Rachel's evocative writing brings together a background in Psychology and NLP, a career coaching adults in emotional intelligence and resilience and 7 years parenting two boys - one with HFA.
Rachel has never published a book before...but has been writing in various guises for many years.
From a background studying Psychology, working as a Psychodynamic Counsellor, running a local pub whilst learning NLP - and then as a consultant for over 15 years. Rachel has used her days training, facilitating and coaching in leadership and emotional intelligence to hone her ability to put into words what others are struggling to understand or verbalise. She has written articles for professional publication (Selection and Development Review 2004), countless proposals and interpretative reports for her client and she has recently composed a comprehensive online learning platform for adult resilience development. Rachel writes an occasional blog on her reflections from consulting and life at https://racheljackson.wordpres...
As a traveller she has also captured her journey across Asia in a number of carefully crafted blog posts at https://racheljacksontravel.wo....
As a mother she continues to work as an independent consultant alongside a difficult journey self-teaching in Autism, Aspergers and Sensory Processing as a support to her son Leo who is now 7. Drawing on her own training to navigate through the maze of diagnosis, and currently grappling with the education system, Rachel has built up a broad knowledge and a far deeper wealth of personal experience in the very personal, at times painful and often amazing experience of bringing up not only a young boy with High Functioning Autism, but also a younger brother who loves him desperately and is struggling to understand why he is different.
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Ok so you don’t have any connection to Autism or Aspergers besides me, and you don’t want a book or a print or a call....but you’d like to show your support anyway. This is for you.
The system works in $ but don’t fret - your faithful £ and € will do just as well. Xx
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So the book is written...but it's in draft awaiting your support to get it into a nice pretty cover with beautiful picture so you can buy it for your families.
If you are prepared to put down a small donation to the cause, I'll let you read the copy...and would appreciate your feedback, advocacy and support in moving me towards my target. You may even know some people who know some people.
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So - the $9 Early Bird offer has sold out!
So I’m introducing a latecomers “Last Orders offer” - put your $10 on the table to help me past the finish post and I will send you draft of the full final text via email plus a signed picture of The Thing for your wall on publication.
NB - don't panic about paying in dollars - its just how the site works. the total cost of $12 is about $8.75.
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A signed copy of the book will be delivered to your door beautifully wrapped for your enjoyment.
NB - don't panic about paying in dollars - its just how the site works. the total cost of $25 is about $18.20.
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This book is about my own personal experience with my son. Yours will inevitably be different. I'd love to hear your story and share my own learning about High Functioning Autism.
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Given the huge variation in behaviours on the Autistic Spectrum, and my own experience of switching out words and skipping bits for a son who is rapidly learning to read well enough to challenge me...I would like to offer 20 purchasers of my book the chance to receive an individually tailored version of the book with your own behaviour examples and a photo and inscription in the front cover for your to share with your child.
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If you really believe in this, be part of it.
For $500 you will receive 25 signed copies of the book for use with your audience.
Your name will appear in the opening pages as one of the key people/companies who made this happen.
If you’re in the UK I will come and deliver the book in person and talk about why I wrote it - or further afield I’ll do a live chat.
Come on - help me to help so many other children and their parents or carers .
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Just a quick update for those of you who are wondering what's happening now:
This is a link to the current drafting of the book.
https://issuu.com/theaspergert...
As you will see it is still very rough and lacks the finesse that we will hope to achieve from a proper editor - but we are working to get something into shape to discuss with publishers. Zeke is sketching away merrily up in Yorkshire and your pledged funds are helping us to take this forward even in advance of a deal.
I am also exploring self publishing costs and process should it come to that...but with at least one offer (albeit not my ideal) currently on the table, I'm hoping it won't.
I have had a couple of people who have taken the draft book into schools and read it out loud to whole year groups - following up with some of the classroom activities. The feedback has been great...so I remain totally confident that there is a reason why this book got written and will prevail to publication.
Until then thank you all for your support.
xxx