Publisher's Synopsis
Over 100,000 parents have found the facts they need about high-functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD), including Asperger syndrome, in this indispensable guide.
Autism therapy typically focuses on ridding individuals of "autistic" symptoms such as difficulties interacting socially, problems in communicating, sensory challenges, and repetitive behavior patterns. This book offers a new and compelling paradigm: the most successful approaches to autism don't aim at fixing a person by eliminating symptoms, but rather seeking to understand the individual's experience and what underlies the behavior.
Also; leading experts show how you can work with your child's unique impairments--and harness his or her capabilities. Vivid real-world methods and ways to help kids with Autism relate more comfortably to peers, learn the rules of appropriate behavior, and succeed in school. You'll learn how Autism is diagnosed and what treatments and educational supports really work.
Autism is an organic neurobehavioral condition that includes impairments in friendly conversation and developmental vocabulary and communication skills coupled with rigid, repetitive actions. Because of the number of symptoms, this problem is currently called autism spectrum disorder (ASD).
It addresses a broad spectral range of symptoms, skills, and degrees of impairment. ASD runs in the intensity of handicap, relatively limiting the healthy life to a damaging disability that may necessitate institutional care.
Children with autism have trouble communicating and understanding how other people think and feel; this makes it quite challenging to let them go outside alone.
