Talking teenagers
Subtitle: information and inspiration for parents of teenagers with autism or Asperger's syndrome
By: Ann Boushéy.
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London; Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781843108443
Subjects: Autism in adolescence; Asperger's syndrome in adolescence; Parents of autistic children
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A parent's heartache, ever present?; title: Nugget #1: HFA or ASA, what's the diff??; title: What do I tell people about autism?; title: Nugget #2: Dealing with the good intentions of others?; title: IEPs and those elusive goals?; title: Nugget #3: Autism and gray; title: Charting growth?; title: Nugget #4: Living with fear!; title: Understanding Jon's way of understanding or, lost in translation is not just a movie title?; title: Nugget #5: Sometimes it's all Greek to me!; title: What to take on vacation?; title: Nugget #6: On perseveration : stop beating that dead horse!; title: What about anger? : just because your child as a disability, doesn't make you a floor mat?; title: Nugget # 7: I love you, but we are not connected at the hip!; title: Straight talk for parents : we need to be like the energizer bunny, we must keep going and going, and?; title: Nugget #8: Birthday parties-so simple, yet so impossible; title: An interview with the school counselor?; title: Nugget #9: Is there a lesson in these socks?; title: A bully by any other name is still a bully?; title: Nugget # 0: Parents and sanity 101?; title: An interview with an autism expert, Dr. B.J. Freeman; title: Nugget #11: Literally speaking?; title: Choosing your battles?; title: Nugget #12: Get off my back! please?; title: An interview with a parent expert, Emily Pearl Kingsley; title: Nugget #13: Stopping to note the successes?; title: Planning for our own demise : an interview with an attorney; title: Nugget #14: Changing my view?; title: Resources-re-mix?; title: Nugget #15: We must see differently!; title: Explaining differences to our teens?; title: Nugget #16: Thoughts on normal?; title: A case for empathy?; title: Nugget #17: But do I have to fix him?; title: The s-e-x word meets the a-u-t-i-s-m word; title: Nugget #18: Waiting for the other shoe to drop ...; title: Charting behaviors?; title: Nugget #19: Three steps forward, one step back : not the latest dance craze; title: Family members and autism : the good, the bad, and the ugly?; title: Nugget #20: Finding hope at the library?; title: Autism and religion?; title: Nugget #21: Angels by my side?; title: Shadow dancing?; title: Nugget #22: Serendipity-the sauce for those nuggets!