Evidence-based assessment of autism spectrum disorder -- Overview of autism spectrum disorder -- Multitier screening and identification -- Comprehensive developmental approach assessment model -- Cognitive, neuropsychological, academic, and adaptive functioning -- Language and social communication -- Co-occurring emotional and behavior problems -- Evidence-based interventions in the classroom -- Continuum of services and individualized education plan process -- Curriculum and program structure -- Collaboration between families and schools -- Legal issues under IDEA.
Summary:
Wilkinson and contributors make sense of the often conflicting information available and synthesize it in a best-practice guide to screening, assessment, and intervention. It includes procedures to help identify children with ASD using the new DSM-5 symptom criteria and offers essential guidance for assessing a verity of emotional, behavioral, and academic problems. The book provides practitioners with an evidence-based assessment battery which includes tests of cognitive, academic, neuropsychological, and adaptive functioning.
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