Growing Up on the Spectrum: A Guide to Life, Love, and Learning for Teens and Young Adults with Autism and Asperger's - Softcover

Koegel Ph.D., Lynn Kern; LaZebnik, Claire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143116665 ISBN 13: 9780143116660

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2010

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The first comprehensive guide to helping teens with autism—from the acclaimed authors of Overcoming Autism

With an estimated half a million Americans under twenty-six on the autism spectrum, this book offers the reassurance, solace, and practical solutions that so many people are searching for. Following up on their work in Overcoming Autism, which offered advice for teaching young children on the spectrum, Lynn Koegel and Claire LaZebnik now present strategies for working with teens and young adults living with this complex condition. Addressing universal parental concerns, from first crushes and a changing body to how to succeed in college and beyond, Growing Up on the Spectrum is a beacon of hope and wisdom for parents, therapists, and educators alike.

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Claire LaZebnik is a published novelist and magazine writer. She lives with her husband and four children in Pacific Palisades, California.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Acknowledgements

 

SECTION I - Getting Started

1. Introduction

2. Terms, Interventions, and Techniques

 

SECTION II - Making and Maintaining Good Friendships

1. Introduction and Some General Rules About Friendship

2. The Art of Conversation

3. Outings and Get-togethers

4. Parties

5. Dealing with Bullying and Peer Pressure

 

SECTION III - Making and Maintaining Successful Romantic Relationships

1. Introduction

2. Dating

3. Sex

 

SECTION IV - Making School Successful

1. Introduction

2. Middle and High School: Supported Independence

3. College

 

SECTION V - Beyond the College Years

1. Introduction

2. Jobs

3. Living Conditions

4. Legal Planning

 

SECTION VI - Improving Daily Life

1. Introduction

2. Walking Out the Door Looking Good

3. Managing Behavior

4. Managing Modern Technology

5. Improving Coexisting (aka Comorbid) Conditions

 

An Afterword for Educators by Robert L. Koegel, PhD

Resources

Index

Also by Lynn Kern Koegel and Claire LaZebnik

 

Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope That Can Transform a Child’s Life

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Copyright © Lynn Kern Koegel and Claire LaZebnik, 2009

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Koegel, Lynn Kern.
Growing up on the spectrum: a guide to life, love, and learning for teens and young adults
with autism and Asperger’s / by Lynn Kern Koegel and Claire LaZebnik.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

eISBN : 978-1-101-01653-4

1. Autism in adolescence—Popular works. 2. Asperger’s syndrome in adolescence—
Popular works. I. LaZebnik, Claire Scovell. II. Title.
RJ506.A9K635 2009
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For our Roberts:

We’re incredibly lucky to have your skill and enthusiasm supporting us in both our personal and professional lives.

Acknowledgments

First and foremost, we’d like to thank our children (six in total) for bringing so much happiness into our lives and for selflessly agreeing to let us tell some of their personal stories. Extra thanks go to Andrew for his contributions to this book, including all of the illustrations and many wonderful and honest personal essays. We also appreciate the support from our larger family—our parents, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends—who listen, laugh, and cry with us.

We’d also like to express our sincere appreciation to the children with autism whom we’ve met along the way and to their families. The world is a richer place because of people like them.

Next, we are so grateful to everyone who contributed a personal essay. Our book has been hugely enriched by their expertise and their willingness to share their perspectives and personal stories about the trials and tribulations they’ve endured in the always unpredictable world of autism.

Thanks to those who proofread this book for us—Bob Koegel, Rob LaZebnik, Brittany Koegel, Lee Kern, Whitney Smith, Rosy Fredeen, and Ashley Koegel—for all their helpful thoughts and comments. We also want to give a shout-out to the wonderful graduate students at UCSB, who are the best and the brightest, who enthusiastically work with people on the spectrum, and who have dedicated their lives to helping these individuals. The future of children on the spectrum is in good hands with people like you. Dr. Rosy Fredeen deserves special thanks for her skill, expertise, constant cheerfulness, wonderful personality, and feedback and suggestions for this book.

We also greatly appreciate Rebecca Hunt for her impressive speed-reading skills, thoughtful comments, and enthusiasm throughout this entire process, and also Alexis Hurley for her continual support and encouragement over the years.

Support for the research described in this book has been provided by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Department of Education, the First 5 California, and the families who have generously supported the UCSB Koegel Autism Center. We’d also like to express special thanks to the Kelly Family Foundation, the Kind World Foundation, and Eli and Edythe L. Broad—their extraordinary support of the Autism and Asperger’s Center, housed at UCSB, has greatly enhanced the lives of individuals on the spectrum.

For more information on the Pivotal Response Treatment procedures described in this book go to www.education.ucsb.edu/autism.

SECTION I

Getting Started

1. Introduction

CLAIRE

In 2004, when Dr. Koegel and I finished writing our first book together (Overcoming Autism: Finding the Answers, Strategies, and Hope That Can Transform a Child’s Life, Viking/Penguin), my son Andrew was just entering middle school, and the personal essays I included in the book were a look back at the first ten to twelve years of his life.

He is, at the moment I write this, currently finishing up his sophomore year of high school. By the time this book is published, he will be a junior.

A couple of years ago, I submitted an essay to the New York Times “Modern Love” column that was published the following month. I wrote about my son’s growing interest in girls and my fears...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0143116665
• ISBN 13: 9780143116660
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 400
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