"Dr Gallo has written an extremely helpful guide to learning how to diagnose autism spectrum disorders across the lifespan, while also addressing the many myths and misconceptions associated with diagnosis and evaluation. His own experiences are excellent examples of the challen…
Diagnosing Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Lifespan Perspective is the first book of its kind to provide authoritative information for medical and mental health professionals on how to properly evaluate and diagnose autism spectrum disorders in individuals of all ages. It is the fi…
Everyone seems to agree that we have an epidemic of what is diagnosed as autism. But, in the history of our society, there has never been an epidemic of any developmental or genetic disorder. Yet, over the span of thirty years, autism has gone from affecting one in 5,000 childre…
This work outlines the exact strategy used, developed over a number of years, which enabled autistic pupils to achieve their full potential. The book revisits the journeys of individual students who were encouraged by a culture of optimism and hopefulness, many of whom are now i…
The book describes a programme developed at a school for people with ASDs, which successfully enabled autistic pupils to achieve their full potential. The authors explain the challenges faced by the young people, and how the programme developed their confidence and skills, with …
The ability to perceive accurately stimuli in the environment is basic to many areas of academic, communicative and social functioning. Although people with autism live in the same physical world and deal with the same 'raw material' their perceptual world turns out strikingly d…