Create a reward plan for your child with Asperger Syndrome
by: John Smith
Described as a ‘nuts and bolts guide to creating a reward plan for your child, this is a practical book that will be useful for children who respond to rewards and encouragement. This book is extremely functional and gives you the tools to tailor-make a plan for your own child, based on what motivates them. This would be a good starting point for use with younger children and for parents who are stuck and need a bit of practical help.
A Self-determined Future with Asperger Syndrome (AS): Solution Focused Approaches (Paperback)
by E. Veronica Bliss , Genevieve Edmonds
This book is a mixture of the practical and the thoughtful. It contains an explanation of the approach – which refreshingly is a social rather than medical model –but it is very much rooted in practical responses. Based on real-life examples, and with lots of tools and exercises, this is a real work-book for finding solutions and getting what you want out of life. Many of the strategies used are techniques that people with AS have themselves discovered; the book is written positively, and those with AS provide many of the answers. People on the Autistic Spectrum are not seen as problems, but people with difficulties searching for answers like all of us. This would be a good book for parents and carers seeking to encourage anyone with AS take positive steps to get to where they want to be.
The curious incident of the dog in the night-time.
By Mark Haddon
Is there anyone out there who hasn’t read this book? Do read it! Borrow it if you don’t want to splash out on a work of fiction, you really won’t regret it.
Christopher is different. Life can be difficult for him, especially as things change and he has to learn how to cope in difficult circumstances. This is a detective story like you’ve never read before! Mark Haddon has a real talent for giving us insights in to the mind of a young person with Asperger’s Syndrome. He does this with humour and simplicity. Suitable for older children and teens with AS, or perhaps their siblings, or for your friends and family who don’t have a clue what you’re talking about and need a little insight!