The author shares how she helped her son overcome symptoms of autism. Includes specific skills and drills, materials needed to implement them, and the specific areas each is designed to develop and improve.

"Roman Scott recovered from all 45 symptoms of autism. Now here are the 78 Skills and Drills his mother used to help him, plus 12 more! With this early learning program, you, too, can help your child to signficantly develop and improve his or her ..."--Page 4 of cover.

There have been huge advances in our ability to diagnose autism and in the development of effective interventions that can change children’s lives. In this extraordinary book, Lynn Kern Koegel, a leading clinician, researcher, and cofounder of the renowned Autism Research Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara, combines her cutting-edge expertise with the everyday perspectives of Claire LaZebnik, a writer whose experience with a son with autism provides a rare window into the disorder. Together, they draw on the highly effective “pivotal response” approach developed at the center to provide concrete ways of improving the symptoms of autism and the emotional struggles that surround it, while reminding readers never to lose sight of the humor that lurks in the disability’s quirkiness or the importance of enjoying your child. From the shock of diagnosis to the step-by-step work with verbal communication, social interaction, self-stimulation, meltdowns, fears, and more, the answers are here-in a book that is as warm and nurturing as it is authoritative.

A mother reassures her child about the wind, lightning, and thunder when a storm passes through.

Presents a collection of traditional fairy tales which have been retold to illustrate compassion toward others.

Hugo and Shirley Jackson award-winning Peter Watts stands on the cutting edge of hard SF with his acclaimed novel, Blindsight Two months since the stars fell... Two months of silence, while a world held its breath. Now some half-derelict space probe, sparking fitfully past Neptune's orbit, hears a whisper from the edge of the solar system: a faint signal sweeping the cosmos like a lighthouse beam. Whatever's out there isn't talking to us. It's talking to some distant star, perhaps. Or perhaps to something closer, something en route. So who do you send to force introductions with unknown and unknowable alien intellect that doesn't wish to be met? You send a linguist with multiple personalities, her brain surgically partitioned into separate, sentient processing cores. You send a biologist so radically interfaced with machinery that he sees x-rays and tastes ultrasound. You send a pacifist warrior in the faint hope she won't be needed. You send a monster to command them all, an extinct hominid predator once called vampire, recalled from the grave with the voodoo of recombinant genetics and the blood of sociopaths. And you send a synthesist—an informational topologist with half his mind gone—as an interface between here and there. Pray they can be trusted with the fate of a world. They may be more alien than the thing they've been sent to find. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Roman, an experienced Alaskan crabber, finds himself stranded on a mysterious island in the cold water outside of Bristol Bay. On the island Roman finds himself face-to-face with unknown forces as he struggles to overcome his unfortunate circumstances. Inspired by the works of Neil Gaiman and Albert Camus, The Blood of Man sheds light on the questions and internal challenges of life, death and consciousness.