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01-01-2015 | Book Review

Asperger’s and Girls by Tony Attwood, Temple Grandin, Teresa Bolick, Catherine Faherty, Lisa Iland, Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Ruth Snyder, Sheila Wagner, and Mary Wrobel

Future Horizon, Arlington, TX, 2006, pp. 162, Paperback $14

Auteur: Roald Oien

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 1/2015

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For readers interested in gender differences, those found in children with Asperger’s syndrome are more pronounced than those between normally developed children. We know the number of girls with ASD is about 1 in 189 (Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network 2014), and the number of girls with Asperger’s may be higher than we assume. After having read the book I am sure that many of the issues this book addresses regarding girls with Asperger’s, also could be generalized towards girl with different autism spectrum disorders, which makes the book interesting also for parents and professionals dealing with other diagnoses on the spectrum. …

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Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network Principal Investigators. (2014). Prevalence of autism spectrum disorders, 11 sites, United States, 2010. MMWR Surveillance Summaries, 63(2), 1–21.

Titel: Asperger’s and Girls by Tony Attwood, Temple Grandin, Teresa Bolick, Catherine Faherty, Lisa Iland, Jennifer McIlwee Myers, Ruth Snyder, Sheila Wagner, and Mary Wrobel
Future Horizon, Arlington, TX, 2006, pp. 162, Paperback $14
Auteur: Roald Oien
Publicatiedatum: 01-01-2015
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 1/2015
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-014-2209-4

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