Advocating a multi-disciplinary approach to working with children on the Autism spectrum, this book includes theoretical background to Autism spectrum disorder and focuses on the underlying impairments and their impact on sensory processing, motor development, play, language and communication skills, social skills, emotional development and behavior.

The authoring team of speech-language pathologists and occupational therapists explain that each of these developmental areas is intrinsically linked and progress in one aspect of development is dependent on another area's progress.

Groupwork for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Ages 11-16 enables users to:

• Assess individual needs
• Organize groups (including group members, venue and transport)
• Set individual group targets
• Plan group sessions
• Evaluate progress

The book also offers ideas for developing good teamwork, including peer review.

Case studies, working examples, reproducible checklists, assessment forms and session sheets are provided for group facilitators to assess individual needs, set targets, create personalized programs, run group sessions, evaluate progress and more!

Ages 11-16.

Includes 256 pages.