Clinical Guide to Early Interventions for Children with Autism (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030411596)

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Clinical Guide to Early Interventions for Children with Autism

$169.99

Clinical Guide to Early Interventions for Children with Autism

$169.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book examines early interventions for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) with the goal to enable primary care physicians as well as other clinicians, therapists, and practitioners to assist parents in making informed decisions based on current research. It provides a map for successfully navigating the maze of early interventions for ASD, focusing on evidence. Chapters review the similarities and differences between current evidence-based treatments, how these treatments work, the factors that facilitate their effectiveness, and the pros and cons of their use for different children and different needs. In addition, chapters discuss the services, laws, policies, and societal issues related to early intervention in ASD.

Featured topics include:

  • Criteria to evaluate evidence in ASD interventions.
  • Effective approaches for Social communication difficulties in ASD.
  • Effective approaches for Restricted and repetitive behaviors (RRBs)in ASD.
  • Naturalistic, developmental approaches to early intervention for children with ASD
  • The TEACCH approach and other visually based approaches for children with ASD.
  • Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) approaches to early intervention for children with ASD.
  • What works for whom in ASD early intervention

Clinical Guide to Early Interventions for Children with Autism is an essential resource for clinicians, primary care providers, and other practitioners as well as researchers, professors, and graduate students in the fields of child, school, and developmental psychology, pediatrics, social work, child and adolescent psychiatry, primary care medicine, and related disciplines.




Author: Giacomo Vivanti
ISBN-10: 3030411591
ISBN-13: 9783030411596
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2020
Pages: 179
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By Giacomo Vivanti
By Giacomo Vivanti
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Giacomo Vivanti, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the A.J. Drexel Autism Institute, Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA, and an Honorary Research Fellow at the Olga Tennison Autism Research Centre at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. His research and clinical work focus on early learning and intervention for children with Autism. Dr. Vivanti is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Early Intervention. He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed scientific articles on autism.

Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Lynch School of Education and Human Development (LSEHD) at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA. Her research focuses on social and language development, and social interaction dynamics in autistic people across the lifespan. Dr. Bottema-Beutel is the director of the specializationin autism spectrum disorder at LSEHD, a program that prepares future special educators to support autistic students. She has written or co-written more than 30 peer-reviewed articles relevant to autism and other special education topics.

Lauren Turner Brown, Ph.D., served as the Assistant Director of the UNC TEACCH Autism Program for 5 years and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She conducted research on early identification and intervention for children with autism spectrum disorder and published over 30 peer reviewed articles on the topic of ASD. Dr. Turner-Brown is currently in private practice in Chapel Hill, NC and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at UNC.

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