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| Authors | Ami J.M. Klin, Fred R. Volkmar, Sara S. Sparrow |
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| Published | February 18th, 2000 |
| Manufacturer | The Guilford Press |
| Media Type | Hardcover |
| List Price | $57.00 |
| Our Price | $57.00 |
| Used Price | $39.99 |
| Sales Rank | 24772 |
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| Average Rating | 4.00 |
| Record Updated | July 31st, 2005 at 5:14 pm PDT |
| Lookup ID | 1572305347-1657 |
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For Academics. (5 stars)
This books is more of a research overview than anthing else, with a variety of papers written from several perspectives. A particular disappointment to me was that, rather than getting essays from the many talented Aspies out there, they got some from their parents to close the book out. It is probably more useful to psychiatrists, Occupational Therapists, and the specialist working on a Ph.D. in Special Ed than any parent or newly diagnosed Aspie.
If you are a parent, and interested in getting into your child's mind, I would suggest reading Liane Holliday Wilson (Aspergers) or Temple Grandin (HFA) or Steven Shore (Aspergers). Szatmari's book is also decent, but is more of a professional's attempts to get into our heads, rather than truly being a first hand account.
There is also a great deal of information, both academic and first-hand accounts, by people on the internet. Viewer beware, however. There is a great amount of nonsense about chelation treatments and other such things that have never been scientifically proven to improve your child's behavior or social skills.
For the latter, I suggest a book called "Incorporating Social Skills in the Classroom", and also a book on NLD whose name I can't currently remember but that you can find in my recently reviewed list.
Very good reference on the topic. (4 stars)
I agree with both reviewers already listed. This book is NOT for the casual reader and most family/ friends will find it difficult, distracting and frustrating. For the newcommer to the field there are better books out there. However this is the best I've seen for someone alreadh familiar with the disorder who wants a good review of the state of the art in 1999-2000. For the serious student however, one would want to augment the text with more up to date journal materials as new information is available. It would be great to see a new addition of this book released.
Excellent source of material for researchers (5 stars)
The collection of papers in this volume are really top class. All the academic authors (there are a few snippets from parents) are very well published. The erudition shows in the breadth and depth of coverage. In such a rapidly hanginf field this is as near as you can come to frozen slice of current thinking. Unlike many anthologies, wherein authors expound on a particular niche obsession, the bulk of articles here offer broad overviews of work. The diagnosis and symptomatology debate is well presented in a series of papers opening the book. Leaving aside the technical academic ares, most paretns will find teh sections on langauge and interventions informative but downheartening. What come across is that adoelscents AS are so heterogenous as a group that even assessing theor conversational deficits is several dozen research projects in itself. The one area of the book that I personally was a little weak on recommendations related to interventions. The emphasis here was on methodological concerns and in fact often meta-methodological concerns. It is eqaully clear that many researchers regard the possibility of remission of AS has highly improbable - to be polite about it. Be that as it may, I reflected to myself a number of times during the course of reading the book (and being part of team looking into interventions), that if a fraction of the effort expended was applied to intervention research would be make better strides? It's a moot point, but if we lose hope we better close down science.