Helping children with autism learn : treatment approaches for parents and professionals / / Bryna Siegel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812260303321
• Autore: Siegel Bryna
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0-19-773569-X; 1-280-48094-7; 0-19-803159-9; 0-19-518472-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (513 p.)
• Collana: Oxford scholarship online
• Disciplina: 371.94
• Soggetti: Autistic children - Education; Communicative disorders in children - Treatment; Learning disabilities - Treatment
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Previously issued in print: 2003.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-478) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Understanding the Origins of Autism and Its Meaning for Development; CHAPTER TWO: When Atypical Development and Typical Development Cross Paths; CHAPTER THREE: 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?; CHAPTER FOUR: Social Autistic Learning Disabilities: Description and Treatment; CHAPTER FIVE: Autistic Learning Disabilities of Communication; CHAPTER SIX: Autistic Learning Disabilities of Communication: Treatments for the Pre-Verbal and Non-Verbal Child CHAPTER SEVEN: Autistic Learning Disabilities of Communication: Treatments for the Verbal Child; CHAPTER EIGHT: Autistic Learning Disabilities in Relating to the World of Objects: Description and Treatment; CHAPTER NINE: 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; CHAPTER TEN: Applied Behavior Analysis and Discrete Trial Training: ; Separating Methods from Curriculum CHAPTER ELEVEN: The TEACH Curriculum; CHAPTER TWELVE: Mainstreaming that Works: Too Accommodating or Really Including?; CHAPTER THIRTEEN: Model Programs and Exemplary Classes: What Can We Learn?; CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Putting the 'I' Back in IEP: Creating Individualized, Meaningful Learning Experiences; Further Readings for Teachers, Parents, and Professionals; Appendix A: Autistic Learning Disabilities Inventory; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Bryna Siegel gives parents of autistic children what they need most: hope. There is no simple cure for this multifarious disorder; an individual programme, with a unique array of specific treatments, must be constructed for each child.