Targeting Autism
What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
3rd Edition
Published on 1. November 2006
258 pages
978-0-520-93301-9 (ISBN)
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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.
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Shirley Cohen
Targeting Autism
What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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11/2006
3rd Edition
University of California Press
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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
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
