picture of many people grappling with grown-up, real-life autism.
9781510704237 151070423X
Senator, Susan.
Autism spectrum disorders--Patients--Biography.
Autistic people--Family relationships.
Autistic people--Interviews.
Autobiographies.
Interviews.
Autism adulthood : strategies and insights for a fulfilling life / Susan Senator. - xxix, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-274).
Introduction: Beginning at the end -- Post twenty-two planning: Facing transition -- If you want something better, create it!: Employment and job training -- Home isn't built in a day -- Staffing and turning to others -- Helping your guy find his way: Acquiring life skills -- The struggles of apparently high-functioning autistic adults -- Autistic adults with communication or apparent cognitive challenges -- Am I my brother's keeper? -- Autism adulthood health and safety issues -- I can never die, and other myths.
Autism Adulthood features thirty interviews with autistic adults, their parents, caregivers, researchers, and professionals. Each vignette reveals firsthand a family's challenge, their circumstances, their thought processes, and their unique solutions, and plans of action. Sharing the wisdom that emerges from parents' and self-advocates' experiences, Senator adds her own observations and conclusions based on her long-term experience with autism. Autism Adulthood paints a picture of many people grappling with grown-up, real-life autism.
9781510704237 151070423X
Senator, Susan.
Autism spectrum disorders--Patients--Biography.
Autistic people--Family relationships.
Autistic people--Interviews.
Autobiographies.
Interviews.