Pre-Schoolers With Autism: An Education And Skills Training Programme For Parents, Manual for Clinicians

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. 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.Avril V. Brereton is the author of 'Pre-Schoolers With Autism: An Education And Skills Training Programme For Parents, Manual for Clinicians', published 2005 under ISBN 9781843103417 and ISBN 1843103419.