Children With High-Functioning Autism: A Parent's Guide - Softcover

Hughes-Lynch, Claire E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1593634021 ISBN 13: 9781593634025

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

Children With High-Functioning Autism: A Parent's Guide offers parents the information needed to help them cope with their child's autism and to navigate the path as they first perceive differences, seek assistance and treatment, and help their child develop into his or her full potential.

Including examples of the author's own experiences with her child with autism, this book helps families realize that there are others on similar paths—and help is available. With topics ranging from understanding the first signs of autism and the diagnosis, finding a support network and filling out necessary paperwork, to determining the various types of therapies available and planning for adulthood, this book provides parents valuable insight into this new world.

With an emphasis on high-functioning autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorder-Not Otherwise Specified, and Asperger's syndrome, Children With High-Functioning Autism: A Parent's Guide helps parents learn to celebrate small areas of growth and keep the focus on the child.

About this title

About the Author

Claire E. Hughes-Lynch is associate professor of special education at the College of Coastal Georgia. She received her doctorate in both gifted education and special education from The College of William and Mary. Her research interests include cognitive interventions for children with autism, Response to Intervention, and twice-exceptional children.

Review

Claire Hughes-Lynch writes with the authority that comes from holding a Ph.D. in special education and the humanity that comes from being the mother of a child with autism. Her book—at once an accessible reference manual, a touching memoir, and a practical guidebook—is a compelling read for any parent of a child on the autism spectrum. --Mary McLaughlin, M.Ed., author of the autism blog, Mom Not Otherwise Specified

The humor, honesty, and real-world examples that the author brings from her personal perspective as a parent makes it easy to digest the incredible amount of information and research she provides as a professor. I strongly recommend this book not only to parents, but also to educators, administrators, politicians, and anyone else even remotely curious about ASD. --Wendy W. Murawski, Ph.D., professor, California State University

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1593634021
• ISBN 13: 9781593634025
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254