Social and communication development in autism spectrum disorders
Subtitle: early identification, diagnosis, and intervention
By: edited by Tony Charman, Wendy Stone.
Contributors: Charman, Tony.; Stone, Wendy.
Publisher: Guilford Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Autistic children.; Autistic children -- Language.; Developmentally disabled children -- Language.; Language disorders in children -- Treatment.; Social skills in children.; Communicative disorders in children.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding and measuring social communication in children with autism spectrum disorders / Amy M. Wetherby; title: Early diagnosis of children with autistic spectrum disorders / Catherine Lord and Jennifer Richler; title: Screening for autism spectrum disorders in populations: progress, challenges and questions for future research and practice / Tony Charman and Simon Baron-Cohen; title: Early screening for autism spectrum disorders in clinical practice settings / Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Wendy Stone; title: Treatments to promote responsiveness to and initiation of joint attention / Paul J. Yoder and Andrea S. McDuffie; title: Evidence based interventions for language development in young children with autism spectrum disorders / Sally J. Rogers; title: Promoting social reciprocity and symbolic representation in children with ASD: designing quality peer play interventions / Pamela J. Wolfberg and Adriana L. Schuler; title: Imitation: some cues for intervention approaches in autism spectrum disorders; title: Jacqueline Nadel and Nadra Aouka; title: Augmentative and alternative communication systems for children with autism / Patricia Howlin; title: A developmental approach to understanding atypical development / Tedra A. Walden and Jennifer J. Hurley; title: The neural basis of early joint attention behavior / Peter Mundy and Danielle Thorp.