Edited by Margot Prior

326 Pages Size: 6" x 9"
Paperback January 2005 ISBN 978-1-59385-077-7 Cat. #5077 Price: $37.00 $31.45 order	Hardcover August 2003 ISBN 978-1-57230-917-3 Cat. #0917 Price: $62.00 $52.70 order

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• about the editor
• contributors
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I. Assessment and Management of Behavioral and Learning Difficulties

1. Relationship between Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism, Susan Dickerson Mayes and Susan L. Calhoun

2. Cognitive and Academic Problems, Jo-Ann Reitzel and Peter Szatmari

3. Assessment of Specific Learning Difficulties, Janine Manjiviona

4. Effects of Language and Communicative Deficits on Learning and Behavior, Helen Tager-Flusberg

5. Understanding Social Difficulties, Michael Shaked and Nurit Yirmiya

6. Understanding and Managing Circumscribed Interests, Tony Attwood

7. Assessment and Treatment of Comorbid Emotional and Behavior Problems, Digby Tantam

II. Asperger Syndrome in the Schools

8. Remembering School, Wendy Lawson

9. Challenges Faced by Teachers Working with Students with Asperger Syndrome, Valerie Gill

10. School-Based Intervention for Children with Specific Learning Difficulties, Rita Jordan

11. The Ideal Classroom, Linda Kunce

12. Longer-Term Educational and Employment Outcomes, Patricia Howlin

13. What Do We Know and Where Should We Go?, Margot Prior