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Category: Parenting
This book tells how parents can appreciate their autistic children and prevent them from being pathologized, over-medicated, and marginalized. In this groundbreaking book, William Stillman, an expert and passionate advocate of Autism Spectrum Disorders, offers a commonsense guide for parenting autistic
This book tells how parents can appreciate their autistic children and prevent them from being pathologized, over-medicated, and marginalized. In this groundbreaking book, William Stillman, an expert and passionate advocate of Autism Spectrum Disorders, offers a commonsense guide for parenting autistic children. He gives mothers and fathers, caregivers, and teachers the information they need to recognize an autistic child's unique personality, passions, and intellect and therefore liberate them from today's culture of fear. He shows why the current conventional incentive and reward systems send the wrong message to autistic kids and just don't work. This book offers a sensible ten-step guide for enriching relationships with autistic kids through a belief in their essential competence; includes information that liberates parents from the culture of fear surrounding autism; explains how kids with autism are intelligent but may have unconventional methods of communication that need to be understood and appreciated; and, shows why your child doesn't need traditional therapy or medication to 'treat' autism.
This book is written by an acclaimed expert on the topic of autism, who is himself an adult with Asperger's Syndrome. This is a comprehensive guide for taking a year off between high school and college. This is a groundbreaking book for the 45,000 students every year who want to get a better college education by taking a year off between high school and college. This new strategy is recommended and supported by top level Ivy League and division-one universities. The book contains criteria and self-quizzes to determine if you should take a gap year, offers ideas for activities to pursue, includes listing of a wide-variety of programs, shows the developmental, psychological, and educational benefit of the gap year. The book also includes case studies from a diverse range of students and their families. This is a comprehensive guide for those applying to or already admitted to college, post grad private and high school athletes seeking a better chance for college.
It includes a wealth of self-assessments, suggestions, and ideas for kids just wanting to take a break and gain some experience and maturity, and contains recommendations for a variety of economical work/study, national service or working abroad study and adventure programs. It is filled with case studies from a diverse group of students and their families.
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