Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children in the Autism Spectrum

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Embracing Autism: Connecting and Communicating with Children in the Autism Spectrum

Robert Parish,Susan Senator

Description

"The voices here confirm what I've always suspected: everyone is part of one large continuum, and the approaches and insights recounted here can help any parent, any educator, any person deal with any child—or, for that matter, any other person—more effectively and with more compassion. I only wish I'd encountered earlier this cadre of experienced and caring individuals whose humor and resourcefulness represent clearly how best to love and nurture a child."—Cynthia Nitz Ris, J.D., Ph.D., University of Cincinnati

Through sensitive, sometimes humorous, experienced-based writing from teachers, clinicians, and parent activists in the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) community, this book will help educators and others to better understand the world inhabited by ASD children. The stories contained in the book will inspire and inform readers who are working day-to-day with children in the autism spectrum, providing valuable insights into what makes these kids tick and useful information on how they communicate, learn, and succeed.

Robert Parish (Cincinnati, OH) is an award-winning journalist with four nationally broadcast public TV documentaries about Autism Spectrum Disorders to his credit, as well as more than 100 digital video projects about ASD for the educational market.

About the Author

The Editor

Robert Parish is an award-winning journalist with four nationally broadcast public TV documentaries about autism spectrum disorders to his credit. He has produced more than one hundred digital video projects about ASD for educational distribution and hosts a bimonthly program on Autism One Radio (www.autismone.org). Parish’s son Jack has been an inspiration to him, his family, and many others. Thousands visit his educational website each month at www.comebackjack.org.

Features

• Hot topic: ASD is the fastest-growing developmental disability, with diagnoses increasing 10-17% annually. It affects as many as 1 in 150 children in the United States. Consequently, there is an enormous amount of interest in this topic.

• Author platform: Parish is a well-known and respected figure in the ASD community. He speaks to thousands of educators per year through his regular conference presentations, maintains a web site (comebackjack.org) which receives roughly 5,000 unique visitors per month, and is frequently interviewed in the media as an expert on autism. His latest documantary on autism will be released in Spring 2008.

• Provides valuable information: The inspirational stories contained in this book will provide educators with key insights into what makes these children tick and valuable information on how they communicate, learn, and succeed.

• Strong contributor list: The contributors to this book—including Stephen Shore, Susan Senator, Jeanne Lyons, and Arnold Miller—reach tens of thousands per year through speaking engagements, school workshops, media interviews, and writing for mainstream and professional publications, web sites, and blogs.

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