Autism and Asperger's syndrome
Autism and Asperger's syndrome are both part of a range of disorders where a person has problems relating to, and communicating with, people around them. Autism and Asperger's syndrome belong to a group of conditions known as autistic spectrum ... [... more]
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Karen Siff Exkorn
The Autism Sourcebook was featured on ABC's Good Morning America. The Herald Tribune: Autism Book Offers Hard-Earned Advice Autism Speaks: Autism Sourcebook' Empowers Parents The Autism Sourcebook-No good autism book?... [... more]
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Lynn M. Hamilton
Lynn M. Hamilton and her husband, Roger, are the parents of two young children, Ryan and Victoria. Ryan was diagnosed with autism shortly before his third birthday, and as a result of intensive Applied Behavior Analysis therapy and his parents' ... [... more]
Random House |
Diane Kennedy
A Step Toward More Accurate Diagnoses and Effective Treatments At last, long-awaited answers to the questions you've been asking. Help for frustrated ADHD patients and their families. (As well as those with autism, PDD, Asperger's syndrome, and ... [... more]
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Nancy Wiseman
The number of children affected by autism-an umbrella term for a wide spectrum of disorders that includes "classic" autism, Asperger's Syndrome, and Rett Syndrome-is growing every year. Most children are not diagnosed until they start school. [... more]
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Karyn Seroussi
When their nineteen-month-old son, Miles, was diagnosed with autism, Karyn Seroussi, a writer, and her husband, a scientist, fought back with the only weapons at their disposal: love and research. Consulting medical papers, surfacing the Web, and ... [... more]
Random House |
Dawn Prince-Hughes, Ph.D.
In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces... click for more> In this elegant and thought-provoking memoir, Dawn Prince-Hughes traces her personal growth from undiagnosed autism to the moment, as a young woman, when ... [... more]
Random House |
Kenneth Bock
Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies Autism is an epidemic: It has spiked 1,500 percent in the last twenty years. ADHD, asthma and allergies have also skyrocketed over the same time period. One of these ... [... more]
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Temple Grandin
Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism because she is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and experiences ... [... more]
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What are the problems?
People with autism find it hard to make sense of the world, which appears as a chaotic maelstrom, that has no clear boundaries, order or meaning. Autism is a lifelong neuro-developmental disability that affects the way a person communicates, and ... [... more]
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Autistic spectrum disorder
Autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) is a condition that affects how the brain functions. It affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people. It also affects how they make sense of the world around them. A person who has autism ... [... more]
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