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Resources: Review - Useful interventions for teens with Asperger'ssyndrome

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Succeeding with Interventions for Asperger Syndrome Adolescents By John Harpur, Maria Lawlor, and Michael Fitzgerald Published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006 ISBN 1-84310-322-2

This guide to an eclectic raft of interventions designed to help adolescents with Asperger's syndrome takes the reader through a programme of group work designed to develop "interaction skills". Given that difficulties in interaction are fundamental to the condition, this is significant work that signals a very positive direction for further research.

Asperger's syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder that refers to people of normal or above average IQ who show impairments of social understanding, communication and imagination.

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