Beginning with an overview of Asperger's syndrome and how it manifests itself in young children, covering diagnosis and parental reactions, it goes on to examine specific therapies: speech and language, play, parent-child and occupational.
The final sections of the book concentrate on the relationship between schools and parents and the future development of these children.
One of its central themes is to encourage all those involved to collaborate in order to best support a child with Asperger's syndrome from the earliest age.
Throughout the book I was often aware that it was written from an American perspective. This should be taken into account, especially when reading the sections on what to expect from diagnosis and access to and availability of the various therapies mentioned. Most chapters could be read in isolation, so it's certainly a book that could be dipped in and out of, for example to gain information on a specific therapy or advice on selecting a school.
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