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Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant (07 Edition)
by Daniel Tammet

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One of the worlds only 50 living autistic savants is the first to tell his compelling and inspiring life story, and explain how his incredible mind works. While Tammets brain has amazed scientists for years, readers will be moved by this remarkable mans... (read more)
 
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and
by Bruce Perry

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Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry has treated children faced with unimaginable horror: genocide survivors, witnesses, children raised in closets and cages, and victims of family violence. Here he tells their stories of trauma and transformation.... (read more)
 
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Play Therapy

Play Therapy Rev Edition
by Virginia M Axeline

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"The most brilliant and intuitive, as well as the clearest written, work in this field. It is unpretentious yet clearly the most authoritative work that has been published."<BR>NORMAN CAMERON, Ph.D.<BR>Professor of Psychiatry<BR>Yale... (read more)
 
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Art Therapy

Writing with Multiple Intelligence
by Edna Kovacs

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A creative writing manual that draws on recent research into multiple intelligences, including Body/Kinesthetic, Interpersonal, Intrapersonal, Logical/Mathematical, Musical/Rhythmic, Naturalist, Verbal/Linguistic, and Visual/Spatial. Besides providing... (read more)
 
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Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
by John Elder Robison

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The brother of Augusten Burroughs (author of the bestselling memoir Running with Scissors) has created an entertaining and often surprising memoir about growing up with Asperger's Syndrome. Whether you know someone on the autism spectrum or you're... (read more)
 
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Thinking in Pictures: And Other Reports from My Life with Autism
by Temple Grandin

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Temple Grandin, Ph.D., is a gifted animal scientist who has designed one third of all the livestock-handling facilities in the United States. She also lectures widely on autism—because Temple Grandin is autistic, a woman who thinks, feels, and... (read more)
 
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All Cats Have Asperger Syndrome
by Kathy Hoopmann

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At first, this book appears to be a cat lover's gift book; however, it is a delightful, clever book about the many ways that children with AS and cats are alike. The author does a great job relating useful information to readers of all ages in the... (read more)
 
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The Transgender Child Transgender Child: A Handbook for Families and Professionals a Handbook for Families and Professionals
by Stephanie Brill

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This comprehensive first of its kind guidebook explores the unique challenges that thousands of families face every day raising their children in every city and state. Through extensive research and interviews, as well as years of experience working in... (read more)
 
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Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys
by Ph.D. and Michael Thompson, Ph.D. Dan Kindlon

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In Raising Cain, Dan Kindlon, Ph.D., and Michael Thompson, Ph.D., two of the country's leading child psychologists, share what they have learned in more than thirty-five years of combined experience working with boys and their families. They reveal a... (read more)
 
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by Rachel Simmons

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by Alice Miller

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by William Pollack

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by John Bowlby

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by Cait Irwin

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