| #4955069 in Books | Jessica Kingsley Pub | 2003-06-15 | 1970-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.25 x.50 x6.00l,.77 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | ||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| I liked this.|By Suzie|Neurotypical people read books by people with AS to find out about the condition or gain some illusive insight. As a person diagnosed with AS myself I just read them as most people would read any `normal' persons auto-biography... for interest and enjoyment and because, for a change, I can identify with the experiences the main character describes. <||Child psychiatry trainees and child psychiatrists will find that this book helps them understand the difficulties of a patient with Asperger's Disorder, and fleshes out the sterile clinical descriptions of the DSM IV. Parents of youth with this disorder may ga
Expelled from mainstream education and vaguely aware she has something called 'Asparagus' Syndrome, 12-year-old Jessica is sent away to a residential school for young people with autism. Here, at first miserable and misunderstood, she spends the next five years trying to cope with the strict school system - fighting against misguided teacher interventions, dealing with the onset of adolescence and fitting in with the other pupils. Recalling her school years with humour a...
You easily download any file type for your device.Asparagus Dreams | Jessica Peers. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
