A comprehensive guide to autism and ASD (autistic spectrum disorders) offers a new definition of autism, myths, approaches to prevention, advice on how to avoid a misdiagnosis, early and ongoing symptoms, first steps for families, new goals for children and adults with ASD, a step-by-step guide to the Floortime approach, overcoming difficult behavior such as repetition, self-stimulation and aggression, and much more. 60,000 first printing.
Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., author of the widely used and praised books The Challenging Child and (with Serena Wieder, Ph.D.) Engaging Autism, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and lives in Bethesda, Maryland. Serena Wieder, Ph.D., Associate Editor of the Journal of Developmental and Learning Disorders, is co-author with Dr. Greenspan of The Child with Special Needs and a close colleague of Dr. Greenspan's in all his work in the field of autism.
Stanley I. Greenspan, MD, whose books guide the care of children with developmental and emotional problems worldwide, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and President of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders.
Serena Wieder, PhD, is the Clinical Director and a founding member of the Profectum Foundation and the cofounder of the Interdisciplinary Council on Development and Learning Disorders.