This text provides clinicians with a comprehensive guide for working with autistic children and their families. It offers practical assistance with early diagnosis, cutting edge treatment options, interdisciplinary insights, and available resources

Childhood Autism provides clinicians with a comprehensive guide for working with autistic children and their families. It offers practical assistance with early diagnosis, cutting edge treatment options and goals, interdisciplinary insights, and available resources. Empirical research findings are presented in a clear, accessible manner. Perhaps most importantly, vivid case examples bring both the therapista (TM)s and patienta (TM)s experience to the fore as they work towards recovery.
This clear and informative book should be required reading for professionals and students in the fields of medicine, social work, psychology, education, and any other clinicians who work with children on the autism spectrum.

Finally, a clinician's guide to autism which has an integrated treatment approach and displays a clear understanding of what parents of a child on the spectrum experiences. This informative book explains all you need to know in regards to treating and educating a child with autism. - Chantal Sicile-Kira, Executive Director, Autism Makinga Difference, Inc. Childhood Autism provides both practical and scientific information on different therapies for young children with autism? it will be extremely useful for therapists and teachers. - Temple Grandin, from the foreword