Autism Life Skills
From Communication and Safety to Self-Esteem and More - 10 Essential AbilitiesEv ery Child Needs and Deserves to Learn
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3.5 • 11 Ratings
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Publisher Description
Award-winning autism expert Chantal Sicile-Kira presents a positive and empowering ?bill of rights? for every person with autism.
From an award-winning author and advocate, Autism Life Skills presents a positive and empowering "bill of rights" for every person with autism, regardless of impairment level. With advice and reflections from autistic adults across the spectrum, as well as Sicile-Kira's own experience as an advocate and parent of an autistic teen, the book covers these ten essential life skills:
Making Sense of the World * Communication * Safety * Self-Esteem * Pursuing Interests * Self-Regulation * Independence * Social Relationships * Self- Advocacy *Earning a Living
Whether your child or student has Asperger's or is on the more severely impaired end of the autism spectrum, this action-oriented guide will provide hope and help -- so that every child has a chance to reach his or her full potential.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Sicile-Kira, Chantal. Autism Life Skills: From Communication and Safety to Self-Esteem and More--10 Essential Abilities Every Child Needs and Deserves To Learn. Penguin. Oct. 2008. 224p. bibliog. pap. PSYCH~ Sicile-Kira's survey of practical and psychological changes facing children with autism will be most valuable to parents of older children. Slightly hampered by its overly general approach, this book is recommended for public libraries with autism and special-needs collections. Background: An advocate and parent of an autistic teenager, Sicile-Kira identifies ten challenges (including communication and safety) that confront children with autism and their families. The author includes accounts from people with autism taken from books, web sites, and blogs and provides tips and goals for parents to promote their child's independent and successful life. Of particular note is the section on self-esteem, which addresses the important issue of self-awareness of autism, especially among adolescents. The book would have been strengthened by the inclusion of unmediated voices from others with autism. The paraphrasing limits the text's appeal to a more general audience.--Corey Seeman, Kresge Business Administration Lib., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
