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Autism Spectrum Disorder: How to Help

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Jo-Ann Page, Gavin Reid

  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder
    Straightforward guide to the issues & challenges faced by children & young people who are on the autistic spectrum - and the practical ways in which parents, carers, teachers, and schools can help.

220 pages
2023
ISBN: 9781803880730

Part of the How to Help series of books - Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) offers a complete introduction to this complex and often confusing topic. A lack of clarity can arise for many reasons, including the broad spectrum of characteristics and symptoms that can be represented within an ASD diagnosis (ranging from the very severe, requiring 24-hour monitoring, to the mild but no less important, where the individual can be successfully included in education and society), and the many competing interventions and treatments all purporting to be successful. Arguing that every child and young person with autism can and should lead an inclusive and fulfilling life, Jo-Ann Page and Gavin Reid show that it is up to us as adults to ensure that this is possible - and show how parents, carers, teachers and schools can help.

Part of the How to Help series of books exploring issues commonly faced by children and young people.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Series Preface

About the Authors

Authors Preface

How to Use This Boo

Part 1: Introduction

  1. What is Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)?
  2. A brief history of autism
  3. Causes and consequences
  4. The challenges of autism - Individual, educational and society
  5. The challenges of autism - Parents and caregivers

Part 2: Identifying autism

6. Screening and observation

7. Tests and strategies

8. Issues around autism

9. Overlap and comorbidity

Part 3: Living and learning with autism

10. Autism at home

11. Autism at school

12. Provision for children with ASD

13. Curriculum issues

14. The autistic child as a learner

Part 4: Dealing with autism

15. Behavioural approaches

16. Behaviour management

17. Socialisation

18. Neuro and physiological approaches - Applied Behaviour Analysis

19. Other interventions

Part 5: Beyond school

20. Autism as a label - is it useful?

21. Autism as a gift and high-achieving children

22. Autism at college and university

21. Autism in the workplace

Part 6: Conclusion

27. Summary

28. A last word to parents and carers

29. A last word to teachers and schools


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