Book Details

Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School

Publication year: 2006

: 978-0-387-29602-9

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As the rate of autism diagnosis continues to escalate, awareness and recognition of this developmental brain disorder - as well as a demand for services - are also mushrooming. School districts, already struggling under the weight of withering budgets and increasing enrollments, are now scrambling to strike a balance between the types of services and treatments parents want for their children and what the school system can afford to provide. Consequently, a broad cross-section of professionals and parents are searching for the means and methods by which to identify and address the wide-ranging.


: Behavioral Science, Assessment, Autism, Developmental Delay, Developmental Disorders, Identifying, Intervention, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, autism spectrum disorder, diagnosis