TY - BOOK AU - Tantam,Digby TI - Can the world afford autistic spectrum disorder?: nonverbal communication, asperger syndrome and the interbrain SN - 9781846429361 AV - RC553.A88 T37 2009eb U1 - 616.85882 PY - 2009/// CY - London, Philadelphia PB - Jessica Kingsley Publishers KW - Child & Developmental Psychology KW - bicssc KW - Autism KW - Nonverbal communication KW - Asperger's syndrome KW - Asperger Syndrome KW - psychology KW - Autistic Disorder KW - Nonverbal Communication KW - Social Adjustment KW - fast KW - Coping With Disability KW - Electronic books KW - UK eLD e-books KW - IeDuTC N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; Chapter 1. What is nonverbal communication, and how does it affect us? -- Chapter 2. What is the importance of gaze and shared attention? -- Chapter 3. What do people make of nonverbal communication? --Chapter 4. What is the evidence that impaired nonverbal communication is the fundamental problem inautistic spectrum disorder? -- Chapter 5. Is an impairment of nonverbal communication a brain problem? -- Chapter 6. What are the consequences of living with an impairment in nonverbal communication? -- Chapter 7. Nonverbal communication as a tool to understnding and moving forward -- Chapter 8. Can society afford people with an ASD, revisited; Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) N2 - Tantam offers an overview of the current theories on nonverbal communication and how it shapes neurotypical social behaviour, and the evidence for it being impaired in people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Personal accounts are combined with scientific information that is accessible to the general reader UR - https://www.123library.org/redirect/?bid=2625&mode=wayfless&entity_id=https://idp.hse.ie/openathens ER -