Helping children with autism learn treatment approaches for parents and professionals
Bryna Siegel.
- New York Oxford University Press 2003.
- xii, 498 p. 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-478) and index.
Part I: The fundamentals of autistic learning styles. Understanding the origins of autism and its meaning for development -- When atypical development and typical development cross paths -- Autistic learning disabilities defined: how strengths compensate for weaknesses and form autism. Part II: Autistic learning disabilities and autistic learning styles: what makes the world of the autistic child different? Social autistic learning disabilities: description and treatment -- Autistic learning disabilities of communication -- Autistic learning disabilities of communication: treatments for the pre-verbal and non-verbal child -- Autistic learning disabilities of communication: treatments for the verbal child -- Autistic learning disabilities in relating to the world of objects: description and treatment -- Autistic learning disabilities and the skills of daily living. Part III: Methods of teaching children with autism: how they address autistic learning disabilities and autistic learning styles. Applied behavior analysis and discrete trial training: separating methods from curriculum -- The TEACCH curriculum -- Mainstreaming that works: too accommodating or really including? -- Model programs and exemplary classes: what can we learn? -- Putting the 'I' back in IEP: creating individualized, meaningful learning experiences.
0195138112 (hardcover : alk. paper)
2002151673
101209977 DNLM
Autism--therapy--Child. Learning disorders--etiology--Child. Early Intervention Education--methods. Autism--complications--Child. Learning disorders--therapy--Child.