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Good communication is central to all relationships, yet the unpredictability of interpersonal exchanges can cause significant anxiety for autistic people and create a barrier to successful communication. Understanding Me, Understanding You is a guide for anyone working with and supporting autistic people. The aim is to encourage the reader to consider how they can create 'autistic spaces' where there is predictability and trust, enabling autistic people to engage, contribute and grow. It seeks to promote mutual understanding, starting by encouraging the reader to understand themselves, their own beliefs and attitudes and the way that this can influence their behaviour; and then to understand another and, in turn, help them to understand. At its foundation is the 'Triad of Understanding', a beautifully simple model for successful communication conceived together by social work practitioner, Dr Jackie Robinson, and three autistic co-researchers over a three year period. Jackie successfully created an autistic space that allowed the autistic co-researchers to flourish and achieve.

One woman's story of career, leadership, and familyDiscover what is holding you back from the career you were meant to have, the promotion you didn't receive, and the risk you were afraid to accept. Count Me In is the memoir of the trailblazer, Susan Allen-a global leader and one of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women. She shares her deeply personal and professional leadership journey (including all her wrong turns), answering the question she's heard the most from young women: "How did you do it?" If you feel stuck in the talent pipeline at your company, suffer from imposter syndrome or perfectionism, or wish to achieve better work-life balance, Count Me In is for you. Susan's journey to the top gives professional women the opportunity to learn strategies to:ask for a promotion and accept you have earned it, avoid risk averse behaviours that limit your growth and potential, acknowledge and kick mom guilt to the curb, andovercome life's inevitable setbacks. All proceeds from the sale of this book is being donated to support pediatric cardiology needs in Toronto and a scholarship for young women in STEM programs. For more information, visit my website at www.countmein.info. If you sign up for my newsletter, you will receive the first three chapters of my book for free!

In this study, the pejorative implications of the ambiguity in which Batouala and its author are identified are refuted. It is demonstrated that the work's controversial Preface-novel relationship obeys the structural and rhythmic imperatives of Africa's speech-music interchangeability, to which jazz also defers.