Education is an important aspect of the environmental influences on autism and effective education can have a significant effect on outcome for those on the autism spectrum. This handbook is a definitive resource for reflective practitioners and researchers who wish to know and understand current views of the nature of autism and best practice in educational support. It explores the key concepts, debates and research areas in the field.
Reflecting the enormous changes that have taken place in our knowledge and understanding of developmental disorders, this groundbreaking international volume brings this vast and complex field together for the first time.
The new edition of this popular book includes: - More on developing your own scripts - How to assess the child′s current play skills - The adult′s role in play - The use of visual/verbal support - New case studies - New scripts - Advice ...
This book explains the experience of an autistic person facing the everyday events we easily manage. When they read this book my friends and acquaintances may not immediately recognise it is about me.
This new edition of the leading book in autism and early years practice continues to provide excellent guidance for all early years students and practitioners on how to work with young children who have autism or who appear on the autistic ...
This handbook examines policy and practice from around the world with respect to broadly conceived notions of inclusion and diversity within education.
The second edition of The SAGE Handbook of Special Education provides a comprehensive overview of special education, offering a wide range of views on key issues from all over the world.
For example, the Shanghai city government set a requirement that general schools should hire a full-time special education teacher if there are students with disabilities learning in regular classes (sui ban jiu du).
It has been a pleasure to work with Alexia Achtypi, Dan Corlett, Paul Edwards, Danielle Hinton, Glenys Jones, Rita Jordan, Lila Kossyvaki, Andrea MacLeod, Damian Milton, Despina Papoudi and Claire Robson.
The Handbook of Inclusive Education advocates the importance of inclusive education.
Her PhD research is on autism and public policy, specifically how the expertise of policy consumers—people with autism and their ... He is editor of the four-volume SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research Methods in Education (2010), ...