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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 educational needs of the children with autism spectrum disorder.
Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School provides a one-stop resource that enables school psychologists to coordinate efforts between students and parents as well as other educators, administrators, and social services providers to determine which interventions are likely to be most effective in meeting the unique needs of children with autism. This volume, designed as a practical, easy-to-use reference for school psychologists and other educational professionals:
- Makes the case for why school psychologists and their colleagues need to be more prepared, willing, and able to identify and serve students with autism.
- Identifies the causes, prevalence, and associated conditions of autism spectrum disorders.
- Provides a review of screening, referral, and diagnostic assessment processes.
- Offers much-needed guidance on conducting psychoeducational assessments.
- Reviews appropriate treatments for students with autism.
School psychologists, general and special educators, counselors, and social workers will find
Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School an invaluable resource.
List of contents
and Overview.- Causes.- Prevalence and Associated Conditions.- Case Finding and Screening.- Diagnostic Assessment.- Psycho-educational Assessment.- Treatment.
About the author
Dr. Stephen E. Brock, NCSP, is a professor at California State University Sacramento. Previously, he worked for 18 years as a school psychologist with the Lodi Unified School District (the last six of which included assignments as Lead Psychologist). His professional preparation includes a Ph.D. at the University of California, Davis where he researched AD/HD, and was one of the first researchers to identify the reading comprehension deficits often found among students with AD/HD. Dr. Brock currently serves on the editorial boards of both state and national school psychology association newsletters and is an Associate Editor of The California School Psychologist (a peer peer-reviewed journal with the second largest distribution of school psychology journals in the United States). He is Past-President of the California Association of School Psychologists and a member of the National Association of School Psychologists Delegate Assembly and its Executive Counsel. Dr. Brock has authored over 140 publications (including four books) and has made over 65 referred or invited state/national conference presentations. In addition to AD/HD, his academic work has included study of school crisis response, suicide prevention, autism, behavioral interventions, violence prevention, threat assessment, child development, and reading comprehension.
Summary
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 educational needs of the children with autism spectrum disorder.
Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School provides a one-stop resource that enables school psychologists to coordinate efforts between students and parents as well as other educators, administrators, and social services providers to determine which interventions are likely to be most effective in meeting the unique needs of children with autism. This volume, designed as a practical, easy-to-use reference for school psychologists and other educational professionals:
- Makes the case for why school psychologists and their colleagues need to be more prepared, willing, and able to identify and serve students with autism.
- Identifies the causes, prevalence, and associated conditions of autism spectrum disorders.
- Provides a review of screening, referral, and diagnostic assessment processes.
- Offers much-needed guidance on conducting psychoeducational assessments.
- Reviews appropriate treatments for students with autism.
School psychologists, general and special educators, counselors, and social workers will find
Identifying, Assessing, and Treating Autism at School an invaluable resource.
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"This book is an invaluable resource not only for school psychologists but for other professionals and parents as well. It provides an excellent overview of the assessment and treatment of autism and related disorders and outlines with impressive clarity the interventions that can be provided for students with autism in schools. I am certain that this book will be read and reread for the wealth of information it presents."
Robert B. Brooks
Harvard Medical School
Coauthor of Raising Resilient Children
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"This book is an invaluable resource not only for school psychologists but for other professionals and parents as well. It provides an excellent overview of the assessment and treatment of autism and related disorders and outlines with impressive clarity the interventions that can be provided for students with autism in schools. I am certain that this book will be read and reread for the wealth of information it presents."
Robert B. Brooks
Harvard Medical School
Coauthor of Raising Resilient Children
