Echo R Fling

Eating an Artichoke

A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781853027116
• ISBN-10: 1853027111
• Artikelnr.: 22350565

Autorenporträt

Echo R. Fling is director of Communications in the Office of Marketing and College Relations at Thomas Edison State College. Prior to joining the College, she was President and a founding board member of ASC-US (Asperger Syndrome Coalition of the United States, Inc.). She lives in New Jersey with her husband and two children. Echo is a twenty-year veteran journalist, having worked in both the print and broadcast genres, and has taken extensive leave from her writing career to advocate for AS awareness. Her son Jimmy was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 1996.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword, by Tony Attwood. Preface. Acknowledgments. 1. There's Something
Wrong with Your Son. 2. Looking Back. 3. Now What Do We Do? 4. Back to
Basics. 5. Kitchen Classroom. 6. Reality Check. 7. Away at School. 8. Just
a Lonely Boy. 9. Drugs? 10. Out to Lunch. 11. Light at the End of the
Tunnel. 12. The Heart of my Artichoke. 13. Cha... Cha... Cha... Changes.
14. Making Sense of the Sensory. 15. Holla-daze. 16. Of Things Motoric. 17.
My Girly. 18. Finding His Passion - and Beyond. Resources.