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.
Author(s): Avril V. Brereton, Bruce J. Tonge
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 112
Cover......Page 1
Pre-Schoolers with Autism:
An Education and Skills Training
Programme for Parents:
Manual for Parents......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
......Page 9
Why do this course?......Page 11
Programme outline......Page 12
Group rules......Page 14
Discussion topic: Autism......Page 15
Individual Session 1:
An educational session with a focus
on your child’s development and
behavioural symptoms......Page 19
Reactions to diagnosis......Page 20
Stress and coping......Page 21
Individual Session 2:
Issues for parents after the diagnosis......Page 28
What is behaviour management?......Page 30
How to start......Page 34
Individual Session 3:
Understanding and managing difficult
behaviour......Page 37
Group Session 4:
How to change inappropriate behaviour by manipulating consequences......Page 41
Punishment......Page 42
Individual Session 4:
How to change inappropriate
behaviour by manipulating
consequences......Page 46
Prompting......Page 50
Chaining......Page 51
Individual Session 5:
How to encourage new behaviour......Page 53
Group Session 6:
Communication problems in autism
in verbal children......Page 55
Verbal children......Page 56
How do these language problems affect the behaviour of verbal
children?......Page 57
Individual Session 6:
Communication problems in autism
in verbal children......Page 59
How do these language problems affect the behaviour of
non-verbal children?......Page 62
Improving non-verbal communication using augmentative
systems......Page 63
How to encourage communication......Page 65
Let’s start communicating:Some ideas to get a
communication interaction going in young children......Page 66
Individual Session 7:
Communication problems in autism in
non-verbal children......Page 68
Treatment......Page 69
Treatment approaches for older children and adolescents......Page 70
Individual Session 8:
Social impairment in autism......Page 72
Group Session 9:
How to work and play together......Page 75
How to gain your child’s attention......Page 76
To increase eye contact, attending and staying on task,
remember…......Page 78
Individual Session 9:
How to work and play together......Page 79
Group Session 10:
Review and critique of programme –
where next?......Page 80
Individual Session 10:
Review and critique of programme –
where next?......Page 81
APPENDIX 1: USEFUL WEBSITES AND FURTHER READING
......Page 82
APPENDIX 2: AUTISM AND ASPERGER'S DISORDER
......Page 85
REFERENCES
......Page 112
