**This is your final, but I wanted to post it now so that you could plan in advance. You can read the book or listen to it in an audio version. I think it it worthwhile to gain the perspective of a person with ASD. The author was diagnosed later in life, and speaks about the gifts and challenges of living with ASD.
The book chosen for this course was written by an autistic adult, and the purpose of the reading is to gain the perspective from an autistic person and to reflect on their experiences.
Robison, J. E. (2007). Look me in the eye: my life with Asperger’s. Crown Publishers. ISBN-10: 0307396185, ISBN-13: 978-0307396181
Please feel free to add statements about how your personal or clinical experience informed your responses. You will write a book reflection, answering the following prompts:
- What was one major obstacle faced by the author?
- How did the author overcome this obstacle?
- If you were a service provider for the author, describe, in detail, one area that you feel he would have most benefitted from in terms of therapeutic intervention and how you would address this/these skill(s).
- What do you admire most about the author’s experience? Why?
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