Learning and Behavior Problems in Asperger Syndrome


$119.00
N0769

8 hours CE
Edited by Margot Prior

Providing a wealth of research-based, practical information, this volume focuses on understanding and managing the challenges that Asperger syndrome (AS) presents in everyday life and in the classroom. Current knowledge is reviewed on the core learning, behavioral, emotional, social, and communication difficulties associated with this complex disorder. Hurdles facing children with AS and their parents and teachers are clearly identified, and effective assessment and intervention approaches described. Special features include first-hand accounts from an adult with AS and a teacher with extensive experience in the area, as well as numerous illustrative vignettes and classroom examples.

Learning Objectives

1. recognize different nuances associated with asperger syndrome
2. comprehend what research and technology has been uncovered in the area of asperger syndrome
3. understand facts surrounding the relationaship between Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism
4. identify the different nuances associated with asperger syndrome
5. identify controversial treatments for Asperger Syndrome

Table of Contents

• Introduction, Prior

1. Assessment and Management of Behavioral and Learning Difficulties
   1. Relationship between Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism, Mayes and Calhoun
   2. Assessment of Specific Learning Difficulties, Manjiviona
   3. Assessment of Learning Difficulties, Reitzel and Szatmari
   4. Effects of Language and Communicative Deficits on Learning and Behavior, Tager-Flusberg
   5. Understanding Social Difficulties, Shaked and Yirmiya
   6. Utilizing and Managing Circumscribed Interests, Attwood
   7. Assessment and Treatment of Comorbid Emotional and Behavior Problems, Tantam
2. Asperger Syndrome in the School
   8. Remembering School, Lawson
   9. Challenges Faced by Teachers, Gill
   10. School-based Intervention of Children with Specific Learning Disabilities, Jordan
   11. The Ideal Classroom, Kunce
   12. Longer-Term Educational and Employment Outcomes, Howlin
   13. What Do We Know and Where Should We Go?, Prior

   Pub 2003, 334 pp. 8 hours CE

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