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Reaching the Young Autistic Child
by Sibylle Janert

Reclaiming Non-Autistic Potential Through Communicative Strategies and Games

A Practical Resource-Book For Parents, Nursery-Workers, Teachers And Others Working With Under-Fives

Free Association Books, 2000
ISBN 1 85343 498 1 9 (pb)
163 pages £14.95/$25.00

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This book is a collection of ideas, activities, strategies and games to encourage adult behaviours that help the child's development, because the sense of helplessness when faced with the child's unresponsiveness is often overwhelming and needs addressing in a practical way.

Findings from recent infant research, attachment theory and psychoanalytic constructivism suggest that in every human being, even in the most autistic child, there will be healthy non-autistic aspects that want to be reached, and which we need to help the child develop.

This book aims to shed light on some the difficult issues and feelings encountered by all those involved with an autistic child and to help them recover from the trauma and despair engendered by the diagnosis 'autistic', 'autistic spectrum disorder', 'autistic features' or 'Asperger's Syndrome'.