Aspergers Syndrome - What Teachers Need to Know {Tuesday's Treasures}

We have a few families in our homeschool group and within extended family who have been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome.  One of my missions has been to find books that assist in understanding Aspergers Syndrome.  There are so many books out there these days that it's difficult to find books that give encouraging information without technical information overload!

Asperger Syndrome What Teachers Need to Know

• Format Paperback | 128 pages
• Dimensions 138 x 212 x 12mm | 181.44g
• Publication date 15 Jun 2011
• Publisher JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
• Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
• Language English
• Edition Revised
• Edition statement 2nd Revised edition
• ISBN10 1849052034
• ISBN13 9781849052030

I love this book for it's simplicity and the way it elevates the positives of children with Asperger Syndrome.  Matt has spent hours reading through many books, speaking to families of children living with Asperger Syndrome and taught children with Asperger Syndrome.  He was encouraged to write a condensed book about what he has learned.  His aim is to provide the reader with a summary of the information currently available about Asperger Syndrome.  His book gives quick tips and practical ideas as well as thought provoking questions with insights to consider before you answer them.  His aim is to give the reader a good initial grounding on the subject of Asperger Syndrom and he definately has.

Table of Contents
Introduction.
1. What is Asperger Syndrome?
2. What signs might a child display?
3. What are some general strategies for the classroom?
4. What are some individual strategies for the pupil?
5. How can I help the pupil with AS to learn?
6. What about homework?
7. How do I help the child's stress?
8. What should the Teacher Aide be focusing on?
9. Who else in the school needs to know?
10. What should happen before the child changes class or school?
11. How can the wider school help?
12. Am I qualified to teach this child?
I want to know more - where should I start?
Further Reading. References. Websites. Resources.
Some common conditions associated with Asperger Syndrome.
Index.

If you have a child that you know with Asperger Syndrome or if your own child has been diagnosed, this book is well worth reading. This book is a quick and empowering read.

Blessings
Chareen

Here are some other resources we have been encouraged with:

• Can I Tell You About Asperger Syndrome? A Guide for Friends and Family
• The Spark: A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius and Autism by Kristine Barnett

The Spark {Tuesday's Treasure}

Around two years ago Nathaniel and I discovered that he sees the world a little differently than I do and it was causing a bit of stress for us both so we had some tests done and discovered that Nathaniel has Aspergers Syndrome.  In some ways it relieved some of the anxiety I had been feeling and in another way it created a whole raft of questions and fears.  Recently a good friend loaned me a book and encouraged me to read it ahead of anything else I was reading and read The Spark: A Mother's story of nurturing genius and autism.  I'm so very pleased that I did. This is a book I would love EVERY homeschooling family could read.  There is so much truth and depth to their journey that would bless every family all over the world.

The Spark : 

A Mother's Story of Nurturing, Genius and Autism

• Format: Paper back
• Number of Pages:304
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Publication Date:06 Feb 2014
• ISBN 10: 0241961815
• ISBN 13: 9780241961810
• Author Kristine Barnett

In many ways I really wish I could have read this book when my children were younger.  Kristine's view of life and children is truly inspirational.  Through reading The Spark I have been encouraged to really appreciate how God made each of my children.

Kristine encourages us as parents to support and nurture our children's passions no matter how trivial they seem to us.  It's by fully embracing our children where they are that we are able to release them into their full potential.

This book is a biographical account of Kristine and Michael and their first born son Jacob.  Kristine writing is like sitting down with a friend and her sharing her journey with you over a cup of tea.  You will laugh with them and you will cry at their very real and heart warming story.  This books is down to earth and real.  Kristine shares their struggles and their triumphs and encourages you the reader to enjoy and live life to it's fullest.  

Connect with Kritine and Jacob

• Kristine Barnett {Facebook}
• Kristine Barnett - Twitter
• The Spark - Website here you can find workshops, sports for Autism, 
• Jacob Barnett - Facebook
• Watch Jacob (Jake) Barnett Math and Science Prodigy on 60 Minutes on YouTube.
• Forget what you know | Jacob Barnett | TEDxTeen
• 'THE SPARK' - JACOB BARNETT INTV - BBC WORLD NEWS
• Tapping the Potential - Kristine Barnett

Blessings
Chareen

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Welcome to Tuesdays Treasures. I started these posts as a way of sharing great books in honour of my friend in New Zealand who would arrive with the treasures she had unearthed at her weekly trip to the library!

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