@article{467455,
      author = {Grandin, Temple. and Panek, Richard.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/467455},
      title = {The autistic brain thinking across the spectrum /  [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,},
      abstract = {This book is an account of the latest science of autism.  Since the author started writing and speaking about autism,  the number of people diagnosed with it has skyrocketed; but  so has the research that is transforming our understanding  of the autistic brain. Now she brings her singular  perspective to a journey through the autism revolution.  Weaving her own experience with remarkable new discoveries,  she introduces the neuroimaging advances and genetic  research that link brain science to behavior, even sharing  her own brain scans from numerous studies. We meet the  scientists and self-advocates who are introducing  innovative theories of what causes, how we diagnose, and  how best to treat autism. She highlights long-ignored  sensory problems and the treatments that might help them,  and warns of the dangers of politics defining the diagnosis  of autism spectrum. Most exciting, in the science that has  begun to reveal the long-overlooked strengths conferred by  autism, she finds a route to more effective mainstreaming  and a way to unleash the unique advantages of autistic  people. From the "aspies" in Silicon Valley to the  five-year-old without language, the author understands the  true meaning of the word spectrum.},
      recid = {467455},
      pages = {1 online resource (viii, 240 p.) :},
      address = {Boston :},
      year = {2013},
}