Recognising Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome - 2nd Edition

Taylor & Francis

Recognising Autism and Aspergers SyndromeA Practical Guide to Adult Diagnosis and Beyond\nAuthor(s): Trevor Powell\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9780367427627, 978-0367427627\nSynopsis\nRecognising Autism and Aspergers Syndrome is an accessible guide, offering information and guidance, self-help and coping strategies and illustrated throughout with personal quotes, vignettes and anecdotes from clients with autism with whom the author has worked clinically.\n\nThe book captures the individual stories, quotations and experiences, observed in adult autism diagnostic services, woven in with contemporary research, theory and clinical insights. It outlines the history of the condition and the present criteria for obtaining a diagnosis. With exercises, tips, questionnaires, psycho-educational work and advice sheets, this new edition also elucidates the female presentation of autism that has attained significance in the r.