The Jumbled Jigsaw

The Jumbled Jigsaw exposes autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) not as single entities but as a combination of a whole range of often untreated, sometimes easily treatable, underlying conditions. Exploring everything from mood, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders to information processing and sensory perceptual difficulties, including dependency issues, identity problems and much more, Donna demonstrates how a number of such conditions can combine to form a 'cluster condition' and underpin the label 'autism spectrum disorder'. Donna Williams encourages and empowers families to look at what they can do to change their child's environment to address anxiety, overload and other issues. She also gives carers the necessary information to navigate the booming autism marketplace and demand the right tools for the job. The author also challenges professionals to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to identifying and treating the cluster conditions that make up an autism spectrum diagnosis, and to improve service delivery to those in need. The Jumbled Jigsaw is a call to modern society to take responsibility and accept diversity. It is written in a very human and user-friendly way for parents and for Auties and Aspies themselves, but it is also aimed at carers, professionals, policy-makers and service providers.

Auteur

Donna Williams was born in Australia in 1963. She was assessed at age two as psychotic, labelled disturbed and tested for deafness throughout childhood before being diagnosed as autistic in 1990. Today she is an internationally best-selling author with nine published books, an artist, singer-songwriter and emerging screenwriter. One of the most well-known people with autism in the world, Donna is a renowned international public speaker, a qualified teacher and has worked as an autism consultant since 1995.

Texte du rabat

• Written by a well-known author and leading thinker in the autism field
  
  • Suitable for use as a course text
  • Insists on the provision of appropriate strategies, approaches and treatments for ASDs
  • Challenges misconceptions about ASDs and invites an overhaul of the way professionals address these conditions

Résumé
This book exposes autism spectrum disorders as a combination of a whole range of often underlying conditions. Exploring everything from mood, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive and tic disorders to information processing and sensory perceptual difficulties and more, Donna demonstrates how such conditions can combine to form a 'cluster condition'.

Contenu
Part 1: Getting Oriented. Introduction. Part 2: Into the Depths. 1. Fuel System and Electrical Problems: Health and Autism. 2. Different Ways of Navigating the World: The System of Sensing Versus Interpretations. 3. Issues of Overload: Being Mono and Delayed. 4. Experiencing the World Rather Differently: Sensory-Perceptual Issues. 5. Losing Control of One's Body: Impulse-Control Problems. 6. Strange Emotional Spaces: Mood-Regulation Problems. 7. Invisible Cages: Anxiety Issues. 8. Being Joined at the Hip: Dependency Issues. 9. Bad Parenting or Bad Match? Boundary Issues. 10. A Matter of Perspective: Trauma, Neglect, Abuse and Grief. 11. Who Am I and Which Side Am I On?: Identity Issues. Part 3: The Fallout. 12. The Fallout. Appendix 1: Current Professionals and Services. Appendix 2: Autism Spectrum Cluster Checklist. Appendix 3: Referral List Based on Checklist. References. Index