The book presents a complete training guide, organized in 10 stages, to discover the most useful and effective strategies for organizing a trip with and for people with Autistic Condition (AC) and their family members.

Before leaving for a trip – and breaking away from the patterns of everyday life – people with autism and their families prepare their “luggage” down to the smallest detail: they plan everything well to be ready to deal with some inevitable accidents along the way. As a practical and functional guide, the book provides advice for creating an experience that is pleasant and at the same time “controllable”.

«If we want to help people with AC, be they children, teenagers or adults, to live better we must be aware that their lives are dotted with experiences of anxiety which can sometimes become deep anguish, fear and sadness».

This book isn’t just about travel. It is the book itself that represents a journey to discover a world different from the one we are usually used to: the “other” world of neuro-divergence. It is a world that, although “different”, should be included in ours to make experiences accessible to all.

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Book features:

Each chapter begins with an introduction on the topic covered in the following pages and on the points that will be touched upon.

The pages contain boxes in which the experience of autistic people is told.

There are in-depth boxes on the topics covered in the various chapters.

Key concepts are highlighted and images proposed to better fix them.

The volume contains parts of text to generate sensible reflections on the topic covered.

Useful tools are provided to create fun and “controllable” trips.

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THE AUTHORS

Cinzia Raffin, psychologist and psychotherapist, mother of a young adult with autism, she founded Fondazione Bambini e Autismo Onlus in 1998, an organization recognized by the Ministry of Health, which over the years has become one of the most cutting-edge organizations in caring for people with Autism Spectrum Disorders .

Alessandra Covertini, psychologist, she graduated from the University of Padua and has worked for years as a member of the multidisciplinary team of therapists within the Bambini e Autismo Onlus foundation, dealing with rehabilitation programs for children, teenagers and adults with autism of all levels of severity.