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The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome: Completely Revised and Updated: Advice, Support, Insight, and Inspiration Kindle Edition
As the mother of a boy diagnosed with AS in 1994, Barbara Kirby found scant resources and support. She developed the internationally renowned OASIS (Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support) Web site in 1995 to help other parents find the information they need. She teamed up with Patricia Romanowski Bashe, now co-owner of OASIS and herself the mother of a son with AS, to write The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome, which has become the standout authority in the field and a must-have for this growing audience.
Now Bashe and Kirby have crafted a fully revised edition of this comprehensive resource for parents, teachers, therapists, and anyone who knows or works with someone with AS. In addition to discussing what AS looks like and how parents can guide their unique child through the social, emotional, and intellectual challenges of growing up, this edition includes new developments made in AS research over the past four years, new thinking on diagnosis and evaluation, the latest approaches to medication and social skills development, and tips on navigating the maze of interventions, therapies, and special education. The authors know firsthand the joys and frustrations of raising children with AS, and they share their own experiences as well as those of dozens of parents facing the same issues.
Filled with practical information and emotional support, this is the most complete and authoritative guide available. Whether your child has been diagnosed or troubling symptoms are just becoming apparent, this book will point you in the right direction as you face the particular challenges of loving and raising a child with Asperger Syndrome.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarmony
- Publication dateOctober 20, 2010
- File size4680 KB
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“Well beyond merely identifying and defining AS, the authors provide dozens of field-tested strategies that can be used at home, in the classroom, and in the community. . . . Bashe and Kirby offer reliable counsel on topics related to diagnosis, treatment, assessment, and placement. If you share your home or classroom with a child with Asperger Syndrome, buy this book.” —Richard D. Lavoie, visiting professor, Simmons College, and executive producer of How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. City Workshop
“The OASIS Web site has been a light of hope for individuals with Asperger Syndrome, their families, and advocates. Kirby pioneered ways of transforming the Internet into an accessible tool to help those who needed reputable information and practical guidelines on social disabilities. Her groundbreaking ways continue in this collaboration with Bashe, now in its second edition. . . . Inspired and informed by their professional background and by their uniquely intimate perspective on parenting children with AS, the two compiled a treasure of essential solutions to anyone who, like them, experiences the joys ...
About the Author
Barbara L. Kirby is the founder and moderator of OASIS, the award-winning online source for AS information and support. She moderates several online support forums and was a founding member of ASC-US, Inc. (Asperger Syndrome Coalition of the United States) and serves on its advisory board. She is also on the board of Homes for Independence, an organization that helps adults with autism spectrum disorders achieve home ownership. She lives in Delaware. Both Bashe and Kirby are parents of children with Asperger Syndrome.
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- ASIN : B000SEH5GK
- Publisher : Harmony; Revised, Updated edition (October 20, 2010)
- Publication date : October 20, 2010
- Language : English
- File size : 4680 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 524 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,283,028 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,338 in Parenting eBooks on Children with Disabilities
- #1,946 in Children's Health (Kindle Store)
- #4,788 in Parenting Books on Children with Disabilities
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Patricia Ann Romanowski Bashe was born in Wichita, Kansas, where her mother owned a nightclub and her father was an ironworker. From age seven until sixteen, she moved often, attending fourteen different schools in Oregon, California, and Florida before settling in the North Bronx. A graduate of Christopher Columbus High School, with a BA in English Literature from Herbert H. Lehman College (CUNY), she embarked on a career in publishing, first at a local newspaper, The Parkway News, then a legal publisher, and the trade house E. P. Dutton before becoming the first editor of Rolling Stone Magazine's book division, Rolling Stone Press. There she edited and contributed to several books, including "The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll," which she co-edited through three editions and for which she received an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award. Her work on pop culture and music has appeared in "The New York Times Book Review" and "Rolling Stone," among other publications. After leaving Rolling Stone, she was preparing to apply for law school when she was asked to help cowrite two celebrity autobiographies: Mary Wilson's "Dreamgirl" and Vanna White's "Vanna Speaks." After both hit the bestseller list, law school was forgotten. Since then, Patty has cowritten twenty-three books spanning several genres: celebrity autobiography (with Annette Funicello, Temptations founder Otis Williams, Donny Osmond, Teddy Pendergrass, Nichelle Nichols), self-help ("Helping Children Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way," with M. Gary Neuman; "You Get Past the Tears," with Patricia Broadbent), health and fitness (with Joannie Greggains, Billy Blanks), paranormal psychology (the "George Anderson" trilogy and "Love Beyond Life" with Joel Martin), and special education and autism. The Emmy-award-winning miniseries "The Temptations" is based on the book with Otis Williams, and Annette Funicello's "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" was also a miniseries. After her son was diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, she earned as master's degree in special education and became a certified special education teacher, Board Certified Behavior Analyst, and consultant to parents and school districts on students with autism. Her first book about autism spectrum disorders, cowritten with Barbara Kirby, is "The OASIS Guide to Asperger Syndrome," now in its second edition. She is preparing for the publication of "The Parents' Guide to Teaching Kids with Asperger Syndrome and Similar ASDs Real-Life Skills for Independence," due out on October 25, 2011, from Three Rivers/Crown. She lives on Long Island with her husband, the author Philip Bashe, and their son, Justin. For more about her book projects (including the chance to participate in research for them) or to contact her, please visit www.pattyrbashe.com.
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It covers general info about Asperger Syndrome, what it looks like, how it is diagnosed, options and interventions, medication, special ed basics,and the child's emotional life, to name just a few.
It is well written and easy to read and understand.
I highly recommend this book for parents of children recently diagnosed with Aspergers! A wealth of good info!
I think this book should be required reading in teacher training (we're seeing so many more aspies, but they're still a mystery to many educators), as well as a resource in schools for special ed and mainstream ed.
This book makes it look like only children are diagnosed with this and have a seriously debilitating disorder as a result. AS is rarely such a disabling disorder and many people are never diagnosed with it except through adult counseling.
The information, though suspect because of the range of disability, is still very good and very well presented.