Lorna Wing

"Despite their disabilities, children and adults with these disorders can be helped to cope better with life if the nature of their problems is understood. This guide explains how people with autism experience the world, the reasons for their disturbed behaviour and resistance to change, why they need an organised, structured environment with a daily routine, and the changes that occur with increasing age. Ways of teaching basic skills, improving communication, developing potential abilities and enlarging social experience are fully described. Sound advice is offered on coping with stress within the family and information given on the various services, state and voluntary, that are available. The latest developments in the field have been included to make this the most up-to-date and comprehensive guide to dealing with autism." "Lorna Wing's lucid, sensitive, practical advice will be valued not only by parents but also by the many interested professional groups including teachers, psychologists, doctors, language therapist and social workers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

A Guide for Parents and Professionals

The Autistic Spectrum

Parents of autistic children are offered practical advice from a leading medical authority on autism--also the parent of an autistic child--who explains proper diagnostic techniques and ways to teach basic skills, improve communication, expand social interaction skills, and more.

A Parents' Guide to Understanding and Helping Your Child

'With admirable clarity, Mrs Peters sums up what determines competence in spelling and the traditional and new approaches to its teaching.' -Times Literary Supplement

Autistic Children

Multidisciplinary volume addressing the practicalities of assessment of ineffective communication in the preschool child.

Developmental Language Disorder, Autism, Low IQ

Preschool Children with Inadequate Communication

orna Wing discusses the stresses on the autistic child's family, services that are available and the outlook for the future. This revised updated edition explains how an autistic child views his world and how to cope with the difficult behaviour and emotional problems that are expected from him.

A Guide For Parents & Professionals

J. K. Wing

A comprehensive 1983 account of the pathology, treatment and prognosis of conditions such as schizophrenia, manic depression and autism.

Handbook of Psychiatry: Volume 3, Psychoses of Uncertain Aetiology

'Authoritative, compassionate and commonsensical . . . an honest, sensitive and thorough introduction to understanding and living with autism . . . highly recommended.' - Psychological Medicine 'Packed with down to earth, practical ideas . . . readable, interesting . . . informative . . . if you buy only one title about autism this year it should be this one.' - Collette Dritte, Nursery World Over 500,000 people of all ages in the UK have disorders in the autistic spectrum. About one-third also have varying degrees of learning difficulty. All have impairment of social interaction, communication and imagination - the world appears a bewildering and sometimes frightening place. This acclaimed, authoritative guide explains how people with autism experience the world and why they need an organized, structured environment, presenting a window into the world of those with the disorder. Wing suggests ways of improving communication, developing abilities and widening social interaction, and how to cope with stresses within the family.

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