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Abstract
Autistic Planet is a magical world where all trains run exactly to time, where people working in offices have rocking chairs, and where all kids dream of winning the chess World Cup. Join us on a journey to this alternative reality, where being different is ordinary, and being "typical" is unheard of!
Full of colour illustrations and written in child-friendly rhyme, this book is ideal for children aged 6 and over.
Jennifer Elder is assistant editor in a book publishing company. She and her husband have two sons, one of whom has ASD. You can read more about their family in the memoirs Sixpence House and Not Even Wrong. Jennifer is the author of Different Like Me: My Book of Autism Heroes, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Written by a mother of a child with autism, this delightful children's storybook addresses some of the issues and differences in autism through the eyes of a little autistic girl who describes the planet where she is from... This book is ideal to help young children to see differences caused by conditions like autism in a positive way.
Aukids Magazine
Readers are invited into an alternative reality, where being different is ordinary and being "typical" is unheard of. It is full of colour illustrations and written in child-friendly rhyme. Not surprisingly, Autistic Planet was a gold medal winner in the Moonbeam Children's Book awards.
Autism eye
Autistic Planet is a delightful book to read with primary aged children. It is engaging and entertaining, providing a platform for further discussion or simply to read as a charming story about a magical, make believe world.
Good Autism Practice
Written by Jennifer Elder and illustrated by her and Marc Thomas, it is a colourful portrayal of the alternative reality experienced by those with ASD... A useful addition to any school library.
Special Children
This beautifully illustrated book is written in child-friendly rhyme and describes a 'perfect autistic world' that many autistic children as well as their siblings, peers and adults around them, are likely to recognise. The fantasy world that is portrayed may help readers to identify behaviours, likes and dislikes associated with autism, thereby serving as a useful starting point for further conversations about this.
Youth in Mind
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| List of figures, tables and boxes | |||
| Abbreviations | |||
| Acknowledgements | |||
| Foreword ROBERT CHAMBERS | |||
| 1. General introduction | |||
| Part 1: The scaling-up of participatory approaches: opportunities | |||
| and dangers | |||
| 2. Introduction to Part 1 | |||
| 3. Internalizing and diffusing the PRA approach: the case of | |||
| Ethiopia | |||
| DEREJE WORDOFA | |||
| Learning and internalizing | |||
| Diffusing the methodology and influencing others | |||
| New ways forward? | |||
| 4. Scaling-up PRA: lessons from Vietnam | |||
| BARDOLF PAUL | |||
| Background to the Forestry Cooperation Programme | |||
| A systems approach to institutionalization | |||
| 5. The rush to scale: lessons being learnt in Indonesia | |||
| NILANJANA MUKHERJEE | |||
| Country-wide participatory planning: how it happened | |||
| What we can learn from the experience | |||
| 6. Scaling-down as the key to scaling-up? The role of | |||
| participatory municipal planning in Bolivia's Law of | |||
| Popular Participation | |||
| JAMES BLACKBURN and COSTANZA de TOMA | |||
| Scaling-down, Bolivian style | |||
| New roles for local institutions: the key to making the LPP work | |||
| State-sanctioned participatory planning: a contradiction in terms? | |||
| NGO-State relations and the LPP | |||
| A realignment of political forces | |||
| Participatory social assessment in an economy in transition: | |||
| strengthening capacity and influencing policy in Estonia | |||
| JOHN THOMPSON | |||
| The context | |||
| The challenge | |||
| The participatory social assessment (PSA) | |||
| Findings of Phase I | |||
| Learning from the past, building for the future | |||
| 8. Scaling-up of participatory approaches through | |||
| institutionalization in Government Services: the case of | |||
| agricultural extension in Masvingo Province, Zimbabwe | |||
| JURGEN HAGMANN, EDWARD CHUMA and KUDAKWASHE MURWIRA | |||
| Concept and approach for participatory innovation development | |||
| and extension | |||
| Strategy for institutionalizing the participatory approach | |||
| Lessons learnt from experience | |||
