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The authors help educators and parents deal with key issues concerning children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and cover working with family members, schools, and agencies.
Growing up and Facing the Future
Growing up and Facing the Future
This chapter considers some of the difficulties that occur as young people on the autism spectrum start to grow up and make the move from children's to adult services. It also addresses some of the problems faced by families at this time.
Change always brings fear, anxiety doubt and uncertainty and coping with change across the life span may feel like walking on shifting sands. At every stage in family life for the family living with autism there are major changes to cope with for everybody. Never is this more true than in the teenage years. Adolescence plus autism makes a difficult time even more difficult and there are important issues to be confronted, such ...
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