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Book

Uniquely human : a different way of seeing autism

Call Number

  • 616.85882 P9619 (CEN)

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Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Publication Information

New York : Simon & Schuster, [2015]

Physical Description

x, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Summary

Autism is usually portrayed as a checklist of deficits, including difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. This perspective leads to therapies focused on ridding individuals of "autistic" symptoms. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant, an internationally renowned autism expert, offers a new and compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism don't aim at fixing a person by eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individual's experience and what underlies the behavior.

Notes

"Simon & Schuster nonfiction original hardcover."

Subjects

Added Authors

Thomas Fields-Meyer