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Author
Publisher
Harper Wave, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Clinician, researcher, and professor Lynn Kern Koegel, PhD, and writer Claire LaZebnik explore the ways in which the intelligence and abilities of children and young adults with autism are often overlooked and misjudged, and share interventions to bring out their full potential"--
Author
Publisher
The MIT Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In spite of widespread assumptions that young people on the autism spectrum have a “natural” attraction to technology—a premise that leads to significant speculation about how media helps or harms them—relatively little research actually exists about their everyday tech use. In Kids Across the Spectrums, Meryl Alper fills this gap with the first book-length ethnography of the digital lives of autistic young people. Based on research with...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Alex knows that starting middle school will be a big change, and for an autistic person, change can be terrifying. He is sure that having a friend by his side will help. But how can he make one? Alex devises a plan to impress the kids at school by winning a trophy at the PAWS Dog Show with his trusty sidekick, Kevin the cockapoo. This should be a walk in the park, right? If only. It turns out that finding a friend is harder than Alex...
Author
Publisher
Parenting Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
What if parenting were an act of social justice? In this part story-telling, part self-inquiry book, authors and therapists Jaya Ramesh and Priya Saaral situate parenting children of color with neurodivergence within the context of various interlocking systems of oppression including settler colonialism, White supremacy, ableism, and capitalism. These intersections engender isolation and loneliness. Using the voices of parents on the front lines and...
8) The infinite
Author
Series
Leap cycle volume 1
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Leaplings, children born on the 29th of February, are very rare. Rarer still are Leaplings with The Gift - the ability to leap through time. Elle has The Gift, but she's never used it. Until now. On her 12th birthday, Elle and her best friend Big Ben travel to the Time Squad Centre in 2048. Elle has received a mysterious warning from the future. Other Leaplings are disappearing in time - and not everyone at the centre can be trusted. Soon Elle's...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"The concept of the intact mind, first described in a 2006 memoir, refers to the idea that inside every autistic child is an intelligent, typical child waiting to be liberated by the right diet, the right treatment intervention, the right combination of supports and accommodations. The sentiment itself is not new. Emerging largely out of psychoanalytic theory dating back to the end of the 19th century, the intact mind was later amplified in memoirs,...
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Description
"We are all amazing because we are all different. Abby, Elmo, and the Sesame Street friends introduce young readers to Julia. Full-color photos and accessible text make this book an age-appropriate introduction to autism"--
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