Uniquely human
Subtitle: a different way of seeing autism
By: Barry M. Prizant, PhD ; with Tom Fields-Meyer
Contributors: Fields-Meyer, Thomas, author
Edition: First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781476776231
Subjects: Autism; Autism in children
Description: Autism is usually portrayed as a checklist of deficits, including difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. This perspective leads to therapies focused on ridding individuals of "autistic" symptoms. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant, an internationally renowned autism expert, offers a new and compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism don't aim at fixing a person by eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individual's experience and what underlies the behavior.
Notes: "Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.