TOPIC: Educating Children with Autism

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Center Developed Documents, Resources, and Tools

Books, Chapters, and Articles
• Social-emotional well-being of students with disabilities: The importance of student support staff.

Technical Aid Packets
• Autism Spectrum Disorders and Schools

Information Resource
• What are Parents told about Autism on the Internet?
• Selective Mutism: A Student Reflects on Her Misdiagnosis, Experiences, and Outcomes
• Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Transitioning to College

Center Reports
• Youngsters' Mental Health and Psychosocial Problems: What are the Data?

Continuing Education Modules
• Addressing Barriers to Learning: New Directions for Mental Health in Schools

Introductory Packets
• Affect and Mood Problems related to School Aged Youth
• Anxiety, Fears, Phobias, and Related Problems: Intervention and Resources for School Aged Youth
• Assessing to Address Barriers to Learning
• Conduct and Behavior Problems
• Early Development and Learning from the Perspective of Addressing Barriers
• Learning Problems and Learning Disabilities

Resource Aid Packet
• Student Psychotropic Medication: The School's Role
• Screening/Assessing Students: Indicators and Tools

Quick Finds
• Special Education
• Classroom-based Learning Supports/Classroom Focused Enabling
• Parent/Home Involvement and Engagement in Schools

Guides to Autism Disorders
• Autism: A Medical Primer
• Autism Spectrum Disorders (Pervasive Developmental Disorders)
Autism? Aspergers? How to Tell the Difference
• Characteristics of Socially Successful Elementary School-Aged Children with Autism
• Current Interventions in Autism - A Brief Analysis
• Evaluation of a Methodology for a Collaborative Multiple Source Surveillance Network for Autism Spectrum Disorders
• High Functioning Autism
• In Parents' Voices: The Education of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD)
• Social Cognition and Its Neural Correlates in Schizophrenia and Autism (Abstract Only)
• Students with Autism Transitioning from Primary to Secondary Schools: Parents' Perspectives and Experiences
• The Under- and Over-Identification of Autism: Factors Associated With Diagnostic Referral

Education & Management (Teaching Strategies)
• Breaking down barriers for autistic students
• Culture in Inclusive Schools: Parental Perspectives on Trusting Family-Professional Partnerships
• Educating Children with Autism
• Educating Students with Autism: Are There Differences in Placement?
• Effective Strategies for the Inclusion of Children With Autism in General Education Classrooms
• Facilitating the social participation of pupils with special educational needs in mainstream schools: A review of school-based interventions
• Inclusive Education: Supporting Students with Autism in Mainstream Classroom
• Principals' and Teachers' Reports of Successful Teaching Strategies With Children With High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder
• The Impact of Implementation Support on the Use of a Social Engagement Intervention for Children with Autism in Public Schools
• What is the whole-school saturation model and how can it improve outcomes for autistic students in inclusive settings?

Implementation & Legislation (Govt Related)

• A Guide to Disability Rights Laws
• Federal Autism Activities
• Federal Autism Activities: Agencies are Encouraging Early ID and Providing Services, and Recent Actions Could Improve Coordination
• United State Government Accountability Office, Special Education: Children with Autism
• Youth with Autism: Federal Agencies Should Take Additional Action to Support Transition-Age Youth

Support/Network Resources
• The M.I.N.D Institutes Press Release on the Epidemiology of Autism in California

Other
• Collected Research on Autism Spectrum Disorder
• Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders

• Autism Society of America
• Division Teach: Treatment and Education of Autism and Related Communication Handicapped Children
• M.I.N.D Institute
• Wrightslaw

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