Practical social skills for autism spectrum disorders: designing child-specific interventions

✍ Scribed by Kathleen Koenig

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 239
Series: Norton professional book
Edition: 1. ed
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Building a child's "social repertoire" for more effective autism treatment.Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are an alarmingly prevalent topic of conversation in the news, in pediatrician and therapists' offices, in classrooms, among concerned parents, and at home, within families. The rate of diagnoses seems only to rise. It's not surprising that professionals who work with kids on the autism spectrum are eager for effective resources on how to help children and their parents or caregivers manage it. And with this book, readers have a new tool to add to their arsenal.

Drawing on her work at the Yale Child Study Center, Koenig explains how critical it is for kids to not simply learn new social skills that fit their individual needs, but to be able to seamlessly integrate them into a range of day-to-day situations, from the classroom to the lunchroom to the dinner table at home. Building their "social repertoire" in this way, she argues, is key to effective autism...

✦ Subjects

Autistic children;Rehabilitation;Social skills in children

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