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• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Contributors
• Foreword: Helping Autism with Knowledge of Human Nature
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• I.: BACKGROUND AND MEDICAL RESEARCH
• 1. What is Autism?
• 2. Possible Causes
• II.: AN ANTHROPOSOPHIC UNDERSTANDING OF AUTISM
• 3. Anthroposophy and Child Development
• 4. Autism seen Anthroposophically
• III.: INTERVENTIONS AND ALLEVIATION
• 5. Some More Mainstream Interventions
• 6. The Curative Educational Approach
• 7. A Curative Education Case Study: James
• 8. Autism and the Senses
• 9. Intensive Interaction Case Study: Anna
• 10. Art Club Case Study: Ralph, Mark and Oliver
• 11. Ways Forward
• IV.: SOURCE MATERIAL FROM HANS MÜLLER-WIEDEMANN
• 12. Early Diagnosis and Practical Advice for Parents
• 13. The Topsy-Turvy World: An Anthroposophic Understanding of Autism in Early Childhood
• 14. The Curative Educational School: Observations and Aims
• 15. Curative Educational Therapy: Exercises in the Realm of the Four Body Senses
• APPENDIX
• 1. Additional Anthroposophic Background
• 2. Further Therapies and Medical Treatments
• Useful Organisations
• Bibliography
• Copyright