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Finding Kansas: Living
and Decoding Asperger’s Syndrome
by Aaron Likens
Perigee Trade
1st edition (April 3, 2012)
Ten Things Every Child with
Autism Wishes You Knew
by Ellen Notbohm
Future Horizons
1st edition (January 1, 2005)
While this is Aaron’s unique story, he writes
with a style that is easily relatable, insightful
and humorous. He portrays himself as an average, every-day man, living in the middle class
Midwest. He provides amazing insight into his
day-to-day life, sharing small successes and huge
breakthroughs, like his self-discovery of building and maintaining personal relationships. With
every experience Aaron shares, he reveals how
his inner thoughts process the incoming information and the associations that his brain makes.
Aaron’s amazing and unique perspective provides inspiration and hope for a bright future for
those with autism spectrum disorders such as
Asperger’s syndrome.
What makes this book so practical and useful is
how the whole of autism is concisely broken into
ten very important and relevant “bullet points”
and then expanded upon on each of those points
chapter by chapter. Ten Things enlightens the
reader on ten characteristics of children on the
autism spectrum without specifically defining every child. The material is presented in
an insightful, compassionate, and sometimes
humorous way that helps to give us a peek into
autism from a child’s point of view. In this way
the reader can glean helpful insight that enables
a better understanding of autistic children.
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