ISBN: 9781855755987    Publisher: Karnac Books Year of publishing: 2008     Format:  Paperback No of Pages: 148        

This book was written for all those families, who, due to lack of funding, are unable to access therapeutic means of intervention.The book is written as though it were a therapy session, with would-be problems dealt with as they arise. The journey this book takes its readers on is a journey into the heart of a treatment process, albeit an imaginary one, where the daily problems that one may encounter on such a program are worked through using behavioral modification and psychotherapeutic methodology. The book explains what may be going wrong on the program, what to do to test assumptions, and what to do when all else has failed. The book works from the premise that children with autism are not immune from emotional upsets and goes on to demonstrate how other forms of interventions can be combined and be shown to have positive results. The case histories within the book are altered ever so slightly so as not to distort the facts but rather to protect the children from being identified.
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Stephanie Louise is a communication specialist with a two-year undergraduate training in psychology. She has also trained at post-graduate level in psychological assessment and, as an undergraduate, with the English National Opera in music, art and dance therapy. In addition to her study of the A"full communicationA" and Lovaas methods at Brunel University, she has developed an expertise in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA), Verbal Behaviour (VB) and child counselling.
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