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Autism frontiers : clinical issues and innovations / edited by Bruce K. Shapiro and Pasquale J. Accardo.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Autism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Paul H. Brookes Publishing, [2008]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Clinicians need the very latest research on all the hot-button topics related to autism-both to work effectively with children and answer their families'' most pressing questions. Autism Frontiers is the book no clinician should practice without: it brings together the biggest names in autism research to examine today''s most important medical and clinical issues.This much-needed professional reference gives clinicians in-depth, up-to-date, and readily applicable research and guidance on the topics they''ll encounter most: early diagnosis and intervention, language and social reciprocity, over
- Contents:
- Clinical overview of the autism spectrum / Bruce K. Shapiro, Deepa U. Menon, and Pasquale J. Accardo
- Autism in the spectrum of developmental disabilities / Thomas M. Lock
- Classification issues in the milder developmental disorders : Asperger syndrome, the syndrome of nonverbal learning disability, and "Einstein children" / Isabelle Rapin
- Developmental regression, autism, and epilepsy / John F. Mantovani
- A neurodevelopmental perspective on developmental language disorders / Bruce K. Shapiro
- Discourse skills of individuals with higher-functioning autism or Asperger syndrome / Janet E. Turner
- Autism spectrum disorders in the first 3 years of life / Rebecca Landa
- Classroom-based interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders / Andrew L. Egel
- Student, parent, and teacher perspectives on barriers to and facilitators of school success for children with Asperger syndrome / Donald P. Oswald ... [et al.]
- Psychopharmacologic approaches to challenging behaviors in individuals with autism / Scott M. Myers
- Complementary and alternative medicine in autism : promises kept? / Thomas D. Challman
- Can autism resolve? / Juhi Pandey ... [et al.]
- Autism spectrum disorders : a conceptualization / Pasquale J. Accardo.
- Notes:
- "Based on the Spectrum of Developmental Disabilities conference"--Page xii.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-59857-828-6
- 1-59857-827-8
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