Recognising Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome

Recognising Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome is an accessible guide, offering information and guidance, self-help and coping strategies. It is illustrated throughout with personal quotes, vignettes, and anecdotes from clients with autism with whom the author has worked clinically.

The book captures the individual stories, quotations, and experiences observed in adult autism diagnostic services, woven with contemporary research, theory, and clinical insights. It outlines the history of the condition and the present criteria for obtaining a diagnosis. With exercises, tips, questionnaires, psycho-educational work, and advice sheets, this new edition also elucidates the female presentation of autism that has attained significance in recent times.

The book is deliberately aimed at a broad audience of people: those who have just received a diagnosis and want to know more, those who are considering seeking a diagnosis, family members, relatives, friends, and clinicians, including mental health workers, psychologists, support workers, and all those who work with autistic people.