Finn Monahan

Know Your Spectrum!

An Autism Creative Writing Workbook for Teens

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This workbook uses creative writing activities and examples to encourage teenagers with autism to draw their own personal conclusions about what autism means for them. It focuses on the range of strengths and challenges they have as individuals.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kingsley
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Altersempfehlung: 12 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 295mm x 206mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 705g
• ISBN-13: 9781785924354
• ISBN-10: 1785924354
• Artikelnr.: 50016241

Autorenporträt

Finn Monahan is a specialist SPLD teacher working as a freelance Asperger's/Dyslexia Tutor and Disability Needs Assessor at Queen's University Belfast and the University of Ulster. She received a late diagnosis of Asperger's aged 38 and the impact of growing up without a diagnosis inspired her to write this book.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgement
Preface
Introduction
Aims of the book for teenagers
How to use the book
Chapter structure
How to use the book as a course
Chapter Instructions
Introductory poem
1. Know Your Spectrum of Executive Functioning
2. Know Your Spectrum of Sensory Things
3. Know Your Spectrum of Processing Differences
4. Know Your Spectrum of Theory of Mind
5. Know Your Spectrum of Social Communication
6. Know Your Spectrum of Shutdowns and Meltdowns
7. Know Your Spectrum of Self-Regulation and Routines
Final Poem
Epilogue
References
Further Reading