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Delve Deeper into Neurotypical A film by Adam Larsen This multi-media resource Through her finely observed condition. She examines Autistic list, compiled by Linda understanding of the workings of Spectrum Disorders, Dyslexia, Brawley of San Diego Public her mind she gives us an Dyspraxia, ADHD, OCD, Library, provides a range of invaluable insight into autism Tourette's and Anxiety Disorders. perspectives on the issues and its challenges. raised by the POV Mooney, Jonathan. The Short documentary Neurotypical. Grandin, Temple, and Richard Bus: A Journey Beyond Panek. The Autistic Brain: Normal. New York: H. Holt Neurotypical is an Thinking Across the Paperbacks, 2007. unprecedented exploration of Spectrum. Boston: Houghton Labeled “dyslexic and profoundly autism from the point of view of Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. The learning disabled,” Jonathan autistic people themselves. Four- latest by Grandin describes what Mooney was a short-bus rider—a year-old Violet, teenaged she considers the "third phase" derogatory term used for kids in Nicholas and adult Paula occupy of research and understanding of special education. To learn how different positions on the autism autism. She explains how 21st- others had moved beyond labels, spectrum, but they are all at century brain-imaging he bought his own short bus and pivotal moments in their lives. technology allows researchers to set out cross-country. This is his How they and the people around see differences in the wiring and irreverent and poignant record of them work out their perceptual structures of the brains of people that odyssey, meeting people and behavioral differences with autism. who teach Mooney that there’s becomes a remarkable reflection no such thing as normal – and of the "neurotypical" world — the Grinker, Roy Richard. that to really live, every person world of the non-autistic — Unstrange Minds: Remapping must find their own special way revealing inventive adaptations the World of Autism. Basic of keeping on. on each side and an emerging Books, 2007. Based on his critique of both what it means to work in the United States and Sacks, Oliver. An be normal and what it means to abroad, Roy Richard Grinker Anthropologist on Mars: be human. presents the controversial idea Seven Paradoxical Tales. New that there is no evidence for an York: Knopf, 1995. Oliver ADULT NONFICTION autism epidemic. Instead, the Sacks has written that high rates of prevalence and neurological patients are Armstrong, Thomas. diagnosis today are instead travelers to unimaginable lands. Neurodiversity: Discovering evidence that scientists are An Anthropologist on Mars offers the Extraordinary Gifts of finally counting cases correctly. portraits of seven such travelers. Autism, Adhd, Dyslexia, and And this is a good thing, not only Along the way, he gives us a Other Brain Differences. for the US but for the world, new perspective on the way our Cambridge, MA: Da Capo including cultures that have only brains construct our individual Lifelong, 2010. just begun to learn about worlds. In his lucid and Armstrong uses the term autism. Unstrange Minds shows compelling reconstructions of the neurodiversity to encompass a how the shift in how we view and mental acts we take for granted– new way of thinking about a count autism is part of a set of the act of seeing, the transport variety of disabilities (e.g., broader shifts taking place in of memory, the notion of color– autism, attention societies throughout the world. Oliver Sacks provokes a new deficit/hyperactivity disorder, The growth of child psychiatry, sense of wonder at who we are. and dyslexia) by focusing on the decline of psychoanalysis, their potential benefits rather the internet, the rise of Sacks, Oliver. The Man Who than problems. For each of these international advocacy Mistook His Wife For A Hat: conditions, he provides an organizations, greater public And Other Clinical Tales. New overview, examples of sensitivity to children's York: Summit Books, 1985. complementary careers, and educational problems, and Here Dr. Sacks recounts the case stories of people who exceed changes in public policies have histories of patients lost in the expectations. together changed the way bizarre, apparently inescapable autism is diagnosed and defined. world of neurological disorders: Grandin, Temple. Thinking in people afflicted with fantastic Pictures: My Life with Autism. perceptual and intellectual Hendrickx, Sarah. The New York: Vintage Books, aberrations; patients who have Adolescent and Adult Neuro- 2006. The idea that some lost their memories and with Diversity: Handbook people think differently, though them the greater part of their Asperger's Syndrome, Adhd, no less humanly, is explored in pasts; who are no longer able to Dyslexia, Dyspraxia and this inspiring book. Temple recognize people and common Related Conditions. Jessica Grandin is a gifted and objects; who are stricken with Kingsley