Girls and autism : educational, family and personal perspectives /
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2019.
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Table of Contents:
- PART 1 Introduction
- Where are all the autistic girls?: an introduction / Barry Carpenter, Francesca Happé and Jo Egerton
- What does research tell us about girls on the autism spectrum? / Francesca Happé
- PART 2 Girls and autism : the lived experience
- The advantages of autism: a personal journey / Katie Buckingham
- Raising the voice of the lost girls / Carrie Grant
- Introducing What we want the world to know / The Girls of Limpsfield Grange School and Sarah Wild, Head Teacher
- Black girls and autism / Venessa Bobb
- Girls Group: respecting the female identity of girls with autism in a school setting / Sharonne Horlock
- PART 3 Girls, autism and education
- Leadership issues in the current educational climate / Rona Tutt
- Building a specialist curriculum for autistic girls / Sarah Wild
- Included or excluded?: school experiences of autistic girls / Jane Friswell
- Girls who can't help won't: understanding the distinctive profile of Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) and developing approaches to support girls with PDA / Ruth Fidler
- PART 4 Autism, adolescence and social networks
- What do we know about the neuroscience of autism in girls and women? / Meng-Chan Lai
- Mental health and girls on the autism spectrum / Tina Rae and Grace Hershey
- Friendships on the autism spectrum / Felicity Sedgewick and Liz Pellicano
- Help us make our own way: talking to autistic women and girls about adolescence and sexuality / Gillian Loomes
- PART 5 Autistic girls looking to the future
- Girls for the future: transitions and employment / Jo Egerton, Helen Ellis and Barry Carpenter
- Supported teachers supporting girls: a whole-school model of support for the education of young people with autism / Sarah-Jane Critchley
- Run the world, girls: success as an adult autistic female / Rachel Townson and Carol Povey
- Epilogue: a call for action / Wenn Lawson.