Overview
- Addresses comorbidity, therapeutic interventions, and functional goals (e.g., social, language, adaptive behaviors)
- Discusses family relationships, education, and living settings (e.g., group homes)
- Offers unique perspectives of parents as well as adults diagnosed with ASD
Part of the book series: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series (ACPS)
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Table of contents (27 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Some Challenges
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Living Arrangement Considerations
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Cultural Competence, Dignity, and Ethics
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Comprehensive Intervention
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Keywords
- Adult diagnosis, autism, quality of life
- Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and autism
- Community settings and individuals with autism
- Courts, legal system, and autism
- Cultural competencies, autism
- Dating, sexuality, and autism
- Early intensive Behavioral intervention (EIBI), autism
- Education, curriculum and individuals with autism
- Employment, vocational skills, autism
- Ethics, dignity, and individuals with autism
- Family relationships and autism spectrum disorder
- Functional analysis, problem behavior, and autism
- Group homes and individuals with autism
- Health care and adults with autism
- High school and individuals with autism
- Parents, adult children with autism, and care
- Pharmacological interventions and autism
- Postsecondary education, college, and autism
- Psychiatric comorbidities and autism
- Social skills and behavior, autism
About this book
Key areas of coverage include:
- Transitioning adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder from educational settings to vocational settings.
- Strategies that can help create independence for adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
- Effective approaches to address issues relating to sexuality for adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
- The effectiveness of early intensive behavioral intervention to help adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder.
Handbook of Quality of Life for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder is an essential reference for researchers, professors, and graduate students as well as clinicians, therapists, and related professionals in clinical child and school psychology, social work, behavioral therapy and related disciplines, including clinical medicine, clinical nursing, counseling, speech and language pathology, and special education.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Justin B. Leaf, Ph.D., is the Co-director of Research for the Autism Partnership Foundation and a Professor at Endicott College. Dr. Leaf received his doctorate degree in behavioral psychology from the Department of Applied Behavioral Science at the University of Kansas. He worked directly under the mentorship of Dr. James Sherman and Dr. Jan Sheldon. Currently, Dr. Leaf leads the research team at Autism Partnership Foundation, which conducts research projects both nationally and internationally. His research interests include examining methods to improve social behaviors for children and adolescents with autism and develop friendships, comparing different teaching methodologies, evaluating parameters of reinforcement, and evaluating long-term outcomes for individuals diagnosed with autism. Dr. Leaf has more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals or book chapters and has presented at both national and international professional conferences and invited events. Heserves on the editorial board for the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders and Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis and has been a guest reviewer for several additional prominent behavior analytic and autism journals.
Joseph H. Cihon, Ph.D., BCBA-D, is the Co-Director of Research for the Autism Partnership Foundation. Dr. Cihon received his bachelor’s degree in special education from Fontbonne University; master’s degree in behavior analysis at the University of North Texas under the mentorship of Dr. Shahla Ala'i-Rosales, Dr. Jesus Rosales-Ruiz, and Dr. Manish Vaidya; and his doctoral degree at Endicott College under the mentorship of Dr. Mary Jane Weiss. He has more than 15 years of experience working with children, adolescents, and adults diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder and other developmental disabilities in home, school, and community settings. His research interests include evaluating approach-based interventions, shaping, increasing favorable interactions among children, their families, and interventionists, developing contingencies to promote generalization and maintenance, and improving mealtimes for selective eaters. Dr. Cihon has published and served as a reviewer for several prominent journals and presented research at national and international conferences.
Julia L. Ferguson, M.S., BCBA, is the Research and Assessment Coordinator for the Autism Partnership Foundation. Ms. Ferguson received her bachelor’s degree in applied behavior analysis and her master’s degree in behavior analysis from the University of North Texas under the mentorship of Dr. Shahla Ala’i. She is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in applied behavior analysis at Endicott College under the mentorship of Dr. Mary Jane Weiss. Ms. Ferguson has more than eight years of experience working with children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in home, school, community, and clinical settings. Her research interests include evaluating social skills interventions for individuals diagnosed with ASD, staff training, evaluating best practice interventions, and comparing different teaching methodologies for individuals diagnosed with ASD. Ms. Ferguson has published many articles in peer-reