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Charting the Course for Treating Children with Autism: A Beginner's Guide for Therapists
Charting the Course for Treating Children with Autism A Beginner's Guide for Therapists Author:Linda Kelly, Janice Plunkett D'Avignon A practical, hands-on guide for working with children diagnosed with high functioning autism spectrum disorders.This book is a guide and support for professionals?particularly those who have not dealt with this issue very much?for working with children and parents dealing with high functioning autism. The skilled therapist has a crucial role to ... more »play in helping these children and their families to navigate what often will be a stormy course. Viewing ASD as a social communicative disorder that responds to specific cognitive behavioral interventions, this book provides not only sound background and information on the use of tried-and-true therapeutic interventions, but also offers concrete tools that can be used in conjunction with therapy to help more clearly define the issues and be prepared for potentially difficult encounters.It emphasizes an all-encompassing approach to working not only with the children and their parents, but also with their siblings and other family members, as well as others in the community who are involved in the lives of these children. Checklists, descriptives, and forms designed as pull-out sections can be used as homework assignments to be completed and discussed within individual therapy sessions with parents, children, and families alike.The book will provide an anchor for any therapist facing this issue for the first time in their practice, as well as for those who want a solid foundation to map out a course of treatment.« less