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Eating an Artichoke: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome de Echo R. Fling

Eating an Artichoke: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome

Autor Echo R. Fling Tony Attwood
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 ian 2000
For five years, Echo Fling accompanied her son Jimmy to doctors, medical specialists, learning consultants and psychologists. Aged ten, Jimmy was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. This is the book that Echo needed when she first set out to have Jimmy diagnosed, and it will enable parents and teachers to understand and help other children with AS.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781853027116
ISBN-10: 1853027111
Pagini: 207
Dimensiuni: 166 x 233 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Echo R. Fling is director of Communications in the Office of Marketing and College Relations at Thomas Edison State College. Prior to joining the College, she was President and a founding board member of ASC-US (Asperger Syndrome Coalition of the United States, Inc.). She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. Echo is a twenty-year veteran journalist, having worked in both the print and broadcast genres, and has taken extensive leave from her writing career to advocate for AS awareness. Her son Jimmy was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 1996.

Descriere

At the age of ten, Jimmy was diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. Written in the first person, this book tells Jimmy's story from his mother's point of view. As well as charting Jiimmy's development from infancy to preadolescence, Fling provides practical advice for parents of children with Asperger's Syndrome evolved from her own experience and gleaned from conferences she attended.

Cuprins

Foreword, by Tony Attwood. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. There's Something Wrong with Your Son. 2. Looking Back. 3. Now What Do We Do? 4. Back to Basics. 5. Kitchen Classroom. 6. Reality Check. 7. Away at School. 8. Just a Lonely Boy. 9. Drugs? 10. Out to Lunch. 11. Light at the End of the Tunnel. 12. The Heart of my Artichoke. 13. Cha... Cha... Cha... Changes. 14. Making Sense of the Sensory. 15. Holla-daze. 16. Of Things Motoric. 17. My Girly. 18. Finding His Passion - and Beyond. Resources.