Authors: Echo R. Fling, Tony Attwood
ISBN-13: 9781853027116, ISBN-10: 1853027111
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Kingsley, Jessica Publishers
Date Published: February 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Fling, Echo R.
During a routine parent-teacher conference in November 1991, Echo Fling was told by her son's teacher that his behaviour in class was 'not normal'. After two years at the pre-school, five-year-old Jimmy had failed to make any friends, had recently started to act aggressively towards his classmates, and was beginning to react violently to any changes in his routine. Echo was not taken completely by surprise: she had suspected for some time that her son was different from other children. Over the next five years, she and her husband accompanied Jimmy to doctors, medical specialists, learning consultants and psychologists. Finally, at the age of ten, Jimmy was diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome.
This is the book that Echo Fling needed when she first set out to have Jimmy diagnosed, and it will enable parents and teachers to understand and help other children with Asperger Syndrome.
Foreword | 9 | |
Preface | 11 | |
Acknowledgements | 13 | |
1 | There's something wrong with your son | 15 |
2 | Looking back | 22 |
3 | Now what do we do? | 26 |
4 | Back to basics | 36 |
5 | Kitchen classroom | 44 |
6 | Reality check | 53 |
7 | Away at school | 66 |
8 | Just a lonely boy | 78 |
9 | Drugs? | 91 |
10 | Out to lunch | 100 |
11 | Light at the end of the tunnel | 113 |
12 | The heart of my artichoke | 122 |
13 | Ch... ch... cha... changes | 132 |
14 | Making sense of the sensory | 145 |
15 | Holla-daze | 156 |
16 | Of things motoric | 168 |
17 | My Girly | 179 |
18 | Finding his passion--and beyond | 188 |
Afterword: The politics of it all | 200 | |
References | 206 |