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Help for the child with Asperger's Syndrome [electronic resource]

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Mertz presents a readable and comprehensive parent's guide to developing an intervention program for a child with AS.Beginning with the search for a diagnosis, she outlines an accessible overview of the helpful and appropriate services that are available, how to find them and get funding for them, what to expect of them, and how to evaluate them.

Title Help for the child with Asperger's Syndrome [electronic resource] : a parent's guide to negotiating the social service maze / Gretchen Mertz
foreword by Tony Attwood.
Edition 1st American ed.
Publisher London
Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Creation Date 2004
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Diagnosis : how to make the most of it -- Finding a diagnosis -- Be aware of similar and overlapping diagnoses -- The usefulness of diagnosis -- Further down the maze : starting intervention -- Speech therapy -- Occupational therapy -- Related therapies -- The education machine : the maze to end all mazes -- What's needed for students with asperger's syndrome -- Just what you're entitled to -- How to get it -- Daily life : progressing in the maze -- Coordinating therapy from healthcare system, school, and home -- Home front hints.
Extent 1 online resource (240 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010709815205171
MARC RECORDS
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