Making Space for Autism: Strategies for Assessing and Modifying Environments to Meet the Needs of Autistic People

McCarthy, Sharon; Connolly, Micaela; Mccarthy, Caoln

 
9781803882420: Making Space for Autism: Strategies for Assessing and Modifying Environments to Meet the Needs of Autistic People
ISBN 10: 1803882425 ISBN 13: 9781803882420
Verlag: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd, 2023

Inhaltsangabe

Historically, there has been an expectation that autistic children and adults should conform their behaviour to social norms, with strategies and interventions centred around navigating spaces and situations with minimal damage. This person-centred environmental assessment and modification programme moves away from this, with the aim to provide information and tools for assessing and reflecting on features of the autistic individual’ s environment to best support their comfort, autonomy and agency. Written as a collaboration between autistic and nonautistic professionals, the authors break down each environmental element (physical, sensory, emotional, communicative and social) by chapter and include checklists as reference points to equip the reader with a framework from which to begin. This accessible, strengths-focused approach to supporting autistic people across different areas of their life reflects a paradigm shift from one where autism is treated as a deficit or impairment to one of strength, acceptanceand autonomy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

MICAELA CONNOLLY is a Senior Educational and Child Psychologist with 15 years’ experience of working on a multidisciplinary team in a specialist autism service. Her work involves assessment; therapeutic interventions; training; developing & implementing programmes to advance understanding &awareness of autism CAOLÁ N MCCARTHY is an autistic Speech and Language Therapist. He has spoken at the IASLT Autism and Neurodiversity Special Interest Groupannual conference & made contributions to the New National Training Programme for Special Educational Needs Assistants with University College Dublin andNational Council for Special Education. Sharon McCarthy is an author, course coordinator and lecturer. She delivers autism-specific training in different disability and education settings across Ireland, and in her role as a professional advocate, she ensures the autistic person's 'voice' is always kept central. Sharon is parent to multiply-identified autistic children and acquired her own autism diagnosis in 2020, with an ADHD diagnosis following in 2022.

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Verlag
Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2023
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1803882425
ISBN 13 
9781803882420
Einband
Spiralbindung
Anzahl der Seiten
231
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