Girls with Asperger’s syndrome/high functioning autism
and girls with AD/HD – Pedagogic, social and medical aspects
In Sweden as well as internationally very little is written about girls with Asperger’s syndrome as a social disability. Even if relatively few are diagnosed with this neuropsychiatric diagnosis it might be more common than we may believe.
The book describes Asperger girls’ special problems. It gives suggestions for efforts to make these girls visible, to help them to break their isolation and alienation, and that they should develop, with preserved self-esteem due to their difficulties.
This book is for all who, in their work or daily life, meet girls with Asperger’s syndrome and girls with problems that resemble these, among else teachers, recreation leaders, social workers, and not at least parents and relatives.
This book about girls with Asperger’s syndrome builds on a bachelor thesis named Girls with high-functioning autism/Asperger’s syndrome and girls with AD/HD regarding pedagogic and medical aspects in their school situation; social, cognitive, and emotional development, written by Brigitte Oxelqvist, bachelor of special pedagogics.
It contents as well personal childhood material written by two women with their own experiences having Asperger’s syndrome, among them Sandra Petojevic, Bachelor of Arts and Visual studies, author and illustrator, and a foreword by Christina Gustavson, PhD and a specialist doctor, and author.