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Index
Cover Page
Other Books
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Disclaimer
Contents
Introduction
1. A parent’s heartache—ever present
Chicken nugget #1: HFA or AS? What’s the diff?
2. What do I tell people about autism?
Chicken nugget #2: What do we do with the good intentions of others?
3. IEPs and those elusive goals
Chicken nugget #3: Autism and gray
4. Charting growth
Chicken nugget #4: Living with fear
5. Understanding Jon’s way of understanding: Or, Lost in Translation is not just a movie title
Chicken nugget #5: “Sometimes it’s all Greek to me too!”—explaining terminology
6. What to take on vacation
Chicken nugget #6: On perseveration—“Stop beating that dead horse!”
7. What about anger? Just because your child has a disability, doesn’t make you a doormat!
Chicken nugget #7: “I love you, but we are not connected at the hip!”
8. Straight talk for parents: “We need to be like the Energizer Bunny, we must keep going and going…”
Chicken nugget #8: Birthday parties—so simple, yet so impossible
9. An interview with the school counselor
Chicken nugget #9: “Is there a lesson in these socks?”—dealing with tactile issues
10. A bully by any other name is still a bully
Chicken nugget #10: When parents hit a brick wall in communication
11. An interview with an expert on autism—Dr. B.J. Freeman
Chicken nugget #11: Literally speaking
12. Choosing your battles: Fighting the system
Chicken nugget #12: “Get off my back! Please!”—understanding rudeness
13. An interview with a parent expert—Emily Perl Kingsley
Chicken nugget #13: Stopping to note the successes—a trip to the dentist
14. Planning for our own demise: An interview with an attorney
Chicken nugget #14: Changing my view
15. Resources remix: Useful information and resources
Chicken nugget #15: “We must see differently!”
16. Explaining their differences to our teens
Chicken nugget #16: Thoughts on normal
17. A case for empathy
Chicken nugget #17: “But do I have to fix him?”
18. The s-e-x word meets the a-u-t-i-s-m word
Chicken nugget #18: Waiting for the other shoe to drop—optimistically being pessimistic
19. Charting behaviors
Chicken nugget #19: Three steps forward, one step back—not the latest dance craze
20. Family members and autism: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Chicken nugget #20: Finding hope at the library
21. Autism and religion
Chicken nugget #21: Angels by my side
22. Shadow dancing
Chicken nugget #22: Serendipity—the sauce for those nuggets!
Epilogue
References
Subject Index
Author Index
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