Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew

by Ellen Notbohm, Veronica Zysk

Overview

A bestseller gets even better! Every parent, teacher, social worker, therapist, and physician should have this succinct and informative book in their back pocket. Framed with both humor and compassion, the book describes ten characteristics that help illuminate—not define—children with autism.
Ellen’s personal experiences as a parent of children with autism and ADHD, a celebrated autism author, and a contributor to numerous publications, classrooms, conferences, and websites around the world coalesce to create a guide for all who come in contact with a child on the autism spectrum. This updated edition delves into expanded thought and deeper discussion of communication issues, social processing skills, and the critical roles adult perspectives play in guiding the child with autism to a meaningful, self-sufficient, and productive life.
A bonus section includes ten more essential, thought-provoking "things" to share with young people on the spectrum as they cross the threshold of adulthood, and an appendix of more than seventy questions suitable for group discussion or self-reflection. This new edition sounds an even more resonant call to action, carrying the reader farther into understanding the needs and the potential of every child with autism.
Ellen Notbohm’s Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew has won the Bronze medal in Psychology in the ForeWord Book of the Year Awards in 2013, winner of an iParenting Media Award and Honorable Mention in the 2005 ForeWord Book of the Year Awards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932565362
Publisher:	Future Horizons, Inc.
Publication date:	10/28/2006
Pages:	117
Sales rank:	164,452
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Book author, columnist, and mother of sons with autism and ADHD, Ellen Notbohm’s writings on autism and general interest subjects have been published on every continent (except Antarctica—yet). Her books, Ten Things Every Child with Autism Wishes You Knew, Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew, and The Autism Trail Guide are ForeWord Book of the Year finalists. Both Ten Things books are also iParenting Media Award recipients. A regular columnist for Autism Asperger’s Digest magazine and Children’s Voice, she also co-authored with Veronica Zysk 1001 Great Ideas for Teaching and Raising Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders, a Learning Magazine 2006 Teachers’ Choice Award winner. Beyond autism, she is a frequent contributor to Ancestry magazine, has published political commentary in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers around the U.S., and writes for numerous regional and national magazines on a range of subjects. Ellen welcomes reader feedback and newsletter signs-ups through her website at www.ellennotbohm.com.

Table of Contents

Preface

We Begin Again

Ten Things Your Student With Autism Wishes You Knew

Chapter 1: Learning is Circular: We are all both teachers and students.
Chapter 2: We are a Team: Success depends on all of us working together.
Chapter 3. I Think Differently: Teach me in a way that is meaningful to me.
Chapter 4: Behavior is Communication: Yours, Mine and Ours.
Chapter 5: Glitched, Garbled and Bewildered: If we can’t communicate effectively, learning can’t happen.
Chapter 6: Teach the Whole Me: I’m much more than a set of “broken” or “missing” parts.
Chapter 7: Be Curious . . . Be very curious
Chapter 8: Can I Trust You?
Chapter 9: Believe
Chapter 10: Teach Me “How to Fish”: See me as a capable adult and hold that vision.

Endnotes
About the Author
 

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Ten Things Your Student with Autism Wishes You Knew breaks new ground in teaching children with autism spectrum disorders. A ‘must’ for school districts around the country, their educators, parents and PTAs.”
Charles D. Hammerman, Managing Director, The Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University

 

“Ellen Notbohm’s clever and compassionate understanding of how we think and learn makes her new book the best ally your student with autism could wish for.”
William Stillman, Asperger’s self-advocate and author of Demystifying the Autistic Experience

 

“Ellen captures the major issues of autism and makes them understandable and useable, even to those new to spectrum disorders…”
Nancy H. Cale, Vice President, Unlocking Autism

Editorial Reviews

“Ellen Notbohm’s clever and compassionate understanding of how we think and learn makes her new book the best ally your student with autism could wish for.”
William Stillman, Asperger’s self-advocate and author of Demystifying the Autistic Experience

 

From the Publisher