Pre-Schoolers with Autism

An Education and Skills Training Programme for Parents - Manual for Parents

Bruce Tonge, Avril Brereton

• Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
• Year: 2005
• ISBN:
  9781846420948
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

The title is an effective, manualized parent education programme'

- Educational Book Review

This ground-breaking training programme has been developed in response to a real need for evidence-based early interventions for very young autistic children.

Authoritative and extensively tried and tested, it will help both parents and carers to understand the disorder and how it affects child development. Ultimately, the programme is designed to reduce the severity of emotional/behavioural difficulties by managing a child's particular problems and encouraging effective collaboration between professionals and parents.

The programme is delivered through two accessible manuals - one for parents and one for clinicians - which provide all the information and materials you need.

The Manual for Clinicians explains the purpose and content of each session and includes notes for discussion and teaching, a checklist of `things to do', and photocopiable task sheets for distribution and discussion.

The Manual for Parents features tasks, exercises and discussion points for group sessions, and complements these training materials with engaging personal accounts, an introduction to the history of autism, information about approaches to treatment, and a list of useful websites and further reading.

Structured as a series of individual and small group sessions, the programme is designed to run for 20 weeks and covers key areas such as understanding and managing difficult behaviour; changing/encouraging new behaviours; communication problems in verbal and non-verbal children; social problems; and how to work and play together.

Together, these manuals will provide you with all the information, support and resources you need to run this programme successfully.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Group Session 1: Outline and goals of the programme
• Individual Session 1: An educational session with a focus on your child’s development and behavioural symptoms
• Group Session 2: Issues for parents after the diagnosis
• Individual Session 2: Issues for parents after the diagnosis
• Group Session 3: Understanding and managing difficult behaviour
• Individual Session 3: Understanding and managing difficult behaviour
• Group Session 4: How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences
• Individual Session 4: How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences
• Group Session 5: How to encourage new behaviour
• Individual Session 5: How to encourage new behaviour
• Group Session 6: Communication problems in autism in verbal children
• Individual Session 6: Communication problems in autism in verbal children
• Group Session 7: Communication problems in autism in non-verbal children
• Individual Session 7: Communication problems in autism in non-verbal children
• Group Session 8: Social impairment in autism
• Individual Session 8: Social impairment in autism
• Group Session 9: How to work and play together
• Individual Session 9: How to work and play together
• Group Session 10: Review and critique of programme – where next?
• Individual Session 10: Review and critique of programme – where next?
• Appendix 1: Useful Websites and Further Reading
• Appendix 2: Autism and Asperger’s Disorder
• References