A little light reading….

by Seana Smith on Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Have you heard of the magazine “Autism Asperger’s Digest”?

This Texas-based bi-monthly is published by  Future Horizons, one of the largest publishers of autism books and materials in the world.    The magazine aims to provide “real life information for meeting the real life challenges of ASD” and it’s just reached its 10th birthday.

You can read more about the magazine here:

http://www.autismdigest.com/

And more about Future Horizons here:

http://www.fhautism.com/

I subscribed to the magazine last year after having read it sporadically in the past.  I do like it a lot, there’s a great deal of variety with lots of information plus plenty of thoughtful and well-written stories from parents.

Here are some of the articles from the current edition.

* Step by step teaching guideline for parents of significantly impaired children with ASD.

* Vision therapy: ideas for school and home.

* A Column from Ellen Notbohm

* Early Intervention … 10 years later!

* Temple Grandin’s column titled “Learning never stops.”

Some of the adverts made me feel a bit distressed eg one for hyperbaric chambers encouraging the reader thus:  ”Don’t put your miracle off any longer.  Give us a call today.”

Yuck!  That’s too exploitative for me… not that I have anything against hyperbaric chambers (I know there are the subject of much research just now) nor indeed miracles… but people who PROMISE miracles… harumph!

But I’m a believer in that old maxim:  ”Take what you like and leave the rest” and I do find a lot to like in this magazine.