The Autism Detective
The Autism Detective

Author: Elaine Brownless

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2021-05-21

Total Pages: 48

ISBN-13: 1787753050

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"Dear Kit and Scully, your mission is to learn about autism. On this quest you will need to investigate the human brain and learn about diversity." What do you know about autism? Whether you know a little or a lot, you are invited to explore your understanding of the autism spectrum and discover something new by joining detectives Scully and Kit on their investigation. As Scully and Kit interview six ordinary children, follow the clues and see if you can guess which of them are autistic. This book puts the spotlight on six children that openly talk about their experiences at school and at home. By the end of the book, two children reveal what autism means to them. Read this alone or with an adult and learn about autism, diversity, how we are all unique and what we all share.

Imagining Autism
Imagining Autism

Author: Sonya Freeman Loftis

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0253018137

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A disorder that is only just beginning to find a place in disability studies and activism, autism remains in large part a mystery, giving rise to both fear and fascination. Sonya Freeman Loftis's groundbreaking study examines literary representations of autism or autistic behavior to discover what impact they have had on cultural stereotypes, autistic culture, and the identity politics of autism. Imagining Autism looks at fictional characters (and an author or two) widely understood as autistic, ranging from Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes and Harper Lee's Boo Radley to Mark Haddon's boy detective Christopher Boone and Steig Larsson's Lisbeth Salander. The silent figure trapped inside himself, the savant made famous by his other-worldly intellect, the brilliant detective linked to the criminal mastermind by their common neurology—these characters become protean symbols, stand-ins for the chaotic forces of inspiration, contagion, and disorder. They are also part of the imagined lives of the autistic, argues Loftis, sometimes for good, sometimes threatening to undermine self-identity and the activism of the autistic community.

Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder
Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder

Author: Karyn Seroussi

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2014-10-14

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1439142629

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Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Development Disorder is an essential guide for parents with autistic children who hope to better understand and intervene with the disorder. When their nineteen-month-old son, Miles, was diagnosed with autism, Karyn Seroussi, a writer, and her husband, a scientist, fought back with the only weapons at their disposal: love and research. Consulting medical papers, surfing the Web, and networking with other parents, they traced the onset of their child's problems to an immune system breakdown that coincided with his vaccinations. As a result, his digestive system was unable to break down certain proteins, which in turn led to abnormal brain development. So Karyn and her husband got to work -- Karyn implementing their program at home while her husband tested his theories at the scientific lab where he worked. Unraveling the Mystery of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorder is an inspiring and suspenseful chronicle of how one couple empowered themselves to challenge the medical establishment that promised no hope -- and found a cure for their child. Here are the explanations and treatments they so carefully researched and discovered, a wealth of crucial tools and hands-on information that can help other parents reverse the effects of autism and PDD, including step-by-step instructions for the removal of dairy and gluten from the diet, special recipes, and an explanation of the roles of the key players in autism research.

AutPlay Therapy for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum
AutPlay Therapy for Children and Adolescents on the Autism Spectrum

Author: Robert Jason Grant

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-23

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1317328795

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AutPlay Therapy is a behavioral play-based treatment approach to working with children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities. This innovative new model contains a parent-training component (wherein the therapist trains parents to do directive play therapy interventions in the home) and can be utilized in any setting where children and adolescents with an autism disorder, ADHD, dysregulation issues, or other neurodevelopmental disorders are treated. This comprehensive resource outlines the AutPlay Therapy process and offers a breakdown of treatment phases along with numerous assessment materials and over 30 directive play therapy techniques.

Visual Support for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Visual Support for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Author: Vera Bernard-Opitz

Publisher: AAPC Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9781934575826

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Combining their years of experience working with individuals on the autism spectrum, the authors bring practical ideas and teaching methods for offering visual supports to students with autism spectrum disorders.

Diary of a Social Detective
Diary of a Social Detective

Author: Jeffrey E. Jessum

Publisher: AAPC Publishing

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9781934575710

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Real-Life Tales of Mystery, Intrigue and Interpersonal Adventure Detective agencies come in many shapes and forms, but never before has there been a one-man social detective agency Johnny Multony, transformed from a social misfit to a socially savvy kid, starts the first-ever social detective agency. He is then hired by other students in his school for help with common interpersonal dilemmas, such as cliques, dealing with disappointments, bullying, personal space, friends, body language, and much more.

The Ice-Cream Sundae Guide to Autism
The Ice-Cream Sundae Guide to Autism

Author: Debby Elley

Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Published: 2020-06-18

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 1787753816

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Autism is a bit like an ice-cream sundae. There are lots of ingredients that go into it. There are so many types of sundae glasses out there. Some are plain and simple, some are loud and proud! In fact, sundae glasses are a bit like people - we're all different. Because we all have different personalities, autism doesn't look the same in everybody. This picture-led book uses ice-cream sundae ingredients to represent various aspects of autism such as sensory differences, special interests or rigidity of thinking, explaining the different facets of autism in a neutral way. The reader can create their own individual 'ice-cream sundae' to illustrate their personal strengths and challenges, highlighting how it makes them unique and helping to build confidence and self-awareness. It includes colourful illustrations and workbook activities to help children cement their understanding of autism.

The Disabled Detective
The Disabled Detective

Author: Susannah B. Mintz

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1474238238

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The first book of its kind, The Disabled Detective explores representations of disability in crime fiction, from the earliest days of the genre to contemporary television drama. Susannah B. Mintz examines detective heroes with such conditions as blindness, deafness, paralysis, Asperger's, obsessive compulsive disorder, addiction, war trauma and many other impairments. Examining a wide range of texts, from Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and the works of Agatha Christie to contemporary crime writers such as Jeffrey Deaver and Michael Collins and television dramas such as Monk, this book highlights how often characters with disabilities have been the heroes of crime fiction and how rarely this has been discussed in contemporary criticism.

The Millennial Detective
The Millennial Detective

Author: Malcah Effron

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2011-10-10

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0786486821

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International in scope and varied in its theoretical approaches, this collection of ten new critical essays examines the prevailing trends in recent crime fiction. Of particular interest are shifting, and increasingly globalized, conceptions of crime, as well as the genre's response to technological, legal, and social changes at the end of the 20th century. Employing critical tools new to crime-fiction studies, the essays also gesture toward a future for genre scholarship.