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One of us : a family's life with autism
A father chronicles the struggles he and his wife endured in diagnosing, treating, and understanding their autistic son's disability and offers an honest look at a child who does not overcome autism and a family that survives on love.
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Saving Ben
Each year thousands of children are diagnosed with autism, a devastating neurological disorder that profoundly affects a person’s language and social development. Saving Ben is the story of one family coping with autism, told from the viewpoint of a father struggling to understand his son’s strange behavior and rescue him from a downward spiral. “Take him home, love him, and save your money for his institutionalization when he turns twenty-one.” That was the best advice his doctor could offer in 1990 when three-year-old Ben was diagnosed with autism. Saving Ben tells the story of Ben’s regression as an infant into the world of autism and his journey toward recovery as a young adult. His father, Dan Burns, puts the reader in the passenger’s seat as he struggles with medical service providers, the school system, extended family, and his own limitations in his efforts to pull Ben out of his darkening world. Ben, now 21 years old, is a work in progress. The full force and fury of the autism storm have passed. Using new biomedical treatments, repair work is underway. Saving Ben is a story of Ben’s journey toward recovery, and a family’s story of loss, grief, and healing. “Keep the faith, never give up.” These are the lessons of the author’s miraculous journey, saving Ben.
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Reminiscing and Autobiographical Memory in ASD: Mother–Child Conversations About Emotional Events and How Preschool-Aged Children Recall the Past
Autobiographical memory (AM) is a socially-relevant cognitive skill. Little is known regarding AM during early childhood in ASD. Parent–child reminiscing conversations predict AM in non-ASD populations but have rarely been examined in autism. To address this gap, 17 preschool-aged children (ages 4–6 years) with ASD and 21 children without ASD matched on age, sex, and expressive language completed assessments of AM, executive functioning, self-related variables, and a parent–child reminiscing task. Children with ASD had less specific AM, which related to theory of mind, self-concept, and working memory. AM specificity also related to child observed autism traits. Mothers of children with ASD made more closed-ended and off-topic utterances during reminiscing, although only maternal open-ended elaborations predicted better AM in ASD.
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Autobiographical memory and suggestibility in children with autism spectrum disorder
Two paradigms were developed to examine autobiographical memory (ABM)
and suggestibility in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
Children with ASD (N = 30) and typically developing chronological
age-matched children (N = 38) ranging in age from 5 to 10 years
were administered an ABM questionnaire. Children were asked about details
of current and past personally experienced events. Children also
participated in a staged event, and later were provided with true and
false reminders about that event. Later, children again were interviewed
about the staged event. The results from both paradigms revealed that
children with ASD showed poorer ABM compared to controls. Generally, their
ABM was marked by errors of omission rather than by errors of commission,
and memory was particularly poor for early-life events. In addition, they
were as suggestible as the typically developing children. The results are
discussed in terms of applied and theoretical implications.This project was supported by a grant from
National Institutes of Health (RO1 HD39282) to M.B. Thanks to the many
children, parents, teachers, and school staff who took time and interest
in participating in this study. The assistance of Kendra Tannenbaum,
Jennifer Betkowski, Katie Whittaker, and Liz Marave is greatly
appreciated.
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Ascent
Joshua, an 18 year old diagnosed with autism, overcomes his personal struggles while becoming a champion at the sport he loves.
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Succeeding with autism : hear my voice
Michael is a young man who has succeeded in managing his autism and is experiencing success in life despite a diagnosis that might have predicted only disability and despair. He did not talk in early childhood and displayed the classic traits of a severely autistic child, but he has broken out of his silence to help others to learn from his insights and experiences.
An explosion of newly diagnosed cases of autism has resulted in a keen interest in the stories of autistic individuals, and many people are touched by knowing a family with an autistic child. This unique book reveals a silent world through the voice of an insightful, articulate young adult with autism. The book also gives perspectives from Michael's family, friends and the professionals who have known him from diagnosis in early childhood through to adult, independent life. After each chapter, the author presents \"reflections\" that highlight the key issues pertinent to autism and the relevant stage of development.
Michael's story is poignant and moving, and provides information and hope to families of autistic individuals and the professionals who work with them.
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Methodology for Product Development in Architecture
Methodology for Product Development in Architecture is dedicated to the methodology and processes of designing, developments and research of standard building products, building product systems and special building components, as well as to their applications in buildings. Therefore, this publication is of importance to product designers and product developers, who are mainly concerned with developing products and components at the side of producers, as well as to materializing architects and component designers. They are concerned with the materializing of the functional and spatial building concept as a whole and in parts. This book is first and foremost meant for professionals and students in the professional field of building technology, but will hopefully also appeal to professionals and students of architecture and building management. Professionals and students of related design sciences are invited to benefit from the contents of this work. The theory within this consideration is heavily influenced by the author's own experiences with building component systems and special components: space frames, glass, cardboard structures and composite structures for free form architecture.
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Multimodal, Digital Composition for Children with Autism: Lessons on Process, Product, and Assessment
In this article, we examine the multimodal, digital autobiography of Cindy, an eight-year-old student with autism. We first describe the process we went through with Cindy to make her video in an inclusive, general education classroom setting. Then we examine the different modes through which Cindy made meaning in her video, focusing on the ways she used images, sound, titles, and video within the video. We then discuss the ways Cindy exploited certain affordances of multimodality, such as overcoming blocks to verbal communication by recording and editing voiceovers. Finally, we sketch some lessons teachers and researchers might learn from Cindy in terms of working with children with autism in general education language arts classes and in terms of working with all children from an assets-based approach.
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Discovering the Truth with Tanner Demita
Tanner discusses the time when he learned about his diagnosis of being autistic, and how it has actually helped him understand why he is the way he is.
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