Children, youth and adults with Asperger Syndrome : integrating multiple perspectives
Stoddart, Kevin P., 1962-2005
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This book offers a comprehensive overview of clinical, research, and personal perspectives on AS, including contributions from experts, first-hand accounts from adults with AS, and viewpoints from parents of AS individuals
Main title:
Children, youth and adults with Asperger Syndrome : integrating multiple perspectives / edited by Kevin P. Stoddart
Author:
Imprint:
Philadelphia Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2005
Collation:
384 p
Contents:
Part I Clinical and service perspectives: Clinical assessment of children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome -- Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome -- Enhancing academic, social, emotional and behavioural functioning in children with Asperger syndrome and nonverbal learning disability -- Tourette syndrome and Asperger syndrome: overlapping symptoms and treatment implications -- Young adults with Asperger syndrome: psychosocial issues and interventions -- Getting to work: helping the adolescent with Asperger syndrome transition to employment -- Sexuality and Asperger syndrome: the need for socio-sexual education -- Part II Discipline-based perspectives: Communication and Asperger syndrome: the speech-language pathologist's role -- Integrating paeddiatrics and child development: Asperger syndrome and the role of the developmental paediatrician -- Children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome: social work assessment and intervention -- Medication use in children with high-functioning Pervasive developmental disorder and Asperger syndrome -- Meeting the educational needs of the student with Asperger syndrome through assessment, advocacy, and accommodations -- Sensory and motor differences for individuals with Asperger syndrome: occupational therapy assessment and intervention -- Psychological assessment of more able adults with autism spectrum disorders -- Part III Theoretical and research perspectives: Developing a research agenda in Asperger syndrome -- In search of an Asperger culture -- Child social interaction and parental self-efficacy: evaluating simultaneous groups for children with Asperger syndrome and their parents -- The genetics of autism spectrum disorders -- Quality of life for children with Asperger syndrome: parental perspectives -- Depression and anxiety in parents of children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome -- Part IV Parent and personal perspectives: Asperger syndrome: perceiving normality -- From despair to hope: a mother's Asperger story -- Searching for home in a foreign land: my discovery of Asperger syndrome -- Asperger syndrome: it's a family matter -- Life on the outside: a personal perspective on Asperger syndrome
ISBN:
1843103192 (pbk)
Dewey class:
616.8588 CHI
Local class:
616.8588
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
98558
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Penrith | NADO Collection | 616.8588 CHI | Available |