With this workbook, Vermeulen, a counselor and educationalist who works with children and adults on the autism spectrum, outlines a program to help children, teens, and adults with autism spectrum disorders understand themselves and their diagnosis and gain self-knowledge and self-confidence about how to manage it. The workbook contains theoretical information on autism, then a practical manual for use with worksheets, which are on the CD-ROM for this edition, along with games, evaluation forms, and illustrations. This edition has three new chapters on self-image, psychoeducation, and the Socratic method as empowering for people with autism; discussion of components like denial of diagnosis; and more for younger children. It proposes an explanation of autism as a social disability and has suggestions for ways to evaluate the use of the workbook and information about the target groups, aims, and methods for measuring impact. The chapter on working with the book has been revised, as have the worksheets, and new ones have been added, such as on sensory problems. It has description of using the workbook with peers of a pupil with autism, siblings, and adults with autism with average to above-average intelligence. The practical manual is also new, and the CD-ROM has adaptations for siblings and young children, examples of simplified worksheets on character and the brain, new worksheets on the inside and outside, exercises for dealing with difficulties, examples of adaptations for adolescents who have learning disabilities, a board game, and suggestions for activities that can be done alone. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)