Teaching Children with High-Level Autism: Evidence from Families

Teaching Children with High-Level Autism combines the perspectives of families and children with disabilities and frames these personal experiences in the context of evidence-based practice, providing pre- and in-service teachers and professionals with vital information on how they can help children with high-level autism reach their full potential.

Many children with high-level autism are capable of regulating their behaviours given the right interventions, and this cutting edge text explores multiple methods for helping such children succeed academically, socially, and behaviourally. The book:

• draws from interviews with twenty families who have middle- and high-school-aged children

with high functioning autism or Asperger's syndrome;

• presents a synthesis of the most cutting-edge research in the field;
• provides practical advice for educating children with high-level autism;
• is authored by two special education professors who are also both the parents of children with

disabilities.

Teaching Children with High-Level Autism is essential reading for anyone who works or plans to work with children on the upper range of the autism spectrum.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Autism Basics, Prevalence and Causes

Chapter 3 Characteristics of children with autism

Chapter 4 Profiles of families

Chapter 5 Cognition and Information Processing

Chapter 6 Socialization

Chapter 7 Evidence-Based Practices: Looking at Research Critically

Chapter 8 Teaching Methods from Autism's Past

Chapter 9 Diagnoses, Early Intervention and Preschool

Chapter 10 Elementary School

Chapter 11 Middle School

Chapter 12 High School

Chapter 13 Teaching Strategies-NOS (not otherwise specified)

Chapter 14 Behavior and Classroom Management

Chapter 15 Working with Parents

Chapter 16 Conclusion