Pre-Schoolers with Autism : An Education and Skills Training Programme for Parents - Manual for Parents

The title is an effective, manualized parent education programme' - Educational Book Review This ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children. Authoritative and extensively tried and tested, it will help both parents and carers to understand the disorder and how it affects child development. Ultimately, the programme is designed to reduce the severity of emotional/behavioural difficulties by managing a child's particular problems and encouraging effective collaboration between professionals and parents. The programme is delivered through two accessible manuals - one for parents and one for clinicians - which provide all the information and materials you need. The Manual for Clinicians explains the purpose and content of each session and includes notes for discussion and teaching, a checklist of `things to do', and photocopiable task sheets for distribution and discussion. The Manual for Parents features tasks, exercises and discussion points for group sessions, and complements these training materials with engaging personal accounts, an introduction to the history of autism, information about approaches to treatment, and a list of useful websites and further reading. Structured as a series of individual and small group sessions, the programme is designed to run for 20 weeks and covers key areas such as understanding and managing difficult behaviour; changing/encouraging new behaviours; communication problems in verbal and non-verbal children; social problems; and how to work and play together. Together, these manuals will provide you with all the information, support and resources you need to run this programme successfully. Cover......Page 1 Pre-Schoolers with Autism: An Education and Skills Training Programme for Parents: Manual for Parents......Page 5 Contents......Page 7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ......Page 9 Why do this course?......Page 11 Programme outline......Page 12 Group rules......Page 14 Discussion topic: Autism......Page 15 Individual Session 1: An educational session with a focus on your child’s development and behavioural symptoms......Page 19 Reactions to diagnosis......Page 20 Stress and coping......Page 21 Individual Session 2: Issues for parents after the diagnosis......Page 28 What is behaviour management?......Page 30 How to start......Page 34 Individual Session 3: Understanding and managing difficult behaviour......Page 37 Group Session 4: How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences......Page 41 Punishment......Page 42 Individual Session 4: How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences......Page 46 Prompting......Page 50 Chaining......Page 51 Individual Session 5: How to encourage new behaviour......Page 53 Group Session 6: Communication problems in autism in verbal children......Page 55 Verbal children......Page 56 How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal children?......Page 57 Individual Session 6: Communication problems in autism in verbal children......Page 59 How do these language problems affect the behaviour of non-verbal children?......Page 62 Improving non-verbal communication using augmentative systems......Page 63 How to encourage communication......Page 65 Let’s start communicating:Some ideas to get a communication interaction going in young children......Page 66 Individual Session 7: Communication problems in autism in non-verbal children......Page 68 Treatment......Page 69 Treatment approaches for older children and adolescents......Page 70 Individual Session 8: Social impairment in autism......Page 72 Group Session 9: How to work and play together......Page 75 How to gain your child’s attention......Page 76 To increase eye contact, attending and staying on task, remember.........Page 78 Individual Session 9: How to work and play together......Page 79 Group Session 10: Review and critique of programme – where next?......Page 80 Individual Session 10: Review and critique of programme – where next?......Page 81 APPENDIX 1: USEFUL WEBSITES AND FURTHER READING ......Page 82 APPENDIX 2: AUTISM AND ASPERGER'S DISORDER ......Page 85 REFERENCES ......Page 112 Annotation. This ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children. Authoritative and extensively tried and tested, it will help both parents and carers to understand the disorder and how it affects child development. Ultimately, the program is designed to reduce the severity of emotional/behavioural difficulties by managing a child's particular problems and encouraging effective collaboration between professionals and parents. The Manual for Parents features tasks, exercises and discussion points for group sessions, and complements these training materials with engaging personal accounts, an introduction to the history of autism, information about approaches to treatment, and a list of useful websites and further reading This training manual is designed to be used in a 20-week course for parents of preschoolers with autism. The course aims to reduce the severity of emotional/behavioral difficulties by managing a child's particular problems and encouraging effective collaboration between professionals and parents. The manual for parents contains an introduction to the history of autism and information on various approaches to treatment as well as tasks, exercises, and discussion questions. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR This programme takes approximately five months to complete and involves families in weekly sessions for 20 weeks: ten small group sessions lasting 90 minutes and, on alternate weeks, ten sessions lasting one hour are held separately with each family.