Martian in the Playground: Understanding the Schoolchild with Asperger's Syndrome (Lucky Duck Books Series) / Edition 2

by Clare Sainsbury

Overview

This award winning book illuminates what it means to be a person who has Aspergers Syndrome by providing a window into a unique and particular world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781849200004
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	10/02/2009
Series:	Lucky Duck Books
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	131
Product dimensions:	6.50(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword - Jean Gross
Research in the Field of Asperger's Syndrome - Tony Attwood
Introduction to Martian in the Playground - Tony Attwood
Introduction
What is Asperger's Syndrome?
"We Are Not Broken ": Asperger's Syndrome and the Goals of Education
In the Classroom: The Learning Environment
In the Playground: The Social Environment
In the Lunch Queue: The Sensory and Motor Environment
Secondary Conditions and Challenging Behaviour
Preparing for Life After School
Talking About Asperger's Syndrome
Conclusion

Editorial Reviews

'[A book] that can be easily read in a couple of sittings and one that will provide good advice for people who will interact with these children on a daily basis' -
CHOICE Magazine

‘This deceptively little book contains more truth and provides more insight into what it is like to have Asperger's Syndrome than many a weighty tome on the subject. It offers a view from the inside, but it is not yet another autobiography. Admirably and refreshingly, the author has refrained from giving an account solely based on her own experiences. Instead she sets out observations from 25 different suffers, giving often astonishing and sometimes harrowing glimpses of what actually happens to a child with Asperger's Syndrome in the classroom, in the playground, in the lunch queue and at home' - The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry

From the Publisher