Eating an Artichoke
eBook - ePub

Eating an Artichoke

A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Eating an Artichoke

A Mother's Perspective on Asperger Syndrome

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Of related interest
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Foreword
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1. There’s something wrong with your son
  11. 2. Looking back
  12. 3. Now what do we do?
  13. 4. Back to basics
  14. 5. Kitchen classroom
  15. 6. Reality check
  16. 7. Away at school
  17. 8. Just a lonely boy
  18. 9. Drugs?
  19. 10. Out to lunch
  20. 11. Light at the end of the tunnel
  21. 12. The heart of my artichoke
  22. 13. Ch… ch… cha… changes
  23. 14. Making sense of the sensory
  24. 15. Holla-daze
  25. 16. Of things motoric
  26. 17. My Girly
  27. 18. Finding his passion – and beyond
  28. Afterword: The politics of it all
  29. References