| Conclusions and recommendations | |||
| 9. Scaling-up or scaling-down? The experience of | |||
| institutionalizing PRA in the slum-improvement | |||
| projects in India | |||
| KAMAL KAR and SUE PHILLIPS | |||
| Background | |||
| Problems of scaling-up | |||
| Efforts to scale down and create small examples of sustained | |||
| community action | |||
| Lessons learnt and conclusions | |||
| Part 2: Organizational change: the key to institutionalizing | |||
| participation? | |||
| 10. Introduction to Part 2 | |||
| 1 1. The participatory watershed development implementation | |||
| process: some practical tips drawn from OUTREACH in | |||
| South India | |||
| JAMES MASCARENHAS | |||
| Stage 1: preparation time and the creation of self-help groups | |||
| Stage 2: participatory planning processes and procedures | |||
| Stage 3: the implementation plan | |||
| Stage 4: withdrawal from the micro-watershed | |||
| Conclusion | |||
| 12. Introducing participatory learning approaches in the | |||
| Self-help Support Programme, Sri Lanka | |||
| MALLIKA SAMARANAYAKE | |||
| National Development Foundation (NDF), partner of Self-SP | |||
| Institutional changes resulting from the wholesale adoption of | |||
| participatory methodologies 1990-94 | |||
| Key factors emerging from the programme's reorientation | |||
| Constraints generally faced by NGOs when attempting to | |||
| institutionalize participatory approaches | |||
| 13. Participatory management or community-managed | |||
| programmes? Reflections from experience in Somaliland | |||
| SAM JOSEPH | |||
| New roles for development managers | |||
| Rethinking project management | |||
| 14. Participatory environmental management: contradiction of | |||
| process, project and bureaucracy in the Himalayan Foothills | |||
| ANDREW SHEPHERD | |||
| Recent paradigm shifts | |||
| Participation and Indian bureaucracy | |||
| The question of targets in participatory projects | |||
| How to merge project activities with people's priorities | |||
| Lessons for paradigm shifters | |||
| 15. Taking on the challenge of participatory development at | |||
| GTZ: searching for innovation and reflecting on the | |||
| experience gained | |||
| HEINRICH EYLERS and REINER FORSTER | |||
| Background to GTZ's experience | |||
| Some lessons from GTZ-supported projects | |||
| Reorientations and challenges for GTZ as an organization | |||
| 16. Participatory Approaches in Government Bureaucracies: | |||
| Facilitating Institutional Change | |||
| JOHN THOMPSON | |||
| Recognizing the need for institutional change | |||
| Training for transformation? | |||
| The institutional learning and training cycle | |||
| Charting the course from participatory rhetoric to participatory | |||
| reality | |||
| Part 3: Where do we go from here? | |||
| 17. Introduction to Part 3 | |||
| 18. Current challenges facing participatory rural appraisal | |||
| ROBERT LEURS | |||
| Challenges facing PRA at the individual level | |||
| Challenges facing PRA at the colllrnunity level | |||
| Challenges facing PRA at the organizational level 128 | |||
| Challenges facing PRA at the projectlprogramme level 129 | |||
| Challenges facing PRA at the policy level 131 | |||
| Challenges facing PRA at the donor level 132 | |||
| Conclusions 133 | |||
| 19. Reflections and recommendations on scaling-up and | |||
| organizational change | |||
| IDS WORKSHOP 135 | |||
| Enabling conditions for scaling-up 135 | |||
| Dangers of rapid scaling up for PRA practice 137 | |||
| Recommendations for quality PRA training and field practice 138 | |||
| Recommended actions for communities and local groups, NGOs | |||
| and donors 142 | |||
| Recommended actions for those involved in shifting organizations | |||
| to more people-centred and participatory approaches 1 44 | |||
| 20. Towards a learning organization - making development | |||
| agencies more participatory from the inside | |||
| IDS WORKSHOP 145 | |||
| Understanding the issue 145 | |||
| Procedures 147 | |||
| Systems and Structures 148 | |||
| 21. The Scaling-up and Institutionalization of PRA: lessons and | |||
| challenges | |||
| JOHN GAVENTA 153 | |||
| Micro-macro linkages 153 | |||
| The dimensions of scaling-up 154 | |||
| Scaling-out: increasing the types of quality of participation 156 | |||
| Scaling-up: increasing the quantity of participation 159 | |||
| Institutional change 161 | |||
| Summary and questions for future research 163 | |||
| 22. Conclusion | |||
| JAMES BLACKBURN 167 | |||
| References 179 |