Eating an Artichoke : A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781846421815
- 618.92/8982
- RC553.A88 F58 2000
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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