Publishers: London, successful animal scientist, and violent tics and grimaces or who 2010. Hendrickx provides an she is autistic. Here she tells us shout involuntary obscenities; invaluable resource for health what it was like to grow up whose limbs have become alien; and social care practitioners, as perceiving the world in an who have been dismissed as well as for individuals who feel entirely concrete and visual way retarded yet are gifted with that they may be living with an - somewhat akin to how animals uncanny artistic or mathematical undiagnosed developmental think - and how it feels now. talents. These are studies of life Delve Deeper into Neurotypical A film by Adam Larsen struggling against incredible can understand it. Life, secret information about his adversity, and they enable us to ‘normality’ and ‘reality’ will not mother. enter the world of the be the same after you read this neurologically impaired, to book. Nappi, Frank. The Legend of imagine with our hearts what it Mickey Tussler. New York: St. must be to live and feel as they Willis, Clarissa. Teaching Martin's Press, 2008. This is do. Young Children with Autism an honest and knowledgeable Spectrum Disorder. book about overcoming adversity Simone, Rudy. Aspergirls: Beltsville, MD : Gryphon and the basis for the television Empowering Females with House, 2006. Willis offers a movie A Mile in His Shoes. Asperger Syndrome. London: straightforward, easy-to- Mickey achieves local stardom Jessica Kingsley, 2010. Rudy understand guide to working despite his autism, abusive asserts that girls with Asperger's with autistic children. She father and his teammates' Syndrome are less frequently explains the major clubhouse pranks. Nappi’s diagnosed than boys and help is characteristics associated with powerful story shows that with often not readily available for autism and helps teachers and support and determination them. Rudy opens our eyes to parents understand how these anyone can be triumphant, even the World of the Aspergirl, children relate to the world. when the odds are stacked providing powerful insights on Teachers and parents can against them. love, learning, sex, career, discover meaningful ways to marriage, having children, communicate while allowing friendships, puberty, diagnosis, those with autism to learn and NONFICTION FOR YOUNGER emotions, health, aging and grow. READERS more. ADULT FICTION Lears, Laurie, and Karen Solomon, Andrew. Far From Ritz. Ian's Walk: A Story the Tree: Parents, Children Palmer, Michael. The Second About Autism. Morton Grove, and the Search for Identity. Opinion. New York: St. IL: Albert Whitman, 1998. A New York: Scribner, 2012. Martin's Press, 2009. The young girl realizes how much she Solomon’s startling proposition is novel is an exploration of a cares for her autistic brother Ian that diversity is what unites us young girl named Thea who is when he gets lost at the park. all. He writes about families determined to communicate with When her autistic little brother, coping with deafness, dwarfism, her comatose father despite Ian, wanders off while on a walk Down syndrome, autism, overwhelming odds. Thea has to the park, Julie must try to see schizophrenia, multiple severe Asperger’s syndrome, which the world through his eyes in disabilities, with children who are gives her an obsession with order to find him. prodigies, who are conceived in details, a near-encyclopedic rape, who become criminals, memory, and a rather charming who are transgender. While each awkwardness in social settings. of these characteristics is potentially isolating, the Perry, Drew. This Is Just experience of difference within Exactly Like You. New York: families is universal. In Viking, 2010. Set against a Solomon’s telling, these stories landscape of defunct putt-putt are everyone’s stories. courses and karaoke bars, parenthood and infidelity, This Is Williams, Donna. Nobody Just Exactly Like You is a wise Nowhere: The Remarkable and witty debut novel with Autobiography of an Autistic captivating insights into Girl. London: Jessica marriage, autism, suburban Kingsley, 1999. Nobody fiasco, and life's occasional Nowhere is an account of a soul miracles. of someone who lived the word ‘autism’ and survived in an unsympathetic environment FICTION FOR YOUNG ADULT despite intense inner chaos and READERS incomprehension. Born into a 1960’s family with more Haddon, Mark. The Curious challenges than she has, Donna Incident of the Dog in the starts out as a two year old Night-Time. New York: diagnosed as psychotic, and Doubleday, 2003. Despite his grows up treated as mad, overwhelming fear of interacting backward, and disturbed. with people, Christopher, a Gaining functional speech by late mathematically-gifted, autistic, childhood, Donna leaves home at fifteen-year-old boy, decides to 8 years old and is homeless by investigate the murder of a her teens in a world that can no neighbor's dog and uncovers more understand her than she .
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