Eating an Artichoke : A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome.
Fling, Echo R.
Eating an Artichoke : A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
COVER -- Eating an Artichoke: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Acknowledgements -- 1 There's Something Wrong With Your Son -- 2 Looking Back -- 3 Now, What do We Do? -- 4 Back to Basics -- 5 Kitchen Classroom -- 6 Reality Check -- 7 Away at School -- 8 Just a Lonely Boy -- 9 Drugs? -- 10 Out to Lunch -- 11 Light at the End of the Tunnel -- 12 The Heart of My Artichoke -- 13 Ch…Ch… Cha… Changes -- 14 Making Sense of the Sensory -- 15 Holla-daze -- 16 Of Things Motoric -- 17 My Girly -- 18 Finding His Passion - and Beyond -- AFTERWORD: The politics of it all -- REFERENCES.
For five years, Echo Fling accompanied her son Jimmy to doctors, medical specialists, learning consultants and psychologists. Aged ten, Jimmy was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. This is the book that Echo needed when she first set out to have Jimmy diagnosed, and it will enable parents and teachers to understand and help other children with AS.
9781846421815
Asperger's syndrome.
Electronic books.
RC553.A88 F58 2000
618.92/8982
Eating an Artichoke : A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages)
COVER -- Eating an Artichoke: A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Acknowledgements -- 1 There's Something Wrong With Your Son -- 2 Looking Back -- 3 Now, What do We Do? -- 4 Back to Basics -- 5 Kitchen Classroom -- 6 Reality Check -- 7 Away at School -- 8 Just a Lonely Boy -- 9 Drugs? -- 10 Out to Lunch -- 11 Light at the End of the Tunnel -- 12 The Heart of My Artichoke -- 13 Ch…Ch… Cha… Changes -- 14 Making Sense of the Sensory -- 15 Holla-daze -- 16 Of Things Motoric -- 17 My Girly -- 18 Finding His Passion - and Beyond -- AFTERWORD: The politics of it all -- REFERENCES.
For five years, Echo Fling accompanied her son Jimmy to doctors, medical specialists, learning consultants and psychologists. Aged ten, Jimmy was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. This is the book that Echo needed when she first set out to have Jimmy diagnosed, and it will enable parents and teachers to understand and help other children with AS.
9781846421815
Asperger's syndrome.
Electronic books.
RC553.A88 F58 2000
618.92/8982