Autism and Everyday Executive Function (eBook)

A Strengths-Based Approach for Improving Attention, Memory, Organization and Flexibility

Paula Moraine (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
160 Seiten
Jessica Kingsley Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-78450-089-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Outlining eight 'Autism Access Points', this book is a helpful guide to understanding, accessing and strengthening executive function skills in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Supportive and user-friendly, the ideas in this book provide a roadmap to developing essential organisational and planning skills.

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Understand and support executive function in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) with this fully-explained, innovative model. Showing how to use an individual's strengths to address executive functioning weaknesses, this approach will also help to build a strong foundation for social and communication skills.Advocating a person-centred approach, the author describes the importance of identifying the individual's preferred style of engagement and communication, and how sensory experiences impact their thoughts, feelings, and actions. She explains how to use this information to identify the individual's strengths and weaknesses across eight key areas which are the building blocks of executive functions: attention; memory; organization; time management; initiative; behavior; goal setting and flexibility. These areas can be used daily to establish predictability and offer a foundation for interpreting, processing and understanding the world with flexibility. Professionals and parents can also use them as the basis of an Individualized Education Plan (IEP), or to create personalized interventions and support at school or at home.

Autor

Paula Moraine, M.Ed. works in private practice in Bel Air, Maryland, as a tutor, coach, mentor, and educational consultant. She offers individual sessions, professional development and lectures widely in the USA and in Europe. Paula is the author of Helping Students Take Control of Everyday Executive Functions - The Attention Fix, also published by JKP.

Inhalt

Note from the author. Introduction. 1. The Autism Kaleidoscope. 2. Autistic Languages and Communication. 3. Autistic Access Points. 4. The Executive Functions in the Autistic World. 5. The Executive Function Map - Making the Kaleidoscope Coherent.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.11.2015
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lernhilfen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Neurologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sonder-, Heil- und Förderpädagogik
• Schlagworte: Asperger Syndrome • attention • Communication • Memory • organization • Planning • Social Skills
• ISBN-10: 1-78450-089-5 / 1784500895
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78450-089-4 / 9781784500894