Full Description
This book raises awareness of the importance of recognising and supporting autism with co-occurring conditions. Autism in Complex Presentations brings together international clinicians and researchers with expertise across a range of neurodevelopmental conditions to provide an evidence-based practical guide on autism assessment. It covers conditions where autism may be hard to recognise and where there are challenges around selecting, administering, and interpreting standard assessments for autism and making diagnoses. Each chapter has an easily accessible case vignette to bring the theory into practice and seeks to share the voices and experience of a young person and their family. There is focus on the challenges experienced in accessing and navigating the assessment process and how an autism diagnosis may have helped with support.
This book will be relevant to clinicians including Paediatricians, Paediatric Neurologists, Child, Adolescent and Adult Psychiatrists, Clinical Psychologists, Paediatric Neuropsychologists, Speech and Language Therapists, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Specialist Nurses, Educational Psychologists, and students. It is not written specifically for people affected by autism, although they may be interested to read the book in its entirety or specific chapters.
Contents
Author Appointments vii
Foreword xi
Preface
1 Autism in the General Population
Maj-Britt Posserud and Christopher Gillberg
2 ADHD and Autism
Penny Andreou and Inyang Takon
3 Anxiety and Autism
Miriam Bindman, Jeremy Oliver and Christopher Gillberg
4 ARFID and Autism
Gillian Greville-Harris, Georgina Salzke-Spurr, and Emma Willmott
5 Demand Avoidance and Autism
Glòria Durà-Vilà,
6 Selective Mutism and Autism
Kathryn Stevenson and Stephanie Love
7 Language Disorder and Autism
Pam Czerniewska and Abigail Mance
8 Intellectual Disability and Autism
Elisabeth Fernell and Christopher Gillberg
9 Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Autism
Hannah George, Steve Rose, and Fionna Bathgatevi
10 Vision Impairment and Autism
Naomi Dale, Alison Salt, and Elaine Clark
11 Cerebral Palsy and Autism
Anne Addison, Kim Bates, Katrina Macleod, and Jenefer Sargent
12 Epilepsy and Autism
Hanna Richardson and Francesca Sawer
13 Tic Disorders and Autism
Holan Liang
14 Girls, Women and Autism
Laura Hull and Will Mandy
15 Gender Diversity and Autism
Kate Cooper, Anna I R van der Miesen, and Meng-Chuan Lai
16 Maltreatment and Autism
Simon Wilkinson, Lucy Sawyer, Claire Davidson-Jamieson, Fiona Turner, and Helen Minnis
