Beschreibung:
Rebecca Chilvers is a research psychologist. She has worked in the Social Communication Disorders Clinic at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London for over three years and specialises in working with children with high-functioning autism.
A celebration of the talents and insights of children on the autism spectrum, this book presents a collection of writings and drawings contributed by 21 autistic children. Their work covers topics that are of primary importance in understanding some of the common experiences that children with autism, and their families, go through.
1. Introduction. 2. What's so Different about Me? Life on the Autistic Spectrum. 3. School. 4. Me, My Friends and my Family. 5. Those things that I Do - Obsessions and Special interests. 6. The Future. References. Biographies. Index.