This text is meant as a companion for students in teacher-training, newly-qualified teachers, or for anyone teaching children with autistic spectrum disorders for the first time in a mainstream setting. No prior knowledge of autistic spectrum disorders is necessary.[...]
Written for practitioners working in the field of autism and related disorders (including Asperger's syndrome), this handbook offers an overview of understandings of these disorders from a behavioural, biological and psychological perspective.[...]
Autism is a complex and often puzzling disorder in which pinning down a set of rules surrounding the teaching of children with it is almost impossible to do. Many theories and approaches claim to have the solution to teaching, yet few provide the answers when an autistic child goes against the statu[...]
In entirely accessible terms, Wendy Lawson lays out her groundbreaking theory of Single Attention and Associated Cognition in Autism (SAACA), an approach that explains autism in terms of the unique learning style of individuals on the autism spectrum. She shows that whereas neurotypical people can e[...]