Asperger's Syndrome for Dummies

by Gina Gómez de la Cuesta, James Mason

"Asperger's Syndrome For Dummies" covers everything that both people living with the condition and their families need to know. From explaining symptoms and getting a diagnosis, through to overcoming bullying in schools and choosing between the therapy and medical treatments available, this is a complete guide to surviving and thriving with the condition."Asperger's Syndrome For Dummies" includes:

Part I: Understanding Asperger's syndrome (AS)
Chapter 1: Introducing Asperger's syndrome
Chapter 2: Discovering the causes of Asperger's syndrome
Chapter 3: Diagnosing Asperger's syndrome

Part II: Living with Asperger's syndrome
Chapter 4: Enjoying Life with Asperger's
Chapter 5: Getting the most out of education and the workplace
Chapter 6: Finding independence and advocating for your rights

Part III: Supporting people with Asperger's syndrome
Chapter 7: Parenting and Asperger's syndrome
Chapter 8: Relating to adults with Asperger's syndrome
Chapter 9: Creating an AS friendly environment


Part IV: Discovering therapies, medication, diet and environments for AS
Chapter 10: Navigating Behavioural Therapies for Asperger's Syndrome
Chapter 11: Understanding medication and diet in Asperger's syndrome

Part V: Part of Tens
Chapter 12: Ten Organisations to go for help and information
Chapter 13: Ten positives about living with Asperger's
Chapter 14: Ten famous people who probably had Asperger's

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Autistic Spectrum Disorder

384 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 1, 2010

About the author

Aka Georgina Gómez de la Cuesta

Reviews

[Debbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Yes, I’m an aspie but yet again I find it condescending when a book on aspergers talk about normal women as liking ‘girlie’ things like soaps hairstyles and clothes. Like that’s all that none aspie women talk about. That’s incredibly offensive. I know a lot of none Asperger women and not one of them care about Coronation street and Cosmo magazine

So I say to these Asperger books. Stop being offensive to A typical women for goodness sake. It’s, not, cool!

Otherwise this is a pretty good informative book. It’s a little far reaching though. Again as an aspie, Im not interested in parents with aspie children. I just care about adult Asperger issues. So this book tries to be everything to everyone which didn’t quite work for me.

[Benjamin Barnes · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very Useful

This is a very Useful and educational book on Aspergers Syndrome and would recommend this anyone who as Aspergers or There Family and Friends

[Paulette · Rating 2 out of 5]

A hard read but got there in the end!

[Martin McDonald · Rating 5 out of 5]

A really good introduction.
My brother is currently waiting for an assessment for Aspergers at the age of 51. We've suspected for a long time that he's on the spectrum but he only recently agreed to register with a doctor to get his multiple physical, mental and developmental issues attended to. This book is a really good introduction for people with Aspergers and for those wanting to understand and help people with Aspergers, like me. It's really clearly written using plain English and has helped me to understand how my brother may be experiencing the world, what to expect from a diagnosis, accessing help and services, knowing the rights of a person with Aspergers and so on. It's written largely with children and young people with Aspergers and their parents or guardians in mind, so will probably be very helpful if that is you.

[Robert Elek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice overview.