Uniquely human : a different way of seeing autism

ISBN: 9781982193898 (trade paperback)
Physical Description: print xviii, 346 pages ; 22 cm
Edition: First Simon &amp; Schuster trade paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2022.
Copyright: &copy;2015

Prizant, Barry M. (author.). Fields-Meyer, Thomas, (author.).

Summary: Autism is usually portrayed as a checklist of deficits, including difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. This perspective leads to therapies focused on ridding individuals of "autistic" symptoms. Now Dr. Barry M. Prizant, an internationally renowned autism expert, offers a new and compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism don't aim at fixing a person by eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individual's experience and what underlies the behavior.