Waubonsee Community College

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

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-478) and index

index present

non fiction

Helping children with autism learn

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Bryna Siegel

treatment approaches for parents and professionals

Offers parents, educators, and health professionals information on the newest ways of treating learning disabilities associated with autism

Part I: The fundamentals of autistic learning styles. Understanding the origins of autism and its meaning for development -- When atypical development and typical development cross paths -- Autistic learning disabilities defined: how strengths compensate for weaknesses and form autismPart II: Autistic learning disabilities and autistic learning styles: what makes the world of the autistic child different? Social autistic learning disabilities: description and treatment -- Autistic learning disabilities of communication -- Autistic learning disabilities of communication: treatments for the pre-verbal and non-verbal child -- Autistic learning disabilities of communication: treatments for the verbal child -- Autistic learning disabilities in relating to the world of objects: description and treatment -- Autistic learning disabilities and the skills of daily livingPart III: Methods of teaching children with autism: how they address autistic learning disabilities and autistic learning styles. Applied behavior analysis and discrete trial training: separating methods from curriculum -- The TEACCH curriculum -- Mainstreaming that works: too accommodating or really including? -- Model programs and exemplary classes: what can we learn? -- Putting the 'I' back in IEP: creating individualized, meaningful learning experiences