Learning the Hidden Curriculum: The Odyssey of One Autistic Adult - Softcover

Endow, Judy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1934575933 ISBN 13: 9781934575932

Publisher: Future Horizons, 2012

Synopsis

The hidden curriculum is one of the most important things to learn! Drawing from her personal experiences, Judy Endow, author of the Hidden Curriculum Calendars, provides a myriad of hidden curriculum items that pertain to most areas of adult life. In relating to how she personally has learned to successfully maneuver social interactions, she also presents a framework for developing the ability to quickly asses a situation and take steps to avoid making social blunders BEFORE they have been committed. Learning the Hidden Curriculum: The Odyssey of One Autistic Adult includes strategies, such as Pause and Match, Laugh Along, Recognized and Expand Black-and-White Thinking, and It Is Not Necessary to Report All My Truths. Judy's framework enables readers to learn to create their own social 'rules'; and, as a result, live more successful lives. The fact that the book is written by an autistic person who has learned by trial and error makes it all the more valuable. Foreword by Brenda Smith Myles, PhD.

About this title

About the Author

Judy Endow, MSW, maintains a private practice in Madison, Wisconsin, providing consultation for families, school districts and other agencies. Besides having autism herself, she is the parent of three now grown sons, one of whom is on the autism spectrum. Judy does workshops and presentations on a variety of autism-related issues, is part of the Wisconsin DPI Statewide Autism Training Team and a board member of both the Autism Society of America, Wisconsin Chapter and the Autism National Committee. Her first book, Making Lemonade, Hints for Autism's Helpers (CBR Press, 2006), shows how Judy has used the lemons of her autism to 'make lemonade' in her own life. Paper Words, Discovering and Living with My Autism (AAPC Publishing, 2009) was 2010 International Book Award Finalist in Autobiographies/Memoirs. Judy has also received 2010 Autism Society Media Excellence Award for her DVD, The Power of Words: How we talk about people with autism spectrum disorders matters! (AAPC Publishing, 2009). In addition, she has authored the Hidden Curriculum Calendar for Older Adolescents and Adults (AAPC Publishing 2010, 2011). Outsmarting Explosive Behavior, A Visual System of Support and Intervention for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders (AAPC Publishing, 2009) and Practical Solutions for Stabilizing Students With Classic Autism to Be Ready to Learn: Getting to Go (AAPC Publishing, 2011) are Judy's most recent books. She brings a great depth of understanding and compassion to all the work she does.

Review

I love this book! It offers practical, thoughtful, and illuminating advice from an older autistic adult. Her user-friendly system for avoiding social embarrassment helps people with autism decode the social world, categorize the type and severity of social blunders and, as the author puts it, 'figure out proactive strategies to cut down on social embarrassment.' The book is well written, easy to read, and (at times) belly-laughingly funny. I heartily recommend LEARNING THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM: THE ODYSSEY OF ONE AUTISTIC ADULT to people with autism from preteens through adults, to the professionals who work with them and the families who love them. --Dorothy Siegal, MPA, project director, ASD Nest Support Project, Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University

LEARNING THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM: THE ODYSSEY OF ONE AUTISTIC ADULT provides readers with a perspective that is critical to anyone who works with, cares for or educates a person with autism. Before we can apply the knowledge that research and technology have given us, we must first hear the stories that offer insight into how people with autism think. Through her personal journey to understand a neurotypical world, Judy is able to educate the educators on how people with autism think as well as provide a guide to people with autism on how they too can learn to crack the code of the 'hidden curriculum.' --Daniel Parker, MA/MS, autism consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction

LEARNING THE HIDDEN CURRICULUM is a wonderful book designed to teach adults with autism spectrum disorders positive strategies to help guide them through an ever-changing and often confusing social world. Judy Endow not only provides hundreds of examples of these 'unstated rules,' she also teaches ways that have helped her 'crack the code.' She does all of this in a humorous, positive way, concentrating on the fact that even NTs (neurotypicals) would benefit from these strategies. --Debra A. Kern, MS, counselor, Overland Park, Kansas

About this edition

• Publisher: Future Horizons
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1934575933
• ISBN 13: 9781934575932
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112