Targeting Autism
What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
3rd Edition
Will be published approx. on 1. November 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-0-520-24838-0 (ISBN)
Description
"Targeting Autism" reaches out to everyone who lives with or cares about a young child with autism. First published in 1998 and updated in 2002, author Shirley Cohen has recast this best seller throughout to chart the dynamics of the autism world in the first years of the twenty-first century. In this expanded edition, she provides specifics about the new developments that have modified the map of the world of autism or that may do so in the near future.
Reviews / Votes
"This book contains a balanced discussion of the many different types of educational programs. It will help parents and professionals make wise choices. It needs to be in every library." - Temple Grandin, author of Thinking in Pictures and Other Reports from My Life with Autism "Every developmental pediatrician, pediatric neurologist, and child psychiatrist in the country should be handing out copies of Targeting Autism along with the diagnosis. It is a marvel. In just 186 warm and engaging pages Cohen asks and answers the questions all of us face when we make potentially life-altering decisions concerning our chil-dren's treatment and education.... This book is a gift." - Catherine Johnson, Narrative: Newsletter of the National Alliance for Autism Research"More details
Edition
3rd edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
363 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-24838-0 (9780520248380)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Shirley Cohen
Targeting Autism
What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
E-Book
11/2006
3rd Edition
Naval Institute Press
€28.99
Available for download
Previous edition
Shirley Cohen
Targeting Autism
What We Know, Don't Know, and Can do to Help Young Children with Autism and Related Disorders
Book
07/2002
1st Edition
University of California Press
€14.80
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Person
Shirley Cohen is Professor of Special Education at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Content
Acknowledgments Prologue to the Third Edition Preface to the First Edition PART ONE: WHAT IS AUTISM? 1. Meeting Autism 2. Having Autism 3. Life Cycles 4. Families PART TWO: TREATING AUTISM 5. We Have a Dream 6. Is ABA the Answer? Intervention Approaches 7. Whatever Happened to Equal Opportunity? 8. Some Thoughts on Alternative Treatments and Other Intervention Controversies part three Looking for Cures, Recovery, and Better Lives 9. Recovery? 10. Moving toward Better Answers Appendix A: Diagnostic Criteria for Autistic Disorder Appendix B: Diagnostic Criteria for Asperger's Disorder Appendix C: Resources References Index