This book is an authoritative resource that presents up-to-date research and evidence-based tools for accurate assessment and intervention. It includes procedures to help identify children using the DSM-5 symptom criteria and offers essential guidance for assessing a variety of emotional, behavioral, and academic problems. The text provides practitioners with an evidence-based assessment battery, which includes tests of cognitive, academic, neuropsychological, and adaptive functioning. The pragmatic, social-communicative functions of language are considered together with assessments to identify language deficits.
Readers also learn to identify comorbid (co-occurring) emotional and behavior problems of children with ASD and understand techniques and strategies to enhance home-school partnerships and engage parents as active partners in the decision-making process. Each chapter is based on the principles of evidence-based practice. Many chapters feature case vignettes to illustrate best practice in the school setting. The volume concludes with a primer on ASD-related litigation issues and discusses relationships between special education law, provision of services, and placement decisions.
"This fantastic resource is a must-read for professionals and students across many disciplines. Contributors provide critical information on a comprehensive range of topics with an emphasis on evidence-based approaches and practical applications." -Natacha Akshoomoff, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Center for Human Development, University of California, San Diego
"Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Assessment and Intervention in Schools serves as an excellent resource for professionals working with children with ASD in educational settings and covers many fundamental aspects that need to be considered in assessment and intervention practices. Overall, this book thoroughly integrates current research and theory as well as relevant practice in school settings and will allow practitioners to further their conceptual understanding of assessing and treating ASD."
- Canadian Journal of School Psychology
“Wilkinson has put together a book that is quite readable and interesting. Difficult concepts are explained clearly but concisely. The style and quality of writing is consistently good across chapters. A strength of this book is the breadth of coverage. The authors meet the goal of providing professionals with information on ASD, screening, assessment, and interventions for the classroom.” - Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment
"This concise book provides a comprehensive and very readable introduction to best practices in the assessment and treatment of ASD in school settings. It succinctly informs the professional reader about the theoretical and research foundations underlying its many suggestions for practice, which are further enhanced by the liberal use of vignettes." -PsycCRITIQUES
"An excellent and accessible synthesis of the evidence base for school-based interventions in ASD and a comprehensive look at the psychological profile of the child with autism." - The Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health
"In its current form, Wilkinson has fashioned a very good book for ASD school practitioners, with commendable interdisciplinary appeal and a much needed dose of empiricism!"
-New England Psychologist
“Overall, Wilkinson’s text is like a guided tour of the parallel yet overlapping worlds of school and clinical practice, which many of our patients and families navigate daily. It will contribute to the reader’s knowledge of ASDs and more broadly of how schools accommodate and work with special-needs children.” – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Availability
Autism Spectrum Disorder in Children and Adolescents: Evidence-Based Assessment and Intervention in Schools is in stock and available from APA Books. It can also be ordered from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Book Depository, and other booksellers. The book is available in both print and eBook formats. Examination and desk copies are available to college and university faculty.
Lee A. Wilkinson, PhD, is
a licensed and nationally certified school psychologist, and certified cognitive-behavioral therapist. He provides
consultation services and best practice guidance to school systems, agencies, advocacy
groups, and professionals on a wide variety of topics related to children and
youth with autism. He is author of the
award-winning books, A Best Practice Guide to Assessment and
Intervention for Autism and Asperger Syndrome in Schools and Overcoming Anxiety and Depression on the
Autism Spectrum: A Self-Help Guide Using CBT. His latest book is A Best Practice Guide to Assessment and
Intervention for Autism Spectrum Disorder in Schools (2nd Edition).