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"""This friendly, inviting, uplifting, and bracingly honest book is nothing less than a blueprint for a more humane future in which everyone is given a chance to live up to their full potential."" Steve Silberman, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Searching for academic and vocational programs for their post-high school autistic son, Lawson and Swearingen found a distinct lack of services. They soon realized that if they wanted an appropriate program for their son, they would have to build it themselves. In Share the Road they recount their personal experiences and the stories of their students as together they create a pioneering vocational training program that empowers autistic individuals. All proceeds from the sale of this book support the work of Autistry Studios. ""This is a must-read, never-too-soon-to-read book that supports parents as they envision how their autistic child can become his/her best self as he/she grows up."" - Bryna Siegel, PhD, Executive Director, Autism Center of Northern California"

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"""I love this positive innovative approach to working with autistic individuals."" - Temple Grandin, author, Visual Thinking ""This friendly, inviting, uplifting, and bracingly honest book is nothing less than a blueprint for a more humane future in which everyone is given a chance to live up to their full potential. By sharing their struggles as well as their triumphs, Lawson and Swearingen have laid out a clear path for others who want to create places to support young neurodivergent people in their transition to productive, engaged, and confident adulthood."" - Steve Silberman, author, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity ""This is a must-read, never-too-soon-to-read book that supports parents as they envision how their autistic child can become his/her best self as he/she grows up. What I found most admirable is Autistry's recipe for independence for the neurodiverse: to learn to challenge, educate, take care of, and control yourself while finding a way to meaningfully engage with your community. Janet and Dan write in a vernacular that will make total sense to any parent who has worked to unravel his or her child's learning and seemingly idiosyncratic interests. Teachers, therapists, and autism researchers like myself will quickly 'get' that Janet and Dan's discussion of needing to go where the child is at is working with 'instrumental motivation, ' that the 'primary aspects of autism' they describe are what I have written about as innate primary disabilities in the neuropsychology of autism, and that their 'secondary aspects' are what someone like me writes about as failed self-accommodations, tertiary deficits-tantrums, obsessive, repetitive, self-injurious behavior-and so on. There is no need to resort to the jargon of neuropsychology or behaviorism to apprehend the very successful and important principles that underpin the machinery of Autistry."" - Bryna Siegel, PhD, Executive Director, Autism Center of Northern California ""As a parent of an autistic adult, I've found that good programs for neurodivergent adults are few and far between. Janet Lawson and Dan Swearingen's experience as parents of an autistic adult and Lawson's as a therapist led to their creation of a successful program at Autistry Studios using project-based learning. This fun and easy-to-read book is a guide for how similar programs could be created by others in their own communities; not only would these programs nurture neurodivergent adults, they would challenge them to be the best they can be."" - Debra Muzikar, author, The Art of Autism: Shifting Perceptions and The Art of Autism: Shattering Myths ""This book is an absolute gift to the neurodivergent community. In its pages are insights, observations, and interventions that will help families, educators, and therapists improve the lives of neurodivergent individuals as well as guide service providers in the creation of programs based on their strengths and interests."" - Mary Jane Burke, Marin County Superintendent of Schools, 1994-2022"

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Janet Lawson is a psychotherapist with a background in film and theater. In addition to her B.A. degree in Film Studies from UC Berkeley and an MS degree in Counseling Psychology from Dominican University, Janet has an MS in Library and Information Science from Indiana University. She brings all her skills and experience to work as she continues to develop Autistry Studios, a therapeutic makerspace for autistic teens and adults. Janet is the mother of an autistic son. Dan Swearingen is the parent of an autistic child and a Mentor/Maker/Nonprofit Administrator in San Rafael, California. Dan has an MS in Physics from Cal. State Northridge and an MA in Astronomy from Indiana University. Dan worked for many years in the San Francisco Bay Area as a programmer and manager of programmers before he co-founded Autistry Studios in 2008.

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