Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children and Adolescents
Subtitle: Evidence-Based Assessment and Intervention in Schools
Publisher: American Psychological Association
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781433816154
Subjects: Autistic children; Education, united states; School psychology; Educational counseling
Description: Wilkinson and contributors make sense of the often conflicting information available and synthesize it in a best-practice guide to screening, assessment, and intervention. It includes procedures to help identify children with ASD using the new DSM-5 symptom criteria and offers essential guidance for assessing a verity of emotional, behavioral, and academic problems.  The book provides practitioners with an evidence-based assessment battery which includes tests of cognitive, academic, neuropsychological, and adaptive functioning.