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| Introduction: Who Am I, and How Can I Help You? | |
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| The World of the Child | |
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| Patterns of Development | |
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| Three Young Friends | |
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| On the Spectrum | |
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| Symptom Areas | |
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| Underlying Cognitive Deficits | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Getting a Diagnosis | |
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| First Steps | |
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| Developmental Diagnosis | |
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| Medical Diagnosis | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Why My Child? A Medical Primer | |
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| What Causes ASD? | |
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| Proof of Causation | |
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| Known or Probable Causes of ASD | |
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| Risk Factors and Associated Conditions | |
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| Where Is Autism? | |
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| Could This Happen to Us Again? Recurrence Risk | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Speculative Causes of ASD, and the Autism "Explosion" | |
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| Is ASD a New Disorder? | |
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| Epidemic or "Explosion": What's the Difference? | |
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| Speculative Causes of ASD | |
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| Absence of Proof Is Not Proof of Absence | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| What Does the Future Hold? The Natural History of ASD | |
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| The Dimension of Atypicality | |
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| The Dimension of General Intelligence | |
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| Time: The Third Dimension | |
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| Three Young Friends: The Rest of the Story | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| The World of Intervention Services | |
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| What Can I Do? Intervention Basics | |
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| Patting the Elephant | |
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| Development Versus Behavior | |
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| "Bottom-Up" and "Top-Down" | |
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| Therapies Have a Natural History Too | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| In the Beginning: Intensive Behavioral Intervention | |
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| A Therapy Session | |
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| A Bit of History | |
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| The ABC's of ABA | |
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| ABA: A Cure for ASD? | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Next Steps: Playful Sabotage, Watchful Waiting | |
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| A Therapy Session | |
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| Behaviorism in a Natural Setting (NET and PRT) | |
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| Developmental-Individual-Differences-Relationship Model (DIR; "FloorTime") | |
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| Relationship Development Intervention (RDI) | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Language Therapies: Communication First, Speech Second | |
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| A Therapy Session: Picture Exchange | |
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| A Therapy Session: Verbal Behavior | |
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| Signing | |
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| Pragmatics: Language in a Social Context | |
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| Speech/Language Therapy | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Socially Based Therapies | |
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| Social Stones | |
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| Social Skills Groups | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Hands-On Therapies | |
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| A Therapy Session: Sensory Integration | |
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| Sensory Impairment: The Diagnostic Stepchild | |
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| Sensory Dysfunction: Looking for a Home in the Brain | |
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| A Therapy Session: Feeding Clinic | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Behavior Management and Psychopharmacology | |
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| Not Like Other Children | |
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| Common Scenarios | |
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| Looking Beneath the Surface | |
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| Tying It All Together | |
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| Not So Different from Other Children After All | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Going to School | |
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| Self-Esteem | |
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| Neurologic Maturation | |
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| Behavior Management | |
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| Treatment and Education of Autistic and Relates Communication-Handicapped Children (TEACCH) | |
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| Split Programming | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Sense and Nonsense in the Treatment of ASD | |
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| Protecting Your Child, and Your Pocketbook | |
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| Developmental Therapy: Three Cautionary Tales | |
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| Spotting Quackery | |
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| Biomedical Therapies for ASD | |
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| Keeping an Open Mind | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| The World of the Family | |
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| Family Matters | |
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| We Have a Diagnosis. Now What? | |
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| Next Steps | |
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| Family Mental Health | |
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| What Do I Tell My Child with ASD? | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Practical Concerns | |
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| Special Education: Your Rights Under the Law | |
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| Following the Money | |
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| Long-Term Planning | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Resource List | |
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| Glossary | |
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| The DSM-Not Carved in Stone | |
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| Outcome Studies of ASD | |
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| Psychological Assessment Tests | |
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| Psychopharmacology in ASD | |
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| Index | |