Children, youth and adults with Asperger Syndrome : integrating multiple perspectives / edited by Kevin P. Stoddart.

Available through the EBSCO e-book Collection, which can be found on the Davenport University Library database page.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction to Asberger Syndrome: a developmental-lifespan perspective -- PART I: CLINICAL AND SERVICE PERSPECTIVES -- Clinical assessment of children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome -- Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome -- Enhancing academic, social, emotional, and behavioural functioning in children with Asperger Syndrome and nonverbal learning disability -- Tourette Syndrome and Asperger Syndrome: overlapping symptoms and treatment implications -- Young adults with Asperger Syndrome: psychosocial issues and interventions -- Getting to work: helping the adolescent with Asperger Syndrome transition to employment -- Sexuality and Asperger Syndrome: the need for socio-sexual education -- PART II: DISCIPLINE-BASED PERSPECTIVES -- Communication and Asperger Syndrome: the speech-language pathologist's role -- Integrating paediatrics and child development: Asperger Syndrome and the role of the developmental paediatrician -- Children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: social work assessment and intervention -- Medication use in children with high-functioning Pervasive Developmental Disorder and Asperger Syndrome -- Meeting the educational needs of the student with Asperger Syndrome through assessment, advocacy, and accommodations -- Sensory and motor differences for individuals with Asperger Syndrome: occupational therapy assessment and intervention -- Psychological assessment of more able adults with autism spectrum disorders -- PART III: THEORETICAL AND RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES -- Developing a research agenda in Asperger Syndrome -- In search of an Asperger culture -- Child social interaction and parental self-efficacy: evaluating simultaneous groups for children with Asperger Syndrome and their parents -- The genetics of autism spectrum disorders -- Quality of life for children with Asperger Syndrome: parental perspectives -- Depression and anxiety in parents of children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome -- PART IV: PARENT AND PERSONAL PERSPECTIVES -- Asperger Syndrome: perceiving normality -- From despair to hope: a mother's Asperger story -- Searching for home in a foreign land: my discovery of Asperger Syndrome -- Asperger Syndrome: it's a family matter -- Life on the outside: a personal perspective on Asperger Syndrome.

Description based on print version record.