Books

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• The Complete Guide to Aspergers Syndrome

  The Complete Guide to Aspergers Syndrome

  Tony Attwood

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• Interpretive Description

  Interpretive Description

  Sally Thorne

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  This is excellent reading. Sally Thorne is insightful, offering clear steps to help scaffold your research while providing a pragmatic focus that applies all research back to the clinical practice realm.

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• Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

  Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics

  bell hooks

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• Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

  Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom

  Bell Hooks

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  This book heightened my awareness of engaged pedagogy, including its strengths and challenges. hooks is a progressive and radical educator who challenges the status quo, offering a dissident voice and relentless in her quest for change. She eagerly and unabashedly challenges conventional pedagogy. This is a compelling read.

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• Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

  Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope

  Bell Hooks

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  This book was transformative as it presented a critical perspective on teaching and learning. It spoke to the importance of having a love of teaching and a love of students, opening the self up to being present in the classroom, sharing a passion for learning, and cultivating critical thinking with students.

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• Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome: Integrating Multiple Perspectives

  Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome: Integrating Multiple Perspectives

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  This book helped me understand Asperger's more in-depthly from multiple perspectives. However, pathologizing discourses prevail re: autism and need challenging. Baron-Cohen proposes autism spectrum conditions vs. disorders or syndromes.

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• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult Asperger Syndrome

  Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Adult Asperger Syndrome

  Valerie L. Gaus

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  This book is easy to read, and helpful. The care plans are concise. However, individuals with Asperger's present differently and there are varying degrees of the syndrome. Thus, the therapy depends on the situation and the individuals' capabilities.

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• Autism And Asperger Syndrome

  Autism And Asperger Syndrome

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  Fantastic phenomenology/narrative of autism and Asperger's Condition. Uta Frith provides excellent insight into the condition and brings forth the first ever English translation of Asperger's paper. The strengths as well as the challenges of autism conditions are identified.

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• Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

  Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition

  Paulo Freire

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  Seminal book! Paulo Freire discusses consciousness-raising through dialogue, how to transcend the oppressor-oppressed relationship, and how liberation from hegemonic practices can be achieved.

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• Peace and Power: creative Leadership for Building Community

  Peace and Power: creative Leadership for Building Community

  CHINN

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  A wonderful book written from a humanistic perspective, emphasizing collaboration, clear communication, and compassion in group settings. Heart politics is a new term entering the lexicon, as compassion and justice, peace and power merge to create transformative change.

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• Prenatal Testosterone in Mind

  Prenatal Testosterone in Mind

  Simon Baron-cohen

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• Autism and Asperger Syndrome

  Autism and Asperger Syndrome

  Simon Baron-cohen

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I'm reading

• Embracing Asperger?s: A Primer for Parents and Professionals

  Embracing Asperger?s: A Primer for Parents and Professionals

  Richard Bromfield, PhD

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