08 April 2010

Quirky, Yes. Hopless, No.

Quirky, yes--hopeless, no : practical tips to help your child with Asperger's syndrome be more socially accepted is a practical paperback by Cynthia La Brie Norall, PhD, a practitioner and mother of a teenage son with Asperger's Syndrome. In this book, she outlines the techniques used in the Friends' Club, which she founded to encourage social skills in children and teens with Asperger's. Each chapter addresses a particular skill or problem, such as Team Work, Perfectionism, Reading Minds and Faces, Peer Pressure, or Losing Gracefully. Norall is a proponent of writing social stories and also provides a list of web resource and further reading at the end.

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