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Obras por Fred R. Volkmar
Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Diagnosis, Development, Neurobiology, and Behavior (volume 1) (1987) 37 exemplares
A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent, Family Member, and Teacher Needs to Know (2009) 25 exemplares
Healthcare for Children on the Autism Spectrum: A Guide to Medical, Nutritional, and Behavioral Issues (Topics in… (2004) 23 exemplares
Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Assessment, Interventions, and Policy (Volume 2) (2005) 19 exemplares
Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders (Cambridge Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) (1998) 17 exemplares
Asperger Syndrome, Second Edition: Assessing and Treating High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorders (2014) 14 exemplares
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A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent,… por Fred R. Volkmar
Helpful, current and practical coverage of the core issues and support strategies, primarily focused on childhood and student phases
This is definitive academic primer on Aspergers Syndrome. It is written for medical professionals, although the layman will find much of it accessible.
Want to know everything about autism? This book may be for you. Want to know what you need to know? That's another question.
This is the largest book on autism I've ever taken on -- 610 pages, and while the print is large, it's also an oversize volume, so there is a lot of information here. Too much, I think. It's targeted to caretakers of those with autism (parents, relatives, teachers) -- but because it's so large, no one who is not a professional can hope to take it all in. So you're stuck with index-hunting, and while the index is good, it isn't perfect.
And it's almost all about children. There is one chapter, chapter 9, about what happens after adulthood -- but even that is a planning chapter, not an "OK, we're here, what do we do now?" chapter. Not much use for those who were diagnosed with autism as an adult.
And the whole thing feels... old. It was copyrighted in 2009, so some of it is that the field has evolved since then. But the book feels as if it had been written perhaps around 2000. (This may be the result of its sheer size -- although finished in 2009, much of it is probably substantially older.) A lot of the advice here strikes me as out of date -- and not just because they've changed the criteria for autism. The book is broad, but it is not deep.
For example: There is only one mention in the index of friends. It points to a discussion of how to tell friends about autism. This is absurd. Friendships are hard for autistics, but -- speaking as an autistic myself -- having friends is probably the single biggest difference between success and failure. A book that doesn't talk about friendships -- how to form them and how to keep them -- is like a book about mathematics that doesn't admit the existence of addition.
Bottom line: For adults with autism, there really isn't much here that is useful. For parents of autistic children, there is more. But this isn't the first book you should get. It's perhaps the third or fourth. Get a good starting guide (perhaps one of Tony Attwood's books), then add this as a reference later on.… (mais)
This is the largest book on autism I've ever taken on -- 610 pages, and while the print is large, it's also an oversize volume, so there is a lot of information here. Too much, I think. It's targeted to caretakers of those with autism (parents, relatives, teachers) -- but because it's so large, no one who is not a professional can hope to take it all in. So you're stuck with index-hunting, and while the index is good, it isn't perfect.
And it's almost all about children. There is one chapter, chapter 9, about what happens after adulthood -- but even that is a planning chapter, not an "OK, we're here, what do we do now?" chapter. Not much use for those who were diagnosed with autism as an adult.
And the whole thing feels... old. It was copyrighted in 2009, so some of it is that the field has evolved since then. But the book feels as if it had been written perhaps around 2000. (This may be the result of its sheer size -- although finished in 2009, much of it is probably substantially older.) A lot of the advice here strikes me as out of date -- and not just because they've changed the criteria for autism. The book is broad, but it is not deep.
For example: There is only one mention in the index of friends. It points to a discussion of how to tell friends about autism. This is absurd. Friendships are hard for autistics, but -- speaking as an autistic myself -- having friends is probably the single biggest difference between success and failure. A book that doesn't talk about friendships -- how to form them and how to keep them -- is like a book about mathematics that doesn't admit the existence of addition.
Bottom line: For adults with autism, there really isn't much here that is useful. For parents of autistic children, there is more. But this isn't the first book you should get. It's perhaps the third or fourth. Get a good starting guide (perhaps one of Tony Attwood's books), then add this as a reference later on.… (mais)
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- 235
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