Maureen Aarons, Tessa Gittens

The Handbook of Autism

A Guide for Parents and Professionals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This updated edition of this best-selling handbook explores and expands on the practical and jargon free information of first edition. The authors dispel many of the myths surrounding this puzzling and complex disorder and provide practical information that makes sense, covering both medical and educational issues.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Revised
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 341g
• ISBN-13: 9780415160346
• ISBN-10: 0415160340
• Artikelnr.: 21803023

Autorenporträt

Maureen Aarons, Tessa Gittens

Inhaltsangabe

Author's note Foreword by Lorna Wing Introduction 1. The Variable Picture
of Autism 2. The History of Autism 3. What Causes Autism? 4. Problems of
Diagnoses 5. Understanding Autism: Assessing the Autistic Child 6.
Practical Considerations - Management and Counselling 7. Speech and
Language: Communication Development in Autistic Children 8. Educating
Autistic Children 9. Growing up - What lies Beyond? 10. A Postscript -
Alternative Treatments and Cures for Autism? Appendices References and
Further Reading Index.