Overcoming Autism

Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope That Can Transform a Child's Life is a book that novelist Claire Scovell LaZebnik co-wrote with therapist Lynn Koegel, of the UCSB Autism Research and Training Center, in 2004. Lynn writes about strategies for educating and working with children with autism, and Claire writes about her experience raising her autistic son. The book includes specific advice for teaching and raising children with autism, as well as personal anecdotes of families with autistic children.

Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope That Can Transform a Child's Life
AuthorClaire Scovell LaZebnik and Lynn Koegel
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genrenon-fiction
PublisherViking Adult and Penguin (Non-Classics)
Publication date
April 12, 2004 and February 1, 2005
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages336
ISBN0-14-303468-5
OCLC58550531

This book is non-fiction and represents a pro-applied behavior analysis point of view. The authors advocate the use of pivotal response therapy in working with autistic children.

Chapters

Chapter One - Diagnosis: Surviving the Worst News You'll Ever Get

Chapter Two - Ending the Long Silence: Teaching Your Child to Communicate

Chapter Three - Tears, Meltdowns, Aggression, and Self-Injury: Breaking the Cycle

Chapter Four - Self-Stimulation: Flapping, Banging, Twirling, and Other Repetitive Behaviors

Chapter Five - Social Skills: Turning Language and Play into Meaningful Interactions

Chapter Six - Battling Fears and Fixations: Bringing Your Child Back to the Real World

Chapter Seven - Education: Finding the Right School Placement and Making It Even More Right

Chapter Eight - Family Life: Fighting Your Way Back to Normalcy

gollark: I was going to say "I think it's more that people are stupid than that society is doing it" but really I have no idea. I guess you could look at history.
gollark: Alternatively, we somehow train everyone in dealing with cognitive biases, if that's actually possible?
gollark: This is very* practical.
gollark: No, that would be ridiculous. Instead, we force them to speak only through speech synthesis, with their picture obscured, and run the text through a neural network which bland-ifies it and possibly removes some stupid things.
gollark: That sounds like one of those "requires general intelligence" problems.

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