Understanding Autism and Autistic Functioning
A Guide for Parents, Educators and Professionals
- 152 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Understanding Autism and Autistic Functioning
A Guide for Parents, Educators and Professionals
About this book
This concise volume offers an accessible overview of recent clinical and research perspectives addressing autism and autistic functioning. By providing an innovative lens, the book benefits from two different angles: a concrete and pragmatical view of an expert clinician with three decades of practice in diagnosis and treatment of autism, and a more "speculative" and "long-term" view of a researcher who works on neural and computational architecture of (a)typical neurocognitive functioning.
Trying to understand autism beyond its behavioral symptoms, the book spans from clinical descriptions (e.g., communicating diagnosis, clinical intervention, and prognosis) to recent neuroscientific evidence supporting a potential perspective-shift. The fil rouge of this volume can be summarized in three fundamental aspects that should orient any clinical practice in the context of autism (e.g., diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, etc.): we need an age-dependent, context-dependent, and functioning-dependent approach.
Understanding Autism and Autistic Functioning is crucial reading for parents and caregivers, and professionals in health, education, and social care.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Series Preface
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Atypical Preface: Autism and Autistic Functioning
- Chapter 2 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Insights from a Neuroscientific Perspective
- Chapter 3 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Communicating Diagnosis
- Chapter 4 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Clinical Intervention and Treatment
- Chapter 5 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Positive Prognosis, Optimal Outcome, Best Feasible Outcome, and Recovery
- Conclusive Considerations
- Index