Asperger's What Does It Mean to Me?: A Workbook Explaining Self Awareness and Life Lessons to the Child or Youth with High Functioning Autism or Asper

"I bought this book a week after my son, Aged 8 was finally diagnosed with Aspergers. We are working through this together and it has great exercises where the child can identify what they are feeling and it has really given me some insight into my sons 'world'. I have found that allowing my son to dictate the order and pace of working through the book has allowed him to start feeling more in control and he often refers to parts of the book when encountering a particular issue that day. Would recommend to anyone who is in early stages of a diagnosis."
~ Written on 2008-04-20

"I bought this book and am enamoured with it. I have recommended it to my son's Psychiatric Nurse (who has also bought it) and to my local NAS group. The language is simple and so easily defined to follow. The fact that it has been written by a member of the TEACCH team in North Carolina is obvious once you start to read. My son is suddenly starting to learn that it is ok to be different and to understand why he sees certain things in a different light, and I am learning so much about him that I didn't know before. I highly recommend this book"
~ Written on 2007-07-10

"This is a superb book, although it is a little American in language. It starts with a clear, child friendly description of the condition. It is then split in to different chapters such as Ways of Thinking, People, School etc each section is subdivided so for example Ways of Thinking has pages headed Special Interests, Details, Styles of learning, Perfection, Routines and Familiarity, Changes. The child is asked to highlight or circle the items on lists which apply to him. (There is space to add other items if you wish.) You can then talk about these and the child decides if these are important to him and if so he can mark each page and therefore keep a record which would explain his personality to other people, or that he can go back to for reference. Each chapter also comes with a parent guide for more detail. I have learnt many things about my Aspergers child, and perhaps more importantly he has learnt things about himself and we have had fun doing so. This has very obviously been written by someone with an incredible knowledge of Aspergers children, at no point have I encountered any anxiety from my son whilst working through this book, in fact it has been a totally enjoyable experience."
~ Written on 2005-03-21