The World Through a Magnifying Glass
Understand autism and how to communicate with people affected by mild ASD
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"My son was recently diagnosed and I needed to be able to understand how he views the world. Why certain things would overwhelm him and cause so much anxiety and pain. This book made it so clear and easy to understand."
Geiger T.
"Thanks to Luca Dellanna for his book about autism and ASD. It's probably one of the best works I have read in that matter (I have read a few) and it's surprising how realistically he depicts the condition."
Manel Vilar
Software developer
"Loved The World Through a Magnifying Glass – this analogy NAILS IT."
Emerson Spartz
NYT Bestselling author
About the book
How do people with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) perceive the world?
And how to communicate with them effectively?
In this ground-breaking book, author and researcher Luca Dellanna explains how autism is primarily a perceptual disorder rather than a learning disorded (impaired learning comes as a result of a different perception) and how we can adjust the way we communicate to bridge such differences.
What's inside
- The Magnifying Glass
a metaphor to explain autistic perception.
- Two domains
why people with (mild) autism prefer some detailed fields such as maths and physics and are impaired at contextual fields such as sports and social interactions.
- A two-tailed spectrum
how not only there are hyper-detailed people (people labeled as autistic) but also hypo-detailed people – a currently-unlabeled part of the population suffering from a perceptual impairment opposite to the autistic one.
- A spectrum of behaviors
Prioritization by Specificity, Peripheral Functionality Blindness, and other peculiarities frequently exhibited by people with ASD
- Learning and Teaching
how to communicate effectively with people with (mild) ASD.
- And much more…
About the author
Luca Dellanna is the author of more than ten books. He is a researcher in adaptive systems and a management advisor.
Luca has also been teaching risk management and related topics for over ten years at the University of Genoa (as an external lecturer), and frequently gives guest lectures at many public and private institutions.
He has been a speaker at some of the most prestigious conferences and podcasts, such as Nudgestock (the largest behavioral sciences conference) and Econtalk (twice). He has been featured on The Spectator and other famous newspapers.
Luca lives in Turin, Italy, though he also frequently spends time in Singapore.
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The World Through a Magnifying Glass
"My son was recently diagnosed and I needed to be able to understand how he views the world. Why certain things would overwhelm him and cause so much anxiety and pain. This book made it so clear and easy to understand."
Geiger T.