Text Books

I'm not an expert. I'm a social philosopher. As a sociologist, teacher and researcher, I try to avoid talking about pathology and look at processes. I take a stance closer to that of social psychology and raise the issues and perspectives that scientists then explore. My text books have become foundation texts in special education and psychology courses and have changed the treatment, education and educational environments of people on the autistic spectrum quite dramatically over the last ten years.

Because the fruit salads within Autism are often normal processes with the volume turned way up, many of the issues I write about give non-autistic people surprising insights into themselves.

In Autism; An Inside Out Approach, I have written about sensory perceptual disorders and differences, cognitive and information processing differences and how to build autism friendly environments and communication.

In Autism and Sensing; The Unlost Instinct, I wrote about sensing and intuition, the body mind versus the intellectual mind and the 'unknown knowing' of some who may appear meaning deaf, meaning blind, dissociated and disconnected.

In Exposure Anxiety; The Invisible Cage, I have written about the most challenging and difficult to comprehend of all anxiety disorders and strategies to combat the compulsive avoidance, diversion and retaliation responses that entrap the person within its 'invisible cage'.

In The Jumbled Jigsaw; An Insider's Approach to the Treatment of Autism Spectrum 'Fruit Salads', I wrote about autism as a 'fruit salad', what the pieces of 'fruit salad' can be, how to recognise each, and the often low and no cost strategies which address each.