Someone You Might Know
A Book to Help Us Understand Children and Grown-ups Who Are Dealing with Autism, Asperger's, ADD, ADHD, PDD, etc.
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Rebecca Maria
About this listen
A friend, family member, or someone you might know in school, your neighborhood, church, or synagogue has been diagnosed with Asperger's, Autism, ADD, ADHD, or PDD.
- What does this mean to you?
- What's your role in this?
- What can you do to help?
In this short and easy to listen to book, you will learn what people who struggle with these conditions go through every day. It will help you understand them better and know how to relate to them. Share it with others and help our world become more accepting and friendlier to someone you might know.
©2016 Claudia Retif Barrett (P)2017 Claudia Retif BarrettListeners also enjoyed...
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- Mandymay💄👠👛
- 08-16-17
Loved it👌
A great way to make understanding easy for young children.
I requested this book in exchange for my honest review to share with my 6 year old granddaughter Bella.
My neighbor has a daughter around the same age with Asperger's.
The two girls hit it off instantly and now they are inseparable.
Bella does get confused about her friend's behavior sometimes.
This book is right on her level.
With a better understanding of what her friend is going through, Bella's happy ☺
I highly recommend this book for teachers K - 2nd grade because of the short length its perfect to share in class.
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- Katie Briggs
- 10-18-17
Illuminating and Heart-tugging!
"Someone You Might Know" is an eye-opening and heart-tugging glimpse inside the mind of someone dealing with autism, Asperger's, ADD, ADHD, PDD, etc.
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- Eagle4Life69
- 08-16-17
Good Story
What was one of the most memorable moments of Someone You Might Know?
I can't pick a memorable moment just a good overall story
Did Rebecca Maria do a good job differentiating all the characters? How?
Just one character but her pronunciations one some stuff was not correct and it was something that stuck with me throughout the story. Example (preface was pronounced Pre Face)
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Nothing moving just a nice story to remind everyone how nice everyone should treat each other no matter how different they are. Also just because someone doesn't appear to be affected you never know what they do when they are by themselves.
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- R. MCRACKAN
- 08-16-17
Cute story
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This is a cute story describing a fictitious girl with some sort of autism spectrum disorder. It's a brief rundown of the important parts of understanding people, especially peers, with such disorders: what feels off about them, how that others treat them, how this treatment makes them feel, and how they should be understood and treated. This understanding lays the foundation upon which the important conclusion is built: the need for empathy and inclusion.
The narration is nice and bright. The chipper tone keeps this topic appropriately positive instead of grim. She needs to work on pronunciation in places though -- Preface and Amadeus were mispronounced which is distracting.
This book was given to me for free at my request and I provided this voluntary review.
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- Adam
- 08-16-17
Short encouragement to have understanding and be kind.
Charming little illustration that might encourage a young person to be more understanding and patient with his or her peers who exhibit behaviors that may class them on the spectrum somewhere. You wouldn't even necessarily have to believe that all that is called autism today is actually a real diagnosis of anything for this book to engender understanding and kindness to those different from you.
I enjoyed the narrator and the descriptions. A fun little audiobooks that I wish I would have been willing to heed when I was a youth.
I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
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- Joseph
- 08-02-17
Touching story
This was a simple way to help you understand people that struggle in the spectrum. Sometimes we forget the struggles others face. Glad I listened. You will like it too.
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- Dominique
- 09-17-17
A sweet story about being different
Everyone feels different sometimes, even those of us who are supposedly not different. Author Claudia Retif Barrett's main point near the end of the story was that we all feel a little different from time to time and that's no reason to be rejected or to reject someone else.
The story helps the listener find compassion for someone (as Billy Joel said in the song Only the Good Die Young) who might be laughing a bit too loud, but that never hurt no one.
I enjoyed this book a lot. And for those who criticized the narrator -- did they really miss the entire point of the book? Wasn't it clear that the narrator was saying some of the words DIFFERENTLY? Sheesh, talk about needing to hit you on the head with a brick. The very first word of the book, Preface which should have been pronounced /prefəs/ was pronounced pre-face as in /pri/fās/ and I thought, how funny that she said that word so DIFFERENTLY. And later I reflected that the book is about being different.
An amazing book for kids and adults alike. Worth a listen for kids who may be prone to bullying or who just might be afraid to be friends with the kid who talks too loud, or even the redhead or Asian child because they are different. Don't let your kid be that kid who is a jerk to the different kid. Play them this great book.
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- Mary Moon
- 05-11-22
For very young
This would be a good listen for very young children. The simple wording, and lack of many details tailors this book for that group.
While narration was clearly spoken, it was a bit slow, and I cringed to hear several mispronunciations.
Overall, this is educational, and helpful for children to hear. Empathy is an important trait to develop.
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- Otakara Klettke
- 12-29-17
Great audiobook for kids
I enjoyed this short audiobook as it is a gentle reminder to us not to judge the book by its cover. It is a very easy book to listen to which makes this book a great gift to young children. I can see this book in any kindergarten or elementary school as an aid for teaching acceptance and understanding of one another. I also think that a parent of a "different" child should get tons of copies of this audiobook and gift it to children around her child. Thank you, Claudia Barrett for bringing people closer together!
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- Emily
- 08-23-17
informational
I received this free copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.
This was a short book about understanding people who are on the spectrum disorder. It was good, but it became less about understanding and more instructions on helping. Using the figure of Mary, we are told to become friends with her because she might become famous. While this is qualified that Mary might not become famous, it feels really weird that I'm being told to become friends with somebody because they might become famous. That isn't the foundation of a stable friendship because you're just going to want something from them.
It also felt quite uniform; due to the short length (only eleven or twelve minutes) it feels like the author places people who have autism, ADHD, Aspergers, ADD, PDD (which I have never heard of before) into one category and then says make friends with them because they struggle. In real life, it's just not that simple.
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