CHILDREN, YOUTH AND ADULTS WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME: INTEGRATING MULTIPLE PERSPECTIVES; ED. BY KEVIN P. STODDART

This collection of essays offers clinical, research, and personal perspectives on Asperger Syndrome, including contributions from scholars, first-hand accounts from adults with AS, and viewpoints from parents of AS individuals. The book is divided into sections on clinical and service perspectives, disciplined-based approaches, theoretical and research perspectives, and parent and personal perspectives. Appropriate for students, parents, service providers, and young people and adults with the disease. Editor Stoddart is director of the Aspergers Society of Ontario. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR Cover......Page 1 Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome: Integrating Multiple Perspectives......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 PREFACE ......Page 11 Introduction to Asperger Syndrome: A developmental-lifespan perspective......Page 15 Part I: Clinical and Service Perspectives......Page 33 1. Clinical assessment of children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome......Page 35 2. Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome......Page 49 3. Enhancing academic, social, emotional, and behavioural functioning in children with Asperger Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disability......Page 62 4. Tourette Syndrome and Asperger Syndrome: Overlapping symptoms and treatment implications......Page 74 5. Young adults with Asperger Syndrome: Psychosocial issues and interventions......Page 86 6. Getting to work: Helping the adolescent with Asperger Syndrome transition to employment......Page 100 7. Sexuality and Asperger Syndrome: The need for socio-sexual education......Page 112 Part II: Discipline-based Perspectives......Page 125 8. Communication and Asperger Syndrome: The speech–language pathologist’s role......Page 127 9. Integrating paediatrics and child development: Asperger Syndrome and the role of the developmental paediatrician......Page 142 10. Children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: Social work assessment and intervention......Page 157 11. Medication use in children with high-functioning Pervasive Developmental Disorder and Asperger Syndrome......Page 170 12. Meeting the educational needs of the student with Asperger Syndrome through assessment, advocacy, and accommodations......Page 186 13. Sensory and motor differences for individuals with Asperger Syndrome: Occupational therapy assessment and intervention......Page 199 14. Psychological assessment of more able adults with autism spectrum disorders......Page 213 Part III: Theoretical and Research Perspectives......Page 229 15. Developing a research agenda in Asperger Syndrome......Page 231 16. In search of an Asperger culture......Page 244 17. Child social interaction and parental self-efficacy: Evaluating simultaneous groups for children with Asperger Syndrome and their parents......Page 255 18. The genetics of autism spectrum disorders......Page 270 19. Quality of life for children with Asperger Syndrome: Parental perspectives......Page 284 20. Depression and anxiety in parents of children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome......Page 298 Part IV: Parent and Personal Perspectives......Page 313 21. Asperger Syndrome: Perceiving normality......Page 315 22. From despair to hope: A mother’s Asperger story......Page 325 23. Searching for home in a foreign land: My discovery of Asperger Syndrome......Page 336 24. Asperger Syndrome: It’s a family matter......Page 346 25. Life on the outside: A personal perspective of Asperger Syndrome......Page 354 Afterword......Page 364 CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS ......Page 366 SUBJECT INDEX ......Page 370 AUTHOR INDEX ......Page 380 This book offers a comprehensive overview of clinical, research and personal perspectives on Asperger Syndrome, including contributions from parents and experts in the fields of psychology, social work, psychiatry, genetics, sexology and vocational counselling. It includes first-hand accounts from adults with AS, highlighting their difficulties in areas such as social competence and education. Specialist perspectives on AS, including sexuality and relationships, finding and keeping employment and anxiety and depression are sensitively addressed. The viewpoints of parents explore experiences of parenting AS individuals. These varied approaches to living with AS complement the emerging literature on theory, research and practice in this area. The broad scope of Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome guarantees a wide readership among practitioners, students, parents, young people and adults with AS, educates service providers how to assist people with AS and suggests a model of interdisciplinary collaboration for administrators and funders. "Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome offers a comprehensive overview of clinical, research, and personal perspectives on AS, including contributions from experts, first-hand accounts from adults with AS, and viewpoints from parents of AS individuals. These varied approaches to AS complements the emerging literature on theory, research and practice in this area, and suggests a model of interdisciplinary collaboration to assist people with AS most effectively. The broad scope of Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome makes it a key reference for practitioners, students, parents, young people and adults with AS service providers, administrators and funders."--Jacket 'This new emphasis in the field on the more able group with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is an important one for researchers and practitioners so this comprehensive book is a welcome addition to the literature. The editor has assembled a distinguished group of contributors, representing a wide range of disciplines and perspectives. The result is a comprehensive volume that adds immeasurably to our understanding of theory and practice in this important area. Although the contributors are primarily Canadian, their themes and reputations are international, and readers will appreciate the multi As Asperger Syndrome (AS) becomes more widely known to the public, greater numbers of children with suspected or diagnosed AS are coming to the attention of professionals.