The Man-Eating Sofa: An Adventure with Autism and Social Communication Difficulties: An Adventure with Autism and Social Communication Difficulties

ISBN-13: 9781032076348 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 130 str.

Plum Hutton

Opis

This entertaining story, suitable for readers aged 8-14, explores some of the challenges faced by pupils with social communication and interaction difficulties in mainstream schools. It highlights the stress and anxiety that they may feel and identifies strategies that can be used to support them.

Recenzje

"The Man-Eating Sofa is a delightful story, empathetically written for school pupils, teaching staff and adults to gain a better understanding of autism, which is one of the aims of the National Autism Strategy (June 2021). Whilst light-heartened and filled with humour, it does not detract from the seriousness of autism as a neurodevelopmental condition."

Karin Twiss, Senior Educational Psychologist and Strategic Lead for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Conditions

 

"Plum Hutton makes the learning process dynamic, and understood within a real context, using a delightful story that children (8-12 years) and families will enjoy. The first parts of the story reflect the 'too frequent' and unnecessary challenges that many autistic children and their families will likely have experienced before gaining the necessary support and understanding. The story is positive and upbeat, and the experience of reading it ... promotes the compassion, understanding, thought and optimism that are such key ingredients for supporting and embracing neurodiversity."

Caro Strover, Educational Psychologist

 

"The book has a really engaging and strong storyline with brilliantly fleshed-out characters and gets across the confusion and frustration and the sheer 'thinking differently' of autism so well, as well as the wider struggles for the family. I especially enjoyed Lara's excitement at building her sofa - and then the testing out of the sofa by the teachers, which I had to read three times as I was laughing so much.

I can't tell you how helpful your book and guide have been in making the behaviour of autistic friends and colleagues so much more explicable to me and for providing such clear direction for improving the ways in which I can communicate with them too."

Elizabeth Ord, Parent

Spis treści

The Man-Eating Sofa: An Adventure with Autism and Social Communication Difficulties