Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 2 Volume Set

Fred R. Volkmar, M.D. is Irving B Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center where he directs the autism research program. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Autism and the American Journal of Psychiatry. He is the author of several hundred scientific papers and chapters as well as a number of books including A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent, Teacher and Family Members Needs to Know.Rhea Paul, PhD, CCC-SLP, is Founding Director of the Department of Speech-Language Pathology at Sacred Heart University, an affiliate at Haskins Laboratories, Editor of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, and Past President of the Connecticut Speech, Language, and Hearing Association. She has been Principal Investigator on research projects on language disorders and autism funded by many associations, including the National Institute of Child Health and Development. She received the 2010 Inaugural Ritvo/Slifka Innovative Clinical Research Award from the International Society for Autism Research and has been a Fellow of the American-Speech-Language Hearing Association since 1991.Sally J. Rogers, Ph.D., UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute. Her clinical interests include early intervention for children with autism and social skills groups for autistic adults. She serves on the editorial board of many publications, including the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.Kevin A. Pelphrey, Ph.D., is the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and director of the Child Neuroscience Laboratory at the Yale Child Study Center.

• Contributors xiPreface xixVOLUME 1: DIAGNOSIS, DEVELOPMENT, AND BRAIN MECHANISMSI DIAGNOSIS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, COURSE 11 AUTISM AND THE AUTISM SPECTRUM: DIAGNOSTIC CONCEPTS 3Fred R. Volkmar, Brian Reichow, Alexander Westphal, and David S. Mandell2 THE BROADER AUTISM PHENOTYPE 28Brooke Ingersoll and Allison Wainer3 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 57Alison Presmanes Hill, Katharine E. Zuckerman, and Eric Fombonne4 OUTCOMES IN ADULTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 97Patricia HowlinII DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR 1175 ASD IN INFANTS AND TODDLERS 121Katarzyna Chawarska, Suzanne Macari, Fred R. Volkmar, So Hyun Kim, and Frederick Shic6 SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN WITH ASD 148Nirit Bauminger-Zviely7 ISSUES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS DURING ADOLESCENCE AND BEYOND 176Lynn Kern Koegel, Robert L. Koegel, Amber R. Miller, and Whitney J. Detar8 ADULTS WITH AUTISM 191Carla A. Mazefsky and Susan W. White9 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AUTISM 212Naomi Ornstein Davis and Alice S. Carter10 LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION IN AUTISM 230So Hyun Kim, Rhea Paul, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and Catherine Lord11 PLAY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS: SKILLS, OBJECT PLAY, AND INTERVENTIONS 263Connie Kasari and Ya-Chih Chang12 IMITATION IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 278Giacomo Vivanti and Antonia Hamilton13 NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 302Katherine D. Tsatsanis and Kelly Powell14 AUTISM AND EMOTION 332R. Peter Hobson15 MOTOR CONTROL AND MOTOR LEARNING PROCESSES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 354Stefanie Bodison and Stewart Mostofsky16 SENSORY FEATURES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 378Grace T. Baranek, Lauren M. Little, L. Diane Parham, Karla K. Ausderau, and Maura G. Sabatos-DeVitoIII NEUROBIOLOGY AND MEDICAL ISSUES 40917 GENETICS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 411Michael Rutter and Anita Thapar18 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN THE PRECONCEPTION AND PRENATAL PERIODS IN RELATION TO RISK FOR ASD 424Kristen Lyall, Rebecca J. Schmidt, and Irva Hertz-Picciotto19 BIOCHEMICAL BIOMARKERS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 457George M. Anderson20 THE SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 482James C. McPartland, Rachael M. Tillman, Daniel Y.