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Women and Girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age

Sarah Hendrickx
Barcode 9781849055475
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Release Date: 21/05/2015

Genre: Medicine
Sub-Genre: Society & Culture
Label: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Contributors: Judith Gould (Foreword by)
Language: English
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Understanding Life Experiences from Early Childhood to Old Age. Written for professionals, women on the spectrum and their families, this is a cradle to grave overview of girls and women with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) at each stage of their lives. The book explores how women with ASD experience diagnosis, childhood, education, adolescence, employment, sexuality, pregnancy and motherhood, and aging.

The difference that being female makes to the diagnosis, life and experiences of a person with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has largely gone unresearched and unreported until recently. In this book Sarah Hendrickx has collected both academic research and personal stories about girls and women on the autism spectrum to present a picture of their feelings, thoughts and experiences at each stage of their lives.

Outlining how autism presents differently and can hide itself in females and what the likely impact will be for them throughout their lifespan, the book looks at how females with ASD experience diagnosis, childhood, education, adolescence, friendships, sexuality, employment, pregnancy and parenting, and aging. It will provide invaluable guidance for the professionals who support these girls and women and it will offer women with autism a guiding light in interpreting and understanding their own life experiences through the experiences of others.