As I was catching up on some blog reading today, I came across a book review over at Whitterer on Autism that I was very excited to see.
The review was of a book called From Anxiety to Meltdown by Deborah Lipsky, and the reason I was so excited is that I saw Deborah speak last year at the National Autism Conference in State College, PA.
Deborah is a woman who was diagnosed with high-functioning autism as an adult and has added author, comedian and public speaker to her extensive list of accomplishments and roles in life. The talk is about an hour and is well worth the listen. She is extremely well-spoken and very funny, plus I think you will learn a lot from what she has to share about her experiences.
Here is the link to the archived webcast:
http://streams.wpsu.psu.edu/103-Closing_Keynote08062.html
(When I watched it again earlier, the sound didn’t always quite match up with the picture, but that may just have been my internet connection as it cleared up a few minutes in.)
Just in case the link doesn’t work, it came from the list of webcasted programs from the 2010 conference at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/autism/webcasting.htm. Deborah was the closing keynote speaker, so her presentation is listed at the very bottom of the page.
Enjoy!
I'm a mom with Asperger's raising an amazing son with autism, which means I'm basically the case manager/advocate/cheerleader/chauffeur. The rest of the time, you can usually find me with my nose in a book!
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thanks for sharing
Sounds wonderful to watch
Funny, I was just reading that post yesterday and thought I needed to get that book. Thanks for the link. I’ll have to check it out.
Trish,
I just watched the video and I loved Deborah’s sense of humor. I am going to go to the other site to read about her book. Thank you for sharing this!