Practical social skills for autism spectrum disorders
Subtitle: designing child-specific interventions
By: Kathleen Koenig ; foreword by Fred R. Volkmar
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Norton professional book
Publisher: Norton
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780393706987
Subjects: Autistic children; Social skills in children; Rehabilitation
Description: Autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are an alarmingly prevalent topic of conversation in the news, in pediatrician and therapists' offices, in classrooms, among concerned parents, and at home, within families. The rate of diagnoses seems only to rise. It's not surprising that professionals who work with kids on the autism spectrum are eager for effective resources on how to help children and their parents or caregivers manage it. And with this book, readers have a new tool to add to their arsenal. Guiding readers through the overarching considerations and principles for designing successful social interventions, Koenig presents a host of specific techniques, visual strategies and supports, scripts and role play, developmental play approaches, video modeling, peer mediated approaches, technology-based instruction, group instruction, self-monitoring strategies, parent-delivered interventions, and much more. Case vignettes illustrate how each intervention can be implemented, and what trouble-shooting techniques can be used when a child isn't responding well. Koenig also provides advice on how parents and professionals can work together as a team, how to help kids "generalize" their newly learned skills across contexts, and how to measure progress in a sensible way. With a foreword by renowned child psychiatrist Fred Volkmar, hands-on, and user-friendly. An manual for clinicians, educators, school counselors and administrators, parents, and all those who work with kids on the autism spectrum, it unravels the nuances of effective social skills training by showing how to really create intervention programs that take kids' own aptitudes and needs into account.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.