Autistic Spectrum Disorder

Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder?: Nonverbal Communication, Asperger Syndrome and the Interbrain
By: Digby Tantam

Book review


This is a difficult to read book, and evaluate, I believe even for those in the business. I’m in no position to determine how good quality of a book it is or not. The book would probably sell more if it was written toward a broader audience.

The technical words it uses show this: some such as “neurotypical” are unexplained for several pages, and later defined as normal. Others come from philosophy “ontological”, “phenomenology”, “intersubjectivity”. Literary words, such as “sotto voce”. Plato explained everything in western philosophy by using common-day words. Buddha, wrote in easy to understand terms. Remove the obfuscated terms, and this will be a better book.

Even when it comes to what should be very simple-to-explain portions of the book, such as nonverbal communications, the topics and what it says are interesting, but writing is unnecessarily complex. These are very simple matters.

After wading through a couple of chapters, I decided it’s easier to learn non-verbal communications issues through other books. If a reader has an excellent vocabulary, and don’t mind dealing complicated writing, this book might be fairly good.


Chen Sun
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