Teaching at home : a new approach to tutoring children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome / Olga Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holland, Olga, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Autistic children--Education.

Autistic children.

Home schooling.

Holland, Billy, 1993-.

Holland, Billy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (129 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Jessica Kingsley, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Faced with the apparent inability of her autistic son Billy to learn and socialize with other children at school, Olga Holland decided to teach him at home. This book explains the author's approach, focused on adapting to the demands of Billy's atypical mind and respecting his vivid imaginative world while attracting and retaining his attention.

Contents:

Cover

Teaching at Home: A New Approach to Tutoring Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome

Contents

Introduction

Prologue

Part I The Journey to the Aristotle School

1 Billy grows up

2 Face to face with autism

3 Making the decision

4 The deal with the district

5 Setting up a school at home

6 Homework

Part II Adjusting to a Non-Typical World

7 In the debris of two minds

8 Where are you, Billy?

9 Are you with me?

10 Minding the "D" words

11 Eye language

12 Body language

13 Attention!

Part III A Teacher's Strategies

14 Connecting the world

15 On acquiring knowledge

16 Remember?

17 The five-senses approach

18 English as a step-language

19 Every person has a story

Part IV Afterthoughts and Milestones

20 In search of humor

21 Why Aristotle?

22 Milestones

Epilogue

INDEX.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

9786610262137

9781280262135

1280262133

9781846421266

1846421268

OCLC:

62704135