Teaching Children with High-Level Autism combines the perspectives of families and children with disabilities and frames these personal experiences in the context of evidence-based practice, providing pre- and in-service teachers and professionals with vital information on how they can help children with high-level autism reach their full potential.
Many children with high-level autism are capable of regulating their behaviours given the right interventions, and this cutting edge text explores multiple methods for helping such children succeed academically, socially, and behaviourally. The book:
with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome;
disabilities.
Teaching Children with High-Level Autism is essential reading for anyone who works or plans to work with children on the upper range of the autism spectrum.
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Autism Basics, Prevalence and Causes
Chapter 3 Characteristics of children with autism
Chapter 4 Profiles of families
Chapter 5 Cognition and Information Processing
Chapter 6 Socialization
Chapter 7 Evidence-Based Practices: Looking at Research Critically
Chapter 8 Teaching Methods from Autism's Past
Chapter 9 Diagnoses, Early Intervention and Preschool
Chapter 10 Elementary School
Chapter 11 Middle School
Chapter 12 High School
Chapter 13 Teaching Strategies-NOS (not otherwise specified)
Chapter 14 Behavior and Classroom Management
Chapter 15 Working with Parents
Chapter 16 Conclusion