1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910785155003321

Autore

Lawrence Clare

Titolo

Successful school change and transition for the child with asperger syndrome [[electronic resource] ] : a parents guide / / Clare Lawrence

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010

ISBN

1-282-76724-0

9786612767241

0-85700-358-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (164 p.)

Disciplina

371.94

Soggetti

Autistic children - Education

Education - Parent participation

Asperger's syndrome in children

Students, Transfer of - United States - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

FOREWORD; Introduction; Chapter 1 Planning the Move; 1.1 Identifying the problem; 1.2 Planning ahead - the '2-year plan'; 1.3 Choosing the new school; 1.4 Involving wider autism professionals; 1.5 Preparing your child; Chapter 2 Before Moving On; 2.1 Collecting your data. What has worked up to now?; 2.2 Sharing information about your child; 2.3 Visiting the new school; 2.4 Collecting support materials; 2.5 Identifying a named adult and 'safe haven'; 2.6 Identifying sensory difficulties and 'flagging them up' to the new school; 2.7 Identifying useful technologies

2.8 Identifying key skills to be developed (and habits to be broken) and working them into the Education Plan2.9 Encouraging the 'named adult' to visit the current school; 2.10 Working out a 'transition time-line' with clear identification of responsibilities for all involved; 2.11 Dealing with rumours; 2.12 Adapting current strategies that work for supporting transition; 2.13 Utilizing existing AS community of the school; 2.14 Familiarizing your child with the school, and with the concept of the school; Chapter 3 The Holidays

3.1 Looking at strategies to minimize distress at leaving the old



school3.2 Providing preparation and support during the holiday period; 3.3 Addressing practical issues; 3.4 Taking on a project; 3.5 Identifying and practising the different social 'rules' and expectations of the new school; Chapter 4 The First Days; 4.1 Considering a flexi-start; 4.2 Using support; 4.3 Checking his needs have been understood; 4.4 Providing practical and organizational support; 4.5 Monitoring and supporting homework; 4.6 Helping with management of workload; 4.7 Facilitating communication

4.8 Ensuring that the 'simple' supports are in place (and remain so)4.9 Accessing transition support from 'Asperger community' of school; 4.10 Evaluating the first days; Chapter 5 Into the Future; Appendix: Transition Check-list; FURTHER READING

Sommario/riassunto

This book provides parents of children with AS with advice on preparing their child to move to a new school, and make the transition as smooth as possible. Strategies covered include working out a transition time-line, identifying a named adult and 'safe haven' at the school, and effective communication between parents, teachers and support staff.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910795729703321

Autore

Hohwy

Titolo

Being reduced [[electronic resource] ] : new essays on reduction, explanation, and causation / / edited by Jakob Hohwy, Jesper Kallestrup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

9780191549557

019154955X

9786611825478

1-281-82547-6

0-19-154955-X

0-19-170597-7

Descrizione fisica

viii, 312 p. : ill

Classificazione

08.35

Altri autori (Persone)

HohwyJakob

KallestrupJesper

Disciplina

110

Soggetti

Philosophy of mind

Brain

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Reduction and embodied cognition : perspectives from medicine and psychiatry / Valerie Gray Hardcastle and Rosalyn W. Stewart -- Real reduction in real neuroscience : metascience, not philosophy of science (and certainly not metaphysics!) / John Bickle -- Reduction in real life / Peter Godfrey-Smith -- Group agency and supervenience / Christian List and Philip Pettit -- Reduction and reductive explanation : is one possible without the other? / Jaegwon Kim -- CP laws, reduction, and explanatory pluralism / Peter Lipton -- Must a physicalist be a microphysicalist? / David Papineau -- Why there is anything except physics? / Barry Loewer -- Multiple realization : keeping it real / Louise M. Antony -- Causation and determinable properties : on the efficacy of colour, shape, and size / Tim Crane -- The exclusion problem, the determination relation, and contrastive causation / Peter Menzies -- Mental causation and neural mechanisms / James Woodward -- Distinctions in distinction / Daniel Stoljar -- Exclusion again / Karen Bennett.