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Summary:
- "With the sensibility of Oliver Sacks and Kay Redfield Jamison, psychologist Thomas Armstrong offers a revolutionary perspective that reframes many neuropsychological disorders as part of the natural diversity of the human brain rather than as definitive illnesses. Neurodiversity emphasizes their positive dimensions, showing how people with ADHD, bipolar disorder, and other conditions have inherent evolutionary advantages that, matched with the appropriate environment or ecological niche, can help them achieve dignity and wholeness in their lives."-- [Provided by publisher]
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Table of Contents:
- Neurodiversity : a concept whose time has come
- The joy of the hyperactive brain
- The positive side of being autistic
- A different kind of learner
- The gift of mood
- The advantages of anxiety
- The rainbow of intelligences
- Thinking in a different key
- Neurodiversity in the classroom
- The future of neurodiversity.
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Language Notes:
- Item content: English
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General Notes:
- Previously published in 2010 as: Neurodiversity: discovering the extraordinary gifts of autism, ADHD, dyxlexia, and other brain differences.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-256) and index.
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Physical Description:
- xiii, 274 pages ; 24 cm
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Call Numbers:
- RC455.4.B5 A745 2011
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ISBNs:
- 9780738215242 (pbk.)
0738215244 (pbk.)
9780738213545 (alk. paper)
0738213543 (alk. paper)
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Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2009048552
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OCLC Numbers:
- 760085215