Susan M. Wilczynski – författare

A Practical Guide to Finding Treatments That Work for People with Autism provides a logical, culturally sensitive, and values-based resource to aid practitioners in making informed decisions on the most effective treatment for any given client at any given time.

By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. This will increase the efficacy of autism treatments, with the goal of producing meaningful gains across a range of skills.

Presents a detailed description of the evidence-based practice of applied behavior analysis as it applies to ASD Offers a decision-making framework that helps clinicians integrate the best available evidence with client values and context Guides practitioners through the process of assessing treatment outcomes that fit with client values and contextual variables Provides concrete examples for various age groups

With contributors from a variety of disciplines this book presents a critical appraisal of current practice, emphasizing evidence-based procedures. By bringing together a diverse group of authors, the editors have ensured that the vast range of information on interventions for children with autism is thoroughly examined, and that no topic has gone untouched. The book is an essential framework for evaluating educational and treatment procedures, selecting those that are most effective, and their evaluating outcome.

A Practical Guide for Finding Interventions that Work for Autistic People: Diversity Affirming Evidence-Based Practice, second edition, provides a socially valid, culturally sensitive, and person-centered resource to aid practitioners in guiding the selection of effective interventions. By providing multiple illustrative examples, practitioners will learn to use their professional judgment to integrate the best available evidence with client values and context. The second edition includes new chapters on diversity affirmation and cultural adaptations of interventions, quality of life, self-determination, guided decision-making, and ethics as foundational skills for identifying effective, socially valid interventions that are delivered with compassion and assent/consent.Presents a detailed description of the diversity-affirming evidence-based practice decision-making modelOffers a framework that helps practitioners integrate the best available evidence with client values and contextDemonstrates how to culturally adapt interventions and center decision-making on the clientGuides practitioners through the process of assessing intervention outcomes that fit with client values and contextual variablesProvides numerous concrete examples involving Autistic people holding many intersecting identities

This book examines issues relating to postsecondary transition from high school to college or competitive vocational settings for Autistic adolescents and young adults. It details the intervention and consultation services essential to prepare students for postsecondary life. The volume addresses the academic, social, self-regulation, and self-sufficiency skills that adolescents and young adults must develop to ensure a successful transition from high school to college and workplace. It focuses on the role of school psychologists in supporting Autistic students as they enter adulthood but is also relevant across numerous disciplines.Key topics addressed include:Using cognitive and neuropsychological assessment results to inform consultation about college entrance  and vocational activities.Evaluating and strengthening academic skills for older Autistic adolescents who plan to enter college or workforce.Helping Autistic students increase their use of social, coping, and behavioral skills.Strengthening Autistic students’ use of self-management and self-sufficiency skills needed to independently perform required tasks in college and the workplace.Selecting an appropriate college and accessing available supports that match student needs.Assisting Autistic students and their families in accessing available services and developing skills that improve employment outcomes.Postsecondary Transition for College- or Career-Bound Autistic Students is a must-have resource for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians and other professionals in clinical child and school psychology, special education, social work, developmental psychology, behavioral therapy/rehabilitation, child and adolescent psychiatry, and all interrelated disciplines.