Description
Autism: How to Help, Understand and Support Children and Young People aims to give an introduction to this complex and often confusing topic. A lack of clarity can arise for many reasons, including the broad spectrum of levels, characteristics and symptoms and that can be represented within an ASD diagnosis, and the many competing interventions and treatments.
The book explains how parents, carers and teachers can collaborate to ensure that young autistic people can live inclusive and fulfilled lives.
Audience
Autism: How to Help, Understand and Support Children and Young People will be useful for parents and carers of children and young people living with autism; teachers, teaching assistants, educational psychologists, school senior management teams and other education professionals; support groups; youth workers, group leaders and others interested in the socio-emotional development of young people.
Details
Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
ISBN: 9781803880730
Publication Date: June 2024
Content
Part 1: Introduction
1. What is Autism?
2. A brief history of autism
3. Causes and consequences
4. The challenges of autism – Individual, educational and society
5. The challenges of autism – Parents and caregivers; Ten key things to know about autism
Part 2: Identifying autism
6. Screening and observation
7. Tests and strategies
8. Issues around autism
9. Overlap and comorbidity
Part 3: Living and learning with autism
10. Autism at home
11. Autism at school
12. Provision for children with ASD
13. Curriculum issues
14. The autistic child as a learner
Part 4: Approaches to intervention
15. Behavioural approaches
16. Behaviour management
17. Socialisation
18. Neuro and physiological approaches – Applied Behaviour Analysis
19. Other interventions
Part 5: Beyond school
20. Autism as a label – is it useful?
21. Autism as a gift and high-achieving children
22. Autism at college and university
21. Autism in the workplace
Part 6: Conclusion
27. Summary; 28. A last word to parents and carers;
29. A last word to teachers and schools
Authors
Jo-Ann Page is the founder and Clinical Director of Jo-Page Inclusion, a consultancy working to help young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Jo practices throughout the UK, Middle East and Africa, and has a wealth of experience specialising in ASD, ADHD, dyslexia, dyscalculia and dysgraphia. She is also a teacher and was Director of Inclusive Education for a global education provider.
Gavin Reid is a parent of a young man who was diagnosed at an early age with autism. Unable to find accurate information about his son’s condition, Gavin left classroom teaching and trained as an Educational Psychologist. He subsequently specialised in dyslexia, but he maintained a personal and professional interest in autism by giving talks to societies and parent groups. He also equipped himself professionally to assess and diagnose ASD and has supported many parents and young people in this way.
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