Autism and adolescence--the way I see it what teens and adults need to know
"Dr. Temple Grandin draws on her hard-won experience to deliver an essential guidebook for guiding and nurturing autistic youth. She gets to the real issues of autistic adolescents--the ones parents, teachers, and individuals on the spectrum face every day."--
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[Arlington, TX] :
Future Horizons,
[2024]
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| Series: | Grandin, Temple, The way I see it ;
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Social functioning
- Insights into autistic social problems
- A few basic social skills are essential
- The need to be perfect
- Learning social rules
- Emotional differences among individuals with autism
- Healthy self-esteem
- Four cornerstones of social awareness
- Medications & biomedical issues
- Alternative versus conventional medicine
- Autism medical update
- Medication usage: risk versus benefit decisions
- My treatment for ringing in the ears
- Cognition and brain research
- Understanding nonverbal autism
- A social teenager trapped inside
- Understanding the mind of a nonverbal person with autism
- Tito lives in a world of sensory scrambling
- Adult issues & employment
- Improving time-management and organizational skills
- Employment advice: tips for getting and holding a job
- Teens with autism must learn both social and work skills to keep jobs
- Happy people on the autism spectrum have satisfying jobs or hobbies
- Inside or outside? the autism culture
- Portfolios can open job and college opportunities
- Going to college: tips for people with autism
- Finding mentors and appropriate colleges
- Reasonable accommodations for individuals on the autism spectrum
- Get out and experience life!
- Can my adolescent drive a car?
- Innovative thinking paves the way for AS career success
- Try on careers
- The link between autism genetics and genius
- My sense of self-identity.
