How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover: What Autism Can Teach Us About Difference, Connection, and Belonging
Author: Rodgers, Jodi
ISBN: 9780316471978
RM141.00
Publisher,Little, Brown Spark
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Format, Hardcover
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No. of Pages, 288
A powerfully moving read from beloved Love on the Spectrum star and disability rights advocate Jodi Rodgers, sharing lessons from her work within the autistic community that can help create a more inclusive society for us all.
In How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover, Jodi Rodgers gives us inspiring, heartwarming stories from her years of experience as a teacher and counselor supporting autistic people. While acknowledging our differences, these stories invite us to expand our empathy and compassion for the neurodivergent people in our lives. Throughout, Rodgers explores the powerful impact of embracing neurodiversity and forming meaningful connections with those around us. Each chapter highlights a different story and an aspect of human behavior, including:
In How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover, Jodi Rodgers gives us inspiring, heartwarming stories from her years of experience as a teacher and counselor supporting autistic people. While acknowledging our differences, these stories invite us to expand our empathy and compassion for the neurodivergent people in our lives. Throughout, Rodgers explores the powerful impact of embracing neurodiversity and forming meaningful connections with those around us. Each chapter highlights a different story and an aspect of human behavior, including:
- How we perceive the world, and our own unique experience of thinking, sensing, and feeling
- How we communicate our perspective to others, understand one another, and express ourselves
- How we can better connect with one another
With dozens of moving stories, How to Find a Four-Leaf Clover will give readers a deeper understanding of and appreciation for the neurodiverse community around them. Above all, it will inspire a profound sense of belonging, revealing that we’re much more similar than we think.
About the Author
Jodi Rodgers is a qualified counselor, sexologist, and special‑education teacher with thirty years of experience in the education, disability, and sexuality fields. During her career, she has worked with clients of all ages and their families. Her private practice, Birds and Bees, helps neurodivergent people learn about the complex areas of sexuality and relationships and how to create love and connection. She has become well known as the relationship counselor on the hit Netflix show Love on the Spectrum.
- Dimensions : 6.35 x 1 x 10.15 inches
