Product Description: Numerous functions, cognitive skills, and behaviors are associated with intelligence, yet decades of research has yielded little consensus on its definition. Emerging from often conflicting studies is the provocative idea that intelligence evolved as an adaptation humans needed to keep up with – and survive in – challenging new environments...read more

Product Description: This book examines executive functioning from conceptual and practical perspectives. Each chapter details current thinking, measurement, and interventions relative to executive functioning.

Children are being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders at a staggering rate―as many as one in 110, according to some studies. To this sobering statistic add the familiar figures of the toddler disengaged from his peers, the middle schooler shunned in the lunchroom, and the adult struggling with social cues on the job, and professionals are faced with a mounting challenge: to assist and support young people with these disorders to ensure their successful transition to adolescence and adulthood.The first volume dedicated solely to its topic, Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders provides a comprehensive overview of programs currently in use. Contributors explore programs focusing on long-term outcomes, home- and classroom-based strategies, resilience training for parents, and pharmacological management of symptoms. Background chapters review issues in reliability and validity of interventions and evaluating treatment effectiveness. And an especially cogent chapter discusses the centrality of treatment integrity to best practice. Comprehensive programs and targeted interventions covered include:The Early Start Denver Model for young children.The TEACCH program for children, adults, and families.The Center for Autism and Related Disorders (CARD) and CARD eLearning.PROGress: a program for remediating and expanding social skills.Evidence-based strategies for repetitive behaviors and sensory issues.Self-regulation strategies for students with autism spectrum disorders.Interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorders is an essential resource for researchers, professionals/practitioners, and clinicians in a wide array of fields, including clinical child, school, and developmental psychology; child and adolescent psychiatry; education; rehabilitation medicine/therapy; social work; and pediatrics.

Product Description: Psychology is of interest to academics from many fields, as well as to the thousands of academic and clinical psychologists and general public who can't help but be interested in learning more about why humans think and behave as they do...read more

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Product Description: Impairment and disability are widely used terms, yet considerable disagreement exists as to their relationship―especially when impairment means different things to different professionals in the fields of mental health, medicine, and education...read more

Covers the current state of psychological knowledge and advances.

Product Description: This easy-to-use book focuses on academic interventions for children who have problems learning. The interventions are based upon the Planning, Attention, Simultaneous, Successive (PASS) theory developed by Naglieri. The book describes the theory and illustrates how to apply the interventions in the book...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)