The Autistic Alice

The Autistic Alice

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  • Author: Joanne Limburg
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781780373430
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 72

There are two acts of recovery in this book - one of a lost brother, and another of a lost self. Joanne Limburg commemorates both in her third collection, The Autistic Alice. In its title-sequence she uses Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass to explore her own experiences as a girl and young woman. Growing up with undiagnosed Asperger's, she often identified with Alice, a logical and curious child adrift in an arbitrary world. Collaging lines and phrases drawn from the two Alice books, she creates a disturbingly effective language to express the nature, discomfort and alienation of autistic experiences. In her neurodiverse verse, a text can become a rabbit-hole to another world, or a mirror. The poems that make up the book's opening sequence, The Oxygen Man, originally published as a pamphlet, were written in response to the death of Limburg's younger brother, a brilliant chemist who took his own life in 2008. They follow her as she visits the mid-Western town where he lived, worked and died; range back over their shared childhood; and look ahead as she tries to work out what it means to be the one who stays behind.


Autism in a Decentered World

Autism in a Decentered World

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  • Author: Alice Wexler
  • Publisher: Psychology Press
  • ISBN: 1317594320
  • Category : Education
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 270

Autistic people are empirically and scientifically generalized as living in a fragmented, alternate reality, without a coherent continuous self. In Part I, this book presents recent neuropsychological research and its implications for existing theories of autism, selfhood, and identity, challenging common assumptions about the formation and structure of the autistic self and autism’s relationship to neurotypicality. Through several case studies in Part II, the book explores the ways in which artists diagnosed with autism have constructed their identities through participation within art communities and cultures, and how the concept of self as ‘story’ can be utilized to better understand the neurological differences between autism and typical cognition. This book will be of particular interest to researchers and scholars within the fields of Disability Studies, Art Education, and Art Therapy.


Alice’s Evidence

Alice’s Evidence

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  • Author: Robert B. Waltz
  • Publisher: Robert B. Waltz
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Biography & Autobiography
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 199

This replaces the earlier Looking Autism in the Face: Two New Perspectives on Autism. This is personal; it is the expanded combination a pair of items I wrote about autism. Part of it looks at the relationship between Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, and marshals the evidence that Dodgson was not in lust after Alice, but rather was an autistic who formed an autistic friendship with her; the rest examines six noteworthy who were afflicted with “music and mathematics” autism and shows what they accomplished, and how we should understand such people. The whole is intended to demonstrate the difficult and complicated emotions I call “autistic friendship” and trouthe. Dedicated to Catie Jo Pidel, to Elizabeth and Patricia Rosenberg, and to “Sarah Jane,” all of whom taught me lessons.


The Things We Cannot Say

The Things We Cannot Say

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  • Author: Kelly Rimmer
  • Publisher: Harlequin
  • ISBN: 1488096783
  • Category : Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 476

The New York Times bestseller—for fans of All the Light We Cannot See! From the bestselling author of Truths I Never Told You, Before I Let You Go, and the The Warsaw Orphan, Kelly Rimmer’s powerful WWII novel follows a woman’s urgent search for answers to a family mystery that uncovers truths about herself that she never expected. “Fans of The Nightingale and Lilac Girls will adore The Things We Cannot Say.” —Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author In 1942, Europe remains in the relentless grip of war. Just beyond the tents of the refugee camp she calls home, a young woman speaks her wedding vows. It’s a decision that will alter her destiny…and it’s a lie that will remain buried until the next century. Since she was nine years old, Alina Dziak knew she would marry her best friend, Tomasz. Now fifteen and engaged, Alina is unconcerned by reports of Nazi soldiers at the Polish border, believing her neighbors that they pose no real threat, and dreams instead of the day Tomasz returns from college in Warsaw so they can be married. But little by little, injustice by brutal injustice, the Nazi occupation takes hold, and Alina’s tiny rural village, its families, are divided by fear and hate. Then, as the fabric of their lives is slowly picked apart, Tomasz disappears. Where Alina used to measure time between visits from her beloved, now she measures the spaces between hope and despair, waiting for word from Tomasz and avoiding the attentions of the soldiers who patrol her parents’ farm. But for now, even deafening silence is preferable to grief. Slipping between Nazi-occupied Poland and the frenetic pace of modern life, Kelly Rimmer creates an emotional and finely wrought narrative. The Things We Cannot Say is an unshakable reminder of the devastation when truth is silenced…and how it can take a lifetime to find our voice before we learn to trust it. Don’t miss Kelly Rimmer’s newest novel, The Paris Agent, where a family’s innocent search for answers brings a long-forgotten, twenty-five-year-old mystery featuring two female SOE operatives comes to light! For more by Kelly Rimmer, look for Before I Let You Go Truths I Never Told You The Warsaw Orphan The German Wife


