Autism adulthood : strategies and insights for a fulfilling life / Susan Senator.
"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. Told in Senator’s trademark warm, honest, and approachable style, Autism Adulthood paints a vivid and thought-provoking picture of many people grappling with grown-up, real-life autism. Senator’s is the only book of its kind, as real families share their stories and their creative solutions,"--Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781510704237
- ISBN: 151070423X
- Physical Description: xxix, 280 pages ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part I: Constructing Autism Adulthood -- Introduction: Beginning at the End -- Chapter One: Post Twenty-Two Planning: Facing Transition -- Chapter Two: If You Want Something Better, Create It!: Employment and Job Training -- Chapter Three: Home Isn't Built in a Day -- Chapter Four: Staffing and Turning to Others -- Part II: Deconstructing Autism Adulthood -- Chapter Five: Helping Your Guy Find His Way: Acquiring Life Skills -- Chapter Six: The Struggles of Apparently High-Functioning -- Chapter Seven: Autistic Adults with Communication or Apparent Cognitive Challenges -- Chapter Eight: Am I My Brother's Keeper? -- Chapter Nine: Autism Adulthood Health and Safety Issues -- Chapter Ten: I Can Never Die, and Other Myths. |
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Subject: | Autism. Autism spectrum disorders. |
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- Perseus Publishing
One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is looming adulthood and all that it entails. In her new book Susan Senator takes the mystery out of adult life on the autism spectrum and conveys the positive message that even though autism adulthood is complicated and challenging, there are many ways to make it manageable and enjoyable. From her own son with autism, now twenty-five, she has learned ânever say never.â
Autism Adulthood features thirty interviews with autistic adults, their parents, caregivers, researchers, and professionals. Each vignette reveals firsthand a familyâs challenge, their circumstances, their thought processes, and their unique solutions, and plans of action. Sharing the wisdom that emerges from parentsâ and self-advocatesâ experiences, Senator adds her own observations and conclusions based on her long-term experience with autism. Told in Senatorâs trademark warm, honest, and approachable style, Autism Adulthood paints a vivid and thought-provoking picture of many people grappling with grown-up, real-life autism. Senatorâs is the only book of its kind, as real families share their stories and their creative solutions. - Simon and Schuster
One of the biggest fears of parents with children with autism is looming adulthood and all that it entails. In her new book Susan Senator takes the mystery out of adult life on the autism spectrum and conveys the positive message that even though autism adulthood is complicated and challenging, there are many ways to make it manageable and enjoyable. From her own son with autism, now twenty-five, she has learned ânever say never."
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. Told in Senator's trademark warm, honest, and approachable style, Autism Adulthood paints a vivid and thought-provoking picture of many people grappling with grown-up, real-life autism. Senator's is the only book of its kind, as real families share their stories and their creative solutions.