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Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Nearly seventy-five years ago, Donald Triplett of Forest, Mississippi became the first child diagnosed with autism. Beginning with his family's odyssey, In a Different Key tells the extraordinary story of this often misunderstood condition, and of the civil rights battles waged by the families of those who have it. Unfolding over decades, it is a beautifully rendered history of ordinary people determined to secure a place in the world for those with...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Explores the latest science of autism, including how it is diagnosed, the best treatments, and theories of possible causes, interwoven with the author's own experience with new discoveries in neuroimaging and genetic research, even sharing her own brain scans from numerous studies."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alvie Fitz has spent years swallowing meds and bad advice from doctors and social workers. Adjust, adapt. Pretend to be normal. It sounds so easy. If she can make it to her eighteenth birthday without any major mishaps, she'll be legally emancipated. Her only friend is Chance, the one-winged hawk at the zoo where she works. Then she meet Stanley, who walks with a cane, whose body seems as fragile as glass. Without meaning to, they start getting close....
Author
Publisher
Free Spirit Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Provides information and advice for kids who have an autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, including what these disorders are, ways to make things better at home, at school, and with friends, taking medicine, eating healthy foods, and more.
Author
Language
English
Description
A father's inspiring portrait of his daughter informs this classic reassessment of the "epidemic" of autism.
When Isabel Grinker was diagnosed with autism in 1994, it occurred in only about 3 of every 10,000 children. Within ten years, rates had skyrocketed. Some scientists reported rates as high as 1 in 150. The media had declared autism an epidemic.
“Unstrange Minds” documents the global quest of Isabel's father, renowned anthropologist Roy...
Author
Language
English
Description
Jeni Decker is five-foot nothing and one hundred and [redacted] pounds-a self-described roly-poly, forty-something, Reubenesque bon-bon of a gal, often called cute but never sexy. She has two sons with autism on opposite ends of the spectrum (Jake and Jaxson), a husband who prefers hunting to household chores, an Australian Shepherd named Sugar, and an albino frog named Humbert Humbert. This is her story-a brash, personal, and some-times shocking...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comprehensive guide to autism research, covering a variety of therapies, models, and evaluation and treatment centers, including the basics of each topic, such as developments, risks, and benefits, and discussing clinical trials, developing research, as well as the researchers who are involved.
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