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Asperger's Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals by Tony Attwood
$39.00 NZD
Category: Aspergers & Autism
Tony Attwood here provides a comprehensive guide designed to assist parents and professionals with the identification and treatment of both children and adults with Asperger's syndrome. The book provides a description and analysis of the unusual characteristics of the syndrome and practical strategies ...Show more
Autism and Learning : A Guide to Good Practice by Stuart Powell
$80.00 NZD
Category: School Guidance
Autism is a complex and often puzzling disorder in which pinning down a set of rules surrounding the teaching of children with it is almost impossible to do. Many theories and approaches claim to have the solution to teaching, yet few provide the answers when an autistic child goes against the status qu ...Show more
Secrets to Success for Professionals in the Autism Field: An Insider's Guide to Understanding the Autism Spectrum, the Environment and Your Role by Gunilla Gerland
$57.00 NZD
Category: Aspergers & Autism
Writing with the insight of someone on the autism spectrum, but also as an experienced autism professional, Gunilla Gerland offers a fresh and original perspective on autism as well as a wealth of new tools and interventions to use in practice with children and adults.
The Other Half of Asperger Syndrome: A guide to living in an intimate relationship with a partner who has Asperger syndrome by Maxine C. Aston
$33.00 NZD
Category: Aspergers & Autism
Does your other half have Asperger Syndrome (AS) or do you suspect that he or she is on the autism spectrum? This quick and helpful relationships guide provides all the information you need for relationship success with your AS partner. The Other Half of Asperger Syndrome was the first book ever publish ...Show more
Autism and the Edges of the Known World: Sensitivities, Language, and Constructed Reality by Olga Bogdashina
$39.00 NZD
Category: Aspergers & Autism
Explores various theories of sensory perception and communication in autism. Drawing on linguistics, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, anthropology and quantum mechanics, this book looks at how the nature of the senses inform an individual's view of the world, and how language both reflects and cons ...Show more
Counseling People on the Autism Spectrum: A Practical Manual by Katherine Paxton; Irene A. Estay
$45.00 NZD
Category: Counselling
The characteristics of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) present unique challenges, not only to people themselves affected, but also to counselling professionals. This manual provides counselling techniques that work not only for professionals, but also for individuals either coping with being on the spec ...Show more
The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius and Autism by Kristine Barnett
$26.00 NZD
Category: Aspergers & Autism
"The Spark describes in glowing terms the profound intensity with which a mother can love her child". (Andrew Solomon, author of Far from the Tree). "Extraordinary. A story of triumph against the odds and it's one that [Kristine] Barnett insists other parents can learn from". (Sunday Times). Kristine Ba ...Show more
Congratulations! It's Asperger Syndrome by Jen Birch
$53.00 NZD
Category: Aspergers & Autism
One of the increasing number of people diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in adulthood, New Zealand-born Jen Birch relates her story with humour and honesty, taking us through the years of frustration and confusion that led to her diagnosis in 1998. Now that she can put her life experiences into context ...Show more
Exploring Depression, and Beating the Blues: A CBT Self-Help Guide to Understanding and Coping with Depression in Asperger's Syndrome [ASD-Level 1] by Tony Attwood; Michelle Garnett; Colin Thompson (Illustrator)
$43.00 NZD
Category: Aspergers & Autism
For people with ASDs, depression is common, and has particular features and causes. This outstanding book provides a comprehensive review of these aspects, and an effective self-help guide for anyone with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affected by depression. Written by the leading experts in the fie ...Show more
Isaac and His Amazing Asperger Superpowers! by Melanie Walsh
$19.00 NZD
Category: Self-Esteem & Fitting In
A groundbreaking picture book which explains Asperger's Syndrome in a simple, gentle and positive way to very young children. A groundbreaking picture book, described by the National Autistic Society as "delightful ...full of positive messages", which explains Asperger's Syndrome in a simple, gentle an ...Show more
The Boy Who Felt Too Much by Lorenz Wagner
$33.00 NZD
Category: Aspergers & Autism
Henry Markram is the Elon Musk of neuroscience, the man behind the billion-dollar Blue Brain Project to build a supercomputer model of the brain. He has set the goal of decoding all disturbances of the mind within a generation. This quest is personal for him. The driving force behind his grand ambition ...Show more
To Siri with Love by Judith Newman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 From the author of the viral New York Times op-ed column "To Siri with Love" comes a collection of touching, hilarious, and illuminating stories about life with a thirteen-year-old boy with autism that hold insights and revelations for us all. When Judith Newman s ...Show more
