"The Autism Spectrum Handbook & Resource Guide" combines valuable, easy-to-understand educational information for consumers, patients, and their families, with official reports and releases about monitoring childhood growth and important milestones, community statistics, living with an ASD, and treatments and further resources for…

This guide presents a program for group counseling with foster parents who have had preservice training and an orientation to agency procedures. The program consists of six group sessions, each with its own objectives, thematic content, and methods. Counseling methods include group discussion, guided fantasy, and role playing. Thematically, the…

Attempting to assist teachers in involving parents more completely in school life, this resource guide provides information and ideas on working and communicating with parents, parent-teacher meetings, and parent guidance. Part one of the book discusses the importance of sensitive communications, individual differences, and protocol. Part two…

The manual, developed by psychologists at the Human Development Training Institute, describes techniques for understanding and dealing with the behavior and development of young children. The major objective of the book is to help elementary school teachers improve communication with their pupils. The manual offers conceptual tools for fostering…