Teaching Music to Students with Autism

Teaching Music to Students with Autism

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  • Author: Alice M. Hammel
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • ISBN: 0190063203
  • Category : Music
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 257

Teaching Music to Students with Autism is a comprehensive practical guide for music educators who work with students with autism. Authors and veteran music educators Alice M. Hammel and Ryan M. Hourigan offer an approach centered in inclusion designed for music educators, music teacher educators, and all those who have an interest in the education of students with autism. In this second edition, the authors offer fully up-to-date information on the diagnosis of autism, advocating for students and music programs, and creating and maintaining a team-approach when working with colleagues. A significant portion of the book is focused on understanding the communication, cognition, behavior, sensory, and socialization challenges inherent in students with autism and ways to structure classroom experiences and learning opportunities for all students. A chapter of classroom snapshots (vignettes) written by teachers in the field of music education provides additional opportunities to transfer information to 'real life' situations. Finally, the book offers a chapter of print and web resources for further study.


I'm Not Alice, I'm Alice

I'm Not Alice, I'm Alice

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  • Author: Beverly Tucker
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780984921492
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 138

Based on a true story, this book relates one family's experience of dealing with an autistic child and their struggle with the complications that arise for each of them. It is first and foremost a tribute to all who, on a daily basis, confront the challenges and rewards of living with autism. It is not intended as a scientific treatise, a textbook, or a "how to" deal with autism. It is an appeal for awareness of this mystifying disorder, the need for critical research, and acceptable solutions for autistic children who become autistic adults.


Different Is Good

Different Is Good

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  • Author: Lucy Martin
  • Publisher: Hubble & Hattie
  • ISBN: 9781787117198
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

The story of Alice the Aspiesaurus draws on the author's personal experiences to give children a positive message about autism. An autistic dinosaur called Alice is finding it hard to make friends at her school, and we learn about some of the difficulties that Alice has, such as finding busy places scary, but also about some of the positives of having autism, like having a good memory. Along the way, Alice meets an older Aspiesaurus called Alvin, who helps her to see her differences as a good thing. Alice then has the confidence to befriend the other dinosaurs and use her amazing brain to help them. Different is Good will appeal to all children with its relevant message, easy to read story, and fun, colourful illustrations of dinosaurs. Children who have autism themselves can greatly benefit from this book, which explains why they may feel different, and reassures them that differences are a good thing.


Angelina and Alice

Angelina and Alice

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  • Author: Katharine Holabird
  • Publisher: Simon and Schuster
  • ISBN: 1534495274
  • Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 32

Angelina and her best friend Alice discover the importance of teamwork when their acrobatics are the hit of the gymnastics show at the village fair.


Everyday Hero

Everyday Hero

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  • Author: Kathleen Cherry
  • Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
  • ISBN: 1459809831
  • Category : Juvenile Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 163

When a new friend challenges Alice, who has Asperger’s, to step outside her comfort zone, Alice decides to revise her rules in this novel for middle readers.


Kids Like Us

Kids Like Us

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  • Author: Hilary Reyl
  • Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
  • ISBN: 0374306281
  • Category : Young Adult Fiction
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 289

A tender, smart, and romantic YA novel about a teenage boy on the autism spectrum who learns he is capable of love.