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By Lois Prislovsky,Barb Rentenbach

ISBN-10: 0988344912

ISBN-13: 9780988344914

A candid, useful, and defiantly humorous consultant to embracing neurological differences--from a bitingly witty autistic mute and her dyslexic, ADHD-wired, lesbian therapist.
Shattering the normal concept of incapacity, Neurodiversity sheds gentle on autism spectrum affliction (ASD), awareness deficit problems (ADD/ADHD), dyslexia, and different neurological changes as typical human adaptations with their very own demanding situations and strengths. whereas subsidized by way of mind technology, the authors write from own adventure. Speechless (literally) as a result of critical autism, Barb Rentenbach communicates via typing one letter at a kind. (Though "disguised as a bad thinker," she's ingenious, committed, and tremendously patient.) Her therapist and buddy, Lois Prislovsky, Ph.D., is an academic psychologist whose exact qualities contain dyslexia and ADHD. (She's additionally married to a girl, a mother to a teenage son, and enjoys any new problem - the wackier the better.) In alternating chapters, Barb and Lois percentage real-life tales, mind-opening insights, and down-to-earth suggestion to motivate each person to work out past labels, deal with others with admire, and aid each one distinctive individual turn into his or her optimum self.  
      
Written with honesty, compassion, and ribald humor, Neurodiversity bargains reassurance and functional information for folks, educators, employers, LGBT households, and a person who loves anyone who's diversified. Readers will discover:
* The payoff of presuming competence and listening good (even to non-verbal people).
* Do's and don'ts for handling nervousness. (Do facilitate optimism. do not overprotect.)
* how one can support ADHD childrens excel, with no drugs. (Tips: restrict entry to games yet are not making unrealistic regulations on movement.)...and even more.    
"Autism is my prism, no longer my prison," Barb Rentenbach announces. A enjoyable tackle severe matters, Neurodiversity presents splendidly assorted views on realizing how varied brains imagine and maximizing our collective human strength.  
        
"This ebook is stuffed with hilarious, clean, and touching tales approximately utilizing adjustments in methods you are going to by no means think and aren't regularly PC...The key's acknowledging and dealing to appreciate what makes up your neurologically assorted mind and THRIVING in its complexities." --Emma Willmann, comic    

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