Autism

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Autism: A Holistic Approach

Educating and caring for an autistic child is a severely difficult task and is too often associated with frustration and disappointment. As a result, the inner development of children with autism is at times considered beyond the reach of parents and caretakers.

This book challenges such assumptions, exploring case studies in which therapy based on a holistic approach has led to significant improvements in behavior and social integration of autistic children. With an extended holistic program, autistic children discover inner self-awareness and self-recognition, leading to human relationships and social skills.

The authors go into detail about both their own practical experience and the findings of others in the field. This new, third edition covers recent developments in diagnostic methods and approaches to treatment, including new case studies and a new chapter on the sensory aspect of autism and Sensory Integration Therapy.

Well-researched and movingly written, this book has an essential, positive message for everyone involved in the care and education of autistic children.

C O N T E N T S:

Contributors
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments

I: Background and Medical Research

1. What Is Autism?
2. Possible Causes

II: An Anthroposophic Understanding of Autism

3. Anthroposophy and Child Development
4. Autism Seen Anthroposophy

III: Interventions and Alleviation

5. Some More Mainstream Interventions
6. The Curative Educational Approach
7. A Curative Educational Case Study (Bob Woodward)
8. Autism and the Senses (Mari Sterten)
9. Intensive Interaction Case Study: Anna (Paula Jacobs)
10. Art Club Case Study: Ralph, Mark, and Oliver (Réka Tóth)
11. Ways Forward

IV: Source Material from Hans Müller-Wiedemann

12. Early Diagnosis and Practical Advice for Parents
13. The Topsy-turvy World: An Anthroposophic Understanding of Autism in Early Childhood
14. The Curative Educational School: Observations and Aims
15. Curative Educational Therapy: Exercises in the Realm of the Four Body Senses

Appendix

1. Additional Anthroposophic Background
2. Further Therapies and Medical Treatments
3. Useful Organizations

Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Marga Hogenboom, M.D., lives and works at the Camphill Rudolf Steiner schools near Aberdeen and is a director of the Camphill Medical Practice.

Dr. Bob Woodward was born in 1947 in Gloucester, UK. Having studied at state and Steiner schools, he became a coworker at the Sheiling School in Thornbury, a center of the Camphill Community, based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner. He remained in the Camphill Movement, living with and teaching children with special educational needs, for some forty years before retiring in 2012. He took a special interest in understanding autism in children and young people. At the age of 46, Bob received an MEd degree from Bristol University, followed by an MPhil at the age of 50, and a PhD from the University of the West of England at the age of 64. As well as being a qualified educator, he is a spiritual healer and the author of several books. He has been married for forty-two years and has five grown children and many grandchildren.

Additional information

Weight 22 oz
Dimensions 6 × 1 × 9 in
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ISBN13

9781782500001

ISBN10

1782500006

Published

September 2013

Format

Paperback

Pages

352

Publisher

Floris Books

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