Autism: The Facts (The ^AFacts Series)

by Simon Baron-Cohen and Patrick Bolton

Book Overview

Coping with a diagnosis of autism can be a troubling and confusing experience for parents. Ignorance of this bewildering disorder can provoke difficult decision-making for parents and physicians alike. What causes autism? What happens to children with autism when they grow up? Does autism run in families? What kind of educational setting is best? In this accessible, comprehensive book, the authors have discovered the questions on the minds of parents...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192623273
• ISBN13: 9780192623270
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 0.3" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Bravo for the authors, not for the publisher

An excellent and straightforward primer on the hows and whys of autism, written by two of the leading autism researchers. If you're new to the subject, then this overview is a good way to get up to speed. I do have one complaint: [$] for a 113 page paperback is extortionate, plain and simple -- especially when it's largely being charged to the parents of disabled children. As a writer myself, I know that this is not the author's fault... it's the publisher. OUP, you should be ashamed of yourselves. Next edition, do the decent thing and drop it down to $...Still, don't let this complaint put you off. If you have a family member or acquaintance who has recently been diagnosed with autism, don't hesitate: just buy it.