Girls Growing Up on the Autism Spectrum ─ What Parents and Professionals Should Know About the Pre-teen and Teenage Years

For parents, this book addresses the concerns faced by girls with autism spectrum disorders during their teen and pre-teen years. Nichols discusses autism spectrum disorders and sex differences, and gives specific instructions for parents to help their daughters through puberty, and with menstruation, self-confidence, body image, friendships, sexuality and dating, and promoting personal safety. The final chapter relates a mother's story with a daughter who has Asperger's Syndrome. Nichols is a clinical psychologist currently associated with the Fay J. Lindner Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders. Annotation c2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Shana Nichols, PhD, is Clinical Director of the Fay J. Lindner Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders affiliated with AHRC Nassau, and the North Shore - LIJ Health System on Long Island, New York. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and has worked in the areas of assessment, treatment, and research related to autism spectrum and other developmental disorders for over ten years. Gina Marie Moravcik, MA, CCC-SLP, is Coordinator of Education and Speech Language Services at the Fay J. Lindner Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders. She is a speech and language pathologist specializing in social communication and autism spectrum disorders. She is Adjunct Professor and Clinical Supervisor in the Speech Pathology program, St. John's University, USA, and also runs a private speech-language therapy practice. Samara Pulver Tetenbaum, MA, is a doctoral candidate in clinical psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She has been working in the field of autism and related developmental disabilities for the past five years and is currently employed as an applied behavior specialist at the Fay J. Lindner Center for Autism and Developmental Disorders.