Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome Or Non-verbal Learning Disability

Employment for Individuals with Asperger Syndrome Or Non-verbal Learning Disability

Author: Yvona Fast

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9781843107668

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Most people with Non-Verbal Learning Disorder or AS are underemployed. This book sets out to change this. With practical advice on everything from job hunting to interview techniques, from 'fitting in' in the workplace to whether or not to disclose a diagnosis, this book guides people with NLD or AS successfully through the employment mine field.


A Special Kind of Brain

A Special Kind of Brain

Author: Nancy Burger

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2004-06-15

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1846424429

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Sharing the experience of bringing up a child with nonverbal learning disability (NLD), this warm and accessible book offers advice on subjects ranging across diagnosis and therapy, children's interaction with each other, suitable activities for a child with NLD and how to discuss NLD with children. An essential guide, this book will reassure, advise and inform parents and professionals who work with children with NLD.


I Am Not Stupid

I Am Not Stupid

Author: Amy Temple

Publisher:

Published: 2017-05

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781521199312

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There have been so many myths about learning disabilities, and that is why I felt compelled to write this book. I've personally have had to deal with these myths. I've had people tell me to my face that I won't amount to much. That's made me angry at times. But guess what? I'm doing what I've always wanted to do...which is writing. Have you ever wondered what's it's like living with a learning disability? Or maybe you know how it feels when other people don't think you'll amount to much. This is Amy's story, and you'll see that people with a learning disability have hopes, dreams, fears, and emotions just like everyone else.


NLD from the Inside Out

NLD from the Inside Out

Author: Michael Brian Murphy

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2016-06-21

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1784502138

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Written by and for teens and young adults with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities (NLD), as well as for their parents, teachers, therapists, and others who care about them, and backed by the latest neuropsychological research, NLD from the Inside Out offers hundreds of useful tips on: - Organization and planning, including study skills - How to successfully navigate the transition from dependent child to independent adult - Creating more harmonious family and peer relationships - Changing disabling attitudes. The book will help teens and young adults to avoid the angst and pitfalls often associated with NLD. More than that, it offers real stories from now-thriving young adults who grew up with NLD - proof that a full and rewarding life lies ahead for those who are now struggling.


A Different Life

A Different Life

Author: Quinn Bradlee

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2010-03-02

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0786741406

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Ten percent of the population is affected by a learning disability, but few of us understand what being learning disabled (LD) is really like. When he was fourteen, Bradlee was diagnosed with Velo-Cardio-Facial-Syndrome (VCFS), a wide-spread, little-understood disorder that is expressed through a wide range of physical ailments and learning disabilities. In this funny, moving, and often irreverent book, Bradlee tells his own inspirational story of growing up as an LD kid -- and of doing so as the child of larger-than-life, formidably accomplished parents: long-time Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee and bestselling author Sally Quinn. From his difficulties reading social cues, to his cringe-worthy loss of sexual innocence, Bradlee describes the challenges and joys of living "a different life" with disarming candor and humor. By the end of A Different Life he will have become, if not your best friend, one of your favorite people.


I'm Not a Stupid

I'm Not a Stupid

Author: Deepti Priya

Publisher: Educreation Publishing

Published: 2017-04-20

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13:

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Enable every child to realize their full potential. Our societies in India have developed in terms of technology and techniques, yet the awareness about learning disability has been a short in a mass. With this book, Author is trying to make an attempt in bringing awareness about the struggles of a child with learning disability, also covering aspects with which struggles can be minimized. Author tried to cover most of the aspects of the subject in the form of story, pictures and with minimal literature. In simple words and through charts, author has also touched upon procedure for assessment, diagnosis and intervention plans. When we recognize and accept the condition, we can also manage it much better and minimize associated struggles. The book covers a story of an imaginary child named “Vidyuman” who is Living with Learning Disability, his daily struggles, emotions, and when he got support - how easily he could manage his conditions and could perform well scholastically. With the story of Vidyuman author also tried to cover - what is learning disability, what are the symptoms, how we can understand, support children with learning disabilities. Readers of this book, (even with very small attention span) can get a good enough information on learning disability, what to do when they come across such a child. Our failure to understand different abilities and associated learning difficulties makes our child feel handicapped. Let’s create a beautiful world for our children and let them flourish to the fullest.


Blindsight

Blindsight

Author: Peter Watts

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2006-10-03

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1429955198

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Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.


Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

Nonverbal Learning Disabilities

Author: Cesare Cornoldi

Publisher: Guilford Publications

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1462527590

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Increasing numbers of children and adolescents are being diagnosed with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD), yet clinicians and educators have few scientific resources to guide assessment and intervention. This book presents up-to-date knowledge on the nature of NLD and how to differentiate it from DSM-5 disorders such as autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder. Effective strategies for helping K-12 students and their families address the challenges of NLD in and outside of the classroom are illustrated with vivid case material. The authors thoughtfully consider controversies surrounding NLD, discuss why the diagnosis is not included in the current DSM and ICD classification systems, and identify important directions for future research.


Ask a Manager

Ask a Manager

Author: Alison Green

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0399181822

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together