Oct. 4, 2005 - Book Recommendation: Freaks, Geeks and Asperger Syndrome
This book was written by a 13 year old boy with Autism. His name is Luke Jackson. Tony Atwood did the foreword of this book. I have to say that as a parent of an autistic dd, I have learned so much from this boy than I have of other professionals who wrote books about Autism. He was very frank about Autism. Every parent of an ASD (Autistic/Autism Spectrum Disorders) child should read this book. He discusses everything from his family to whether to tell your child about ASD to sensory to dating and so on. I laughed and I cried when reading this book. I highly recommend this book especially if you have a child with ASD. Luke Jackson also hopes all professionals who diagnose kids with ASD to read this book too. He also wants teachers to read this book. I agree with Luke on this. Tony Atwood agrees too according to his Foreword.
The link to the book is below.
Holly
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Sep. 30, 2005 - Sign Language
We are going to be teaching our autistic dd sign language so she can communicate to us on her really bad days. When she has a bad day she refuses to talk or in other words become non-verbal. We have decided we are going to teach her signs. I am looking for good sign language books especially those that have Christian signs in them such as Jesus, God, Bible and so on. Right now she knows: No, Yes, and stop. ha ha
If you have a really good resource to recommend to me feel free to leave me a comment.
Thanks!!
Holly
