Book description
Educational Interventions for Students with Autism offers educators a
vital resource for understanding and working with autistic students.
Written by nationally acclaimed experts in the field and published in
collaboration with the world-renowned UC Davis M. I.N. D. Institute,
the book aims to deepen educators' appreciation of the challenges
surrounding autism in a classroom setting and the current best
practices in education for autism.
To best meet the practical needs of teachers, school administrators,
and parents, the book includes integrative summaries throughout, with
recommendations for real-world classroom use. Topics covered include:
how autism affects student learning, autism and its impact on schools,
a teacher's view of autism and the classroom, best practices and
challenges of working with students with ASD in the classroom,working
with high-functioning autism (HFA) in schools, successful
community-school partnerships, options for teacher training, and more.
Peter Mundy, Ph. D., is the Lisa Capps Professor of
Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Education at UC Davis and Director of
Educational Research at the UC Davis M. I.N. D. Institute. A
developmental and clinical psychologist, Mundy has been working on
defining the nature of autism for the past 30 years.
Ann M. Mastergeorge, Ph. D., is a developmental and educational
psychologist who has been working in the area of education and
developmental disabilities for the past 20 years. She is currently an
investigator on the Autism Phenome Project at the M. I.N. D. Institute
studying the behavioral phenotypes of autism.
