Raising Children With Asperger's Syndrome and High-functioning Autism ─ Championing the Individual

Explains how to help develop social and communication skills in children with autism, clarifies the type of assistance needed from outside the family (and where to find it) and includes suggestions on how to ensure that the needs of other siblings are also met. Original.

Yuko Yoshida M.D. is a child psychiatrist at the Yokohama Psycho-Developmental Clinic in Japan, which specializes in diagnosing and treating children with autism spectrum and other developmental disorders. She is also Managing Director of the Institute of Psychomedical Education for Children. She has over 25 years' clinical experience and has taken training courses taught by Lorna Wing and Judith Gould, and she is one of only a handful of professionals in Japan certified to use the Diagnostic Interview for Social and Communication Disorders (DISCO). She is the author of How To Be Yourself in a World That's Different: An Asperger Syndrome Guide for Adolescents, also published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers.