Asperger's Rules!: How to Make Sense of School and Friends Paperback
Author: Blythe Grossberg - ISBN: 1433811278 - Language: English - Format: PDF, EPUB
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Grossberg provides an upbeat and supportive guide for readers with Asperger s, covering feelings and emotions, teachers, asking for help, and dealing with bullies...The invaluable advice should help readers navigate new challenges. --Publishers Weekly
This manual-workbook offers insights to readers with mild spectrum disorders on the general unwritten rules for dealing with teachers and classmates in school. With a mix of common scenarios, dialogue trees, bulleted lists, multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank self-tests, and brief analytical comments, Grossberg covers setting goals, demonstrating appropriate responses to behavioral or emotional triggers, using communication strategies, recognizing body language and other signals, coping with bullying, making friends, and (in a perfunctory, tacked-on final chapter) establishing personal hygiene and healthy life habits. Capped by a select set of annotated print and online resources, these guidelines and procedures will be helpful to their target audience though the frequent write-in features make the volume more suitable for individual than library use. --Booklist
As a clinical psychologist who works with middle- and high-school students diagnosed with Asperger s syndrome, Grossberg has the background and expertise to give advice on how to negotiate the world of the neurotypcial. The advice is straightforward, easy to understand, and solid. Each chapter includes a short test to help readers understand the importance of the material. The short quiz at the start of each chapter clues readers in to how they should relate to the upcoming information. The book includes sample dialogues and opportunities for readers to practice what they are learning. While this book is written specifically for youngsters on the Asperger s spectrum, it will be helpful for any children who struggle with making and keeping friends, dealing with bullies, or understanding unwritten rules in the classroom. Some young people may prefer to read this on their own, while others could certainly benefit from sharing the volume in a group and/or with an adult helper. --Wendy Smith-D Arezzo, School Library Journal
This manual-workbook offers insights to readers with mild spectrum disorders on the general unwritten rules for dealing with teachers and classmates in school. With a mix of common scenarios, dialogue trees, bulleted lists, multiple-choice or fill-in-the-blank self-tests, and brief analytical comments, Grossberg covers setting goals, demonstrating appropriate responses to behavioral or emotional triggers, using communication strategies, recognizing body language and other signals, coping with bullying, making friends, and (in a perfunctory, tacked-on final chapter) establishing personal hygiene and healthy life habits. Capped by a select set of annotated print and online resources, these guidelines and procedures will be helpful to their target audience though the frequent write-in features make the volume more suitable for individual than library use. --Booklist
As a clinical psychologist who works with middle- and high-school students diagnosed with Asperger s syndrome, Grossberg has the background and expertise to give advice on how to negotiate the world of the neurotypcial. The advice is straightforward, easy to understand, and solid. Each chapter includes a short test to help readers understand the importance of the material. The short quiz at the start of each chapter clues readers in to how they should relate to the upcoming information. The book includes sample dialogues and opportunities for readers to practice what they are learning. While this book is written specifically for youngsters on the Asperger s spectrum, it will be helpful for any children who struggle with making and keeping friends, dealing with bullies, or understanding unwritten rules in the classroom. Some young people may prefer to read this on their own, while others could certainly benefit from sharing the volume in a group and/or with an adult helper. --Wendy Smith-D Arezzo, School Library Journal
About the Author
Blythe Grossberg, PsyD, is a learning specialist in New York City who works to help children and adults with ADD to become more effective at school and at work.
DETAILS
- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Magination Press; 1 edition (May 15, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1433811278
- ISBN-13: 978-1433811272
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.1 x 0.3 inches
- Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,926 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #12 in Books > Teens > Education & Reference > Social Science
- #44 in Books > Teens > Social Issues
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As a middle school teacher, I've become more and more aware that many of my students seem to fall on the "spectrum." Whether I'm just more aware of these kids or whether there are actually more of them -- well, I'll leave that to the experts. But I know I need more insight into how kids with Asperger's think and see the world, and this book is a great help.
ASPERGER'S RULES lays out the challenges of everyday life, academic and social, for the kid with Asperger's, and provides practical, useful, effective strategies and scripts for dealing with them. Most importantly, Blythe Grossberg provides interpretation and translation of the unspoken and inferred rules of life as well. By shedding light on the emotional reasons for these rules, she gives them purpose and meaning, and doesn't simply expect an Asperger's kid to parrot words without understanding. This book will help kids express the appreciation and affection that they feel but don't know how to express.
Some chapters in the book are "Teachers and Asking for Help"; "The Unwritten Rules of the Classroom" (including body language); "Other Situations in School" (such as dealing with recess, lunch and gym); and "Healthy Habits" (including expectations for hygiene).
We teachers expect that a seventh grader doesn't need to be told, "It's important to speak with your teachers in polite ways that show you appreciate them", especially when so many of our Asperger students are otherwise so smart and don't miss a trick! But Grossberg doesn't take for granted that a student with Asperger's will realize that importance or know how to pull it off. She'll explain what those polite ways actually are, and what a student can and should say in all the situations at school that really matter.
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