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Safety Skills for Asperger Women

How to Save a Perfectly Good Female Life

Liane Holliday Willey
Foreword by Tony Attwood

Paperback: £12.99 / $18.95

2011, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 160pp
ISBN: 978-1-84905-836-0, BIC 2: VS VFJD

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Life with Asperger Syndrome can be a challenge at the best of times, and trials and tribulations that neurotypicals take in their stride can leave Aspies perplexed and unsure of how to solve problems and keep themselves safe, both physically and emotionally.

Liane Holliday Willey explores the daily pitfalls that females with AS may face, and suggests practical and helpful ways of overcoming them. The focus throughout is on keeping safe, and this extends to travel, social awareness, and general life management. With deeply personal accounts from the author's own experiences, this book doesn't shy away from difficult issues such as coping with bullying, self-harm, depression, and eating disorders. The positive and encouraging advice gives those with AS the guidance to safeguard themselves from emotional and physical harm, and live happy and independent lives.

This book will be essential reading for all females with Asperger Syndrome, their friends and families, and all professionals whose work brings them into contact with females with AS.

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Best-selling JKP author Liane Holliday Willey (Pretending to be Normal, Safety Skills for Asperger Women, and others) is credited with coining the term ‘Aspie’ to describe individuals with Asperger’s Syndrome. Here, Dr. Holliday Willey weighs in on the semantics debate within the autism community over the term. I am a psycholinguistics professor. I like to...

Request a copy of the new US catalog of resources on Autism, Asperger Syndrome and Related Spectrum Conditions

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Our brand new US Autism Catalog is now available. With over 500 titles in print on Autism, Asperger Syndrome and related spectrum conditions, the JKP catalog is an amazing resource for parents, teachers, professionals and individuals with ASDs as well. To receive a free copy of the catalog, please sign up for our mailing list...

Join us at these upcoming National Autistic Society events featuring JKP authors!

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The Who Cares? conference will examine the unique challenges facing adults with autism as they age, and present best practice from experts in the field including JKP authors Dr Wendy Lawson, author of The Passionate Mind and Understanding and Working with the Spectrum of Autism, and Professor Digby Tantam, author of Autism Spectrum Disorders Through the Life...

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JKP authors Liane Holliday Willey and Jennifer Cook O’Toole win coveted GRASP award!

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Congratulations to Liane Holliday Willey (pictured left) and Jennifer Cook O’Toole who have both been honoured by GRASP (the Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership) with the organisation’s 2012 Distinguished Spectrumite Medal. The award will be presented to them at a gala event today in New York City. Jessica Kingsley Publishers is proud to publish...