Autism adulthood

strategies and insights for a fulfilling life
Susan Senator
Book - 2016

"Autism Adulthood features thirty interviews with autistic adults, their parents, caregivers, researchers, and professionals. Each vignette reveals firsthand a familys challenge, their circumstances, their thought processes, and their unique solutions, and plans of action. Sharing the wisdom that emerges from parents and self-advocates experiences, Senator adds her own observations and conclusions based on her long-term experience with autism. Told in Senators trademark warm, honest, and approachable style, Autism Adulthood paints a vivid and thought-provoking picture of many people grappling with grown-up, real-life autism. Senators is the only book of its kind, as real families share their stories and their creative solutions,"--Amazon.com.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Senator, Susan (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]
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