Connect: Findings for a New Era of Autism
A picture of autism like never before.
Told through a collection of stories and research on everything from employment and education to technology and parenting,
This package includes an individual download of the book providing tons of info and reasons to be optimistic about the future, and beautifully laid out for you to enjoy on a Kindle or iPad, your computer, paper, or even your phone. For personal use. It also includes a small digital collection of autism posters.
A ton of work went into this book, including reviewing more than 50 academic articles, multiple layout designs, edits from across the community, and more.
But I want the book to be as accessible as possible so we're letting you Whatever you feel like the book is worth is what you pay.
Here's a snapshot of just some of the 20 detailed chapters:
The Value of Peers
A beautiful look into what happens when we focus on building the peer support networks of students on the spectrum not by focusing on the child with autism but their peers.
Predictive Brain Responses
Our earliest moments of life are enormously influential on who and what we become, and now we know that certain brain activity can predict levels of functioning years later. So how do we impact it?
Goodbye Stress
Reducing parental stress is incredibly difficult but skills-based techniques and mindfulness-based techniques both work. We'll look at how reducing stress can have additional benefits for the parent-child relationship beyond just parents feeling better.
Gender Spectrum
We seem to have just accepted that autism occurs at different rates in boys and girls, but we've barely scratched the surface of all the reasons why we might be under-recognizing autism in girls, and even wrongfully characterizing the spectrum across genders. New findings and a new tool point to a brighter future.
Never Stop Learning
Innovation is impacting the autism community as much as any other, and it's transforming how people are diagnosed, treated and supported. In order to prepare people and organizations for the new era, we're going to need to be prepared ourselves. We'll look closely at a couple options.
*Special options for autism organizations: