NEW EDITION 2021 with Updated research, additional insight and strategies for communication, information about Autism in special populations (such as the gender diverse, those with problematic internet use and gaming addictions, females, and more), and a new chapter on Aging and dementia.
Filled with clinical stories that bring to life the concepts discussed, the book provides strategy-based interventions to address issues of personal and household management, medical care, communication, sensory processing symptoms, and emotional and behavioral regulation..
What of the young adult trying to build relationships? What of the middle aged autistic adult who has been misdiagnosed with Bipolar Disorder and lacks an effective treatment plan? What of the Aging adult who is showing increasingly rigid autistic behaviors and is misdiagnosed as having frontotemporal dementia? Understanding Autism in Adults and Aging Adults is a one-of-a-kind resource designed to improve the correct Diagnosis of Autism spectrum disorder in adults.
The great strides we have made in Understanding childhood autistic behaviors and interventions have lagged dramatically behind the needs of Aging autistics.
Children with Autism grow into Adults with autism. right? Not right.
Autism is a childhood condition ...
NEW EDITION 2021 with Updated research, additional insight and strategies for communication, information about Autism in special populations (such as the gender diverse, those with problematic internet use and gaming addictions, females, and more), and a new chapter on Aging and dementia