-J. Yang, Raphael A. Bernier, and Kevin A. Pelphrey21 THE NEUROPATHOLOGY OF AUTISM 497Manuel F. Casanova22 MEDICAL CARE IN AUTISM AND RELATED CONDITIONS 532Fred R. Volkmar, Justin Rowberry, Oana de Vinck-Baroody, Abha R. Gupta, Jennifer Leung, Judith Meyers, Nita Vaswani, and Lisa A. Wiesner23 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 556Lawrence Scahill, Caitlin S. Tillberg, and Andrés MartinAuthor Index I-1Subject Index I-39VOLUME 2: ASSESSMENT, INTERVENTIONS, AND POLICYIV ASSESSMENT 58124 SCREENING FOR AUTISM IN YOUNG CHILDREN 585Lisa V. Iba˜nez, Wendy L. Stone, and Elaine E. Coonrod25 DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENTS IN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS 609Catherine Lord, Christina Corsello, and Rebecca Grzadzinski26 CLINICAL EVALUATION IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY SETTINGS 661Fred R. Volkmar, Leah Langford Booth, James C. McPartland, and Lisa A. Wiesner27 ASSESSING COMMUNICATION IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 673Rhea Paul and Donia Fahim28 BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM: CURRENT PRACTICE AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 695Michael D. Powers, Mark J. Palmieri, Shaunessy M. Egan, Jessica L. Rohrer, Elizabeth C. Nulty, and Solandy ForteV INTERVENTIONS 73729 INTERVENTIONS FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS AT RISK FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 739Sally J. Rogers and Laurie Vismara30 COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENT MODELS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 770Samuel L. Odom, Brian A. Boyd, Laura J. Hall, and Kara A. Hume31 TARGETED INTERVENTIONS FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATION SYMPTOMS IN PRESCHOOLERS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 788Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Paul Yoder, Tiffany Woynaroski, and Micheal P. Sandbank32 AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION 813Pat Mirenda33 INTERVENTIONS FOR CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS 826Robert E. O’Neill, William R. Jenson, and Keith C. Radley34 SUPPORTING MAINSTREAM EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS 838Elizabeth Schoen Simmons, Elizabeth Lanter, and Megan C. Lyons35 SUPPORTING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION 858Megan P. Martins, Sandra L. Harris, and Jan S. Handleman36 PROMOTING RECREATIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 871Marie-Christine Potvin, Patricia A. Prelock, Laurie Snider, and Liliane Beaudoin Savard37 SOCIAL SKILL INTERVENTIONS 887Scott Bellini, Lauren Gardner, and Kimberly Markoff38 EMPLOYMENT AND RELATED SERVICES FOR ADULTS WITH ASD 907Peter F. Gerhardt, Frank Cicero, and Erik Mayville39 BEYOND ACADEMIC INTELLIGENCE: INCREASING COLLEGE SUCCESS FOR STUDENTS ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM 918Christine Wenzel and Jane Thierfeld Brown40 SUPPORTING PARENTS, SIBLINGS, AND GRANDPARENTS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 932Kate E. Fiske, Lauren Pepa, and Sandra L. Harris41 SUPPORTING ADULT INDEPENDENCE IN THE COMMUNITY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 949James W. Loomis42 EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 969Brian Reichow and Erin E. BartonVI SOCIAL POLICY ISSUES 99343 AUTISM ACROSS CULTURES: PERSPECTIVES FROM NON-WESTERN CULTURES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH 997Megan Freeth, Elizabeth Milne, Elizabeth Sheppard, and Rajani Ramachandran44 DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING PRACTICE GUIDELINES 1014Iain McClure45 AUTISM IN THE COURTROOM 1036Gary S. Mayerson, JD46 ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS 1051Tristram Smith, Leona Oakes, and Katelyn Selver47 PREPARING TEACHERS AND PROFESSIONALS 1070Ruth Blennerhassett Eren and Mark P. Groskreutz48 ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF AUTISM 1089Martin Knapp and Ariane Buescher49 TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO EFFECTIVE SOCIAL POLICY 1107Peter DoehringAuthor Index I-1Subject Index I-29

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