Targeting Autism: What We Know, Don't Know, and Can Do to Help Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders / Edition 3

by Shirley Cohen

Overview

Targeting Autism reaches out to everyone who lives with or cares about a young child with autism. First published in 1998 and updated in 2002, author Shirley Cohen has recast this best seller throughout to chart the dynamics of the autism world in the first years of the twenty-first century. In this expanded edition she provides specifics about the new developments that have modified the map of the world of autism or that may do so in the near future.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520248380
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	11/01/2006
Edition description:	Third Edition, Expanded and Updated
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Shirley Cohen is Professor of Special Education at Hunter College of the City University of New York.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue to the Third Edition
Preface to the First Edition

PART ONE: WHAT IS AUTISM?
1. Meeting Autism
2. Having Autism
3. Life Cycles
4. Families

PART TWO: TREATING AUTISM
5. We Have a Dream
6. Is ABA the Answer? Intervention Approaches
7. Whatever Happened to Equal Opportunity?
8. Some Thoughts on Alternative Treatments and Other Intervention Controversies
part three Looking for Cures, Recovery, and Better Lives
9. Recovery?
10. Moving toward Better Answers

Appendix A: Diagnostic Criteria for Autistic Disorder
Appendix B: Diagnostic Criteria for Asperger’s Disorder
Appendix C: Resources
References
Index