Counselling - Parenting: Mental Health

Offers author's own experience as an autistic person alongside remarkable new discoveries about the autistic brain, as well as genetic research. This book highlights long-ignored sensory problems as well as the need to treat autism symptom by symptom, rather than with an umbrella diagnosis.

Offers teachers a variety of effective strategies for teaching children diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, with research-based, instructional, behavioral, and environmental strategies.

John Robison recounts his struggles to fit in and communicate with others as he grew up, describing why he had so many problems relating to others and why he often turned to machines for comfort, rather than people, and explains how his life was changed when he was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome at age forty.

Provides advice to parents on raising children with a focus on the brain, discussing developing brains and behavior in children from birth through the teenage years, and offering tips and information on exercise, nutrition, play, sleep, stress, self-discipline, emotional intelligence, and connection with quizzes and checklists.

A collection of articles originally published in "Autism Aspergers Digest" that provides advice for parents, teachers, and caregivers of young people about the autism spectrum.