Autism: An Inside-Out Approach
Autism: An Inside-Out Approach
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Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963. She was assessed at age two as psychotic, labelled disturbed and tested for deafness throughout childhood before being diagnosed as autistic in 1990. Today she is an internationally best-selling author with nine published books, an artist, singer-songwriter and emerging screenwriter. One of the most well-known people with autism in the world, Donna is a renowned international public speaker, a qualified teacher and has worked as an autism consultant since 1995.
About the Author
About the Author
A bucket full of jigsaws; what is this thing called ''autism''?; a brief history of autism; autism and the media; from stereotypes to facts; tackling the bogeyman of ''autism''; some faces of ''autism''; misplacement; the mixed bag found in one classroom; working with ''autism''; the straws on the camel's back; problems of connection; what can be done; adaptations and compensations; artificial limbs; ''hyper connection''; problems of tolerance; problems of control; non-firings, over-firings and mis-firings; communication; sleepwalker-sleeptalkers; savant skills; personality; Asperger's syndrome?; seeing ''systems''; education.
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