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Making sense of autistic spectrum disorders : create the brightest future for your child with the best treatment options
- Author
- Coplan, James.
- Title
- Making sense of autistic spectrum disorders : create the brightest future for your child with the best treatment options / James Coplan.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Published
- New York : Bantam Books, c2010.
- Description
- xxii, 424 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- URL
- <Contributor biographical information> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2009047842-b.html <Publisher description> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2009047842-d.html <Sample text> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1112/2009047842-s.html
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- The world of the child: Patterns of development
- Getting a diagnosis
- Why my child? A medical primer
- Speculative causes of ASD, and the Autism "explosion"
- What does the futrue hold? The natural history of ASD
- The world of intervention services: What can I do? intervention basics
- In the beginning: intensive behavioural intervention
- Next steps: playful sabotage, watchful waiting
- Language therpies: communication first, speech sceond
- Socially based therapies
- Hands-on therapies
- Behavior management and psychopharmacology
- Going to school
- Sense and nonsense in the treatment of ASD
- The world of the family: Family matters
- Practical concerns.
- Summary
- Compiles decades of research and clinical work in a guide to the sometimes bewildering array of therapy options and intervention programs.
- Subject headings
- Autism in children. Autism--Treatment.
- ISBN
- 9780553806816 0553806815