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Targeting autism : what we know, don't know, and can do to help young children with autism spectrum disorders / Shirley Cohen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, (c)2006.Edition: third edition., Expanded & updateditionDescription: xv, 241 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780520248380
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • RJ506 .T374 2006
Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
What is autism?
2. Having autism -- 3. Life cycles -- 4. Families
Treating autism.
6. Is ABA the answer? : intervention approaches -- 7. Whatever happened to equal opportunity? -- 8. Some thoughts on alternative treatments and other intervention controversies
Looking for cures, recovery, and better lives.
10. Moving toward better answers
Appendix B. Diagnostic criteria for Asperger's disorder -- Appendix C. Resources.
Subject: First published in 1998, this book is useful for those who live with or care about a young child with autism. It charts the dynamics of the autism world in the first years of the twenty-first century. It provides specifics about the developments that have modified the map of the world of autism or that may do so in the near future.
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Previous edition: 2002.

PART 1. -- What is autism?

1. Meeting autism -- 2. Having autism -- 3. Life cycles -- 4. Families

PART 2. -- Treating autism.

5. We have a dream -- 6. Is ABA the answer? : intervention approaches -- 7. Whatever happened to equal opportunity? -- 8. Some thoughts on alternative treatments and other intervention controversies

PART 3. -- Looking for cures, recovery, and better lives.

9. Recovery? -- 10. Moving toward better answers

APPENDICES.

Appendix A. Diagnostic criteria for autistic disorder -- Appendix B. Diagnostic criteria for Asperger's disorder -- Appendix C. Resources.

First published in 1998, this book is useful for those who live with or care about a young child with autism. It charts the dynamics of the autism world in the first years of the twenty-first century. It provides specifics about the developments that have modified the map of the world of autism or that may do so in the near future.

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