Autism for All Teachers:

A Teacher's Guide to Working with Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

This book outlines the different forms of autism, including Asperger's Syndrome and Pervasive Developmental Delay (PDD-NOS), as well as research on the possible causes of autism.

The book describes difficulties faced by students with ASD under five headings:

• Cognition and learning;
• Social and play skills;
• Sensory processing;
• Communication;
• Behaviour.

The book also presents effective strategies to address sensory processing difficulties, to facilitate cognition and learning and to teach communication, social, play and behavioural skills.

A section on working with parents covers communication between home and school and preparing for school entry. The book contains extensive bibliographies of books about ASD written for professionals, personal recounts written by individuals with autism, as well as a list of useful children's books about autism.

Autism for All Teachers is a comprehensive and invaluable resource for mainstream and special education teachers and teacher assistants, for staff in daycare centres, therapists and other professionals working with one or more students with autism, as well as parents of children with ASD.

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Book Review

The Autism Association of Western Australia (Inc) has favourably reviewed this easy-to-read book (see http://www.autism.org.au/).