| Description |
xi, 430 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-405) and index. |
| Contents |
Complexity of autism -- Child's perspective -- Assessment of social and communication skills -- Designing intervention -- Strategies to enhance social and communication skills -- Core skills curriculum -- Social skills curriculum -- Communication skills curriculum -- Resources -- Index. |
| Summary |
Quill, associated with The Autism Institute in Essex, Massachusetts, presents educators, clinicians, and parents with a guide to assessment and intervention that features state-of-the-art tools along with hundreds of creative ideas to promote social and communication skills. She also include practical background information about autism itself, guidelines for designing and implementing intervention plans, and reproducible forms for collecting data. Backed by research-based methodology, this bestselling assessment and intervention guide gives you hundreds of creative ideas to promote social and communication skills and a state-of-the-art assessment tool, the Assessment of Social and Communication Skills for Children with Autism. This tool contains a set of questionnaires and checklists that help you obtain a detailed profile of a child's abilities in more than 100 subskill areas and target specific skills for intervention. Each subskill on the assessment tool has a corresponding activity sheet that outlines adaptable intervention activities and helps you build an individualized social and communication skills curriculum for each of your students with autism. Do-Watch-Listen-Say also contains data collection forms to help chart children's progress, as well as an extensive list of resources, practical background information on autism, and guidelines for designing and implementing intervention plans. |
| Subject |
Autistic children -- Rehabilitation.
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Autistic children -- Education.
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Autistic Disorder -- rehabilitation.
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Child.
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Early Intervention, Educational
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| ISBN |
1557664536 |
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9781557664532 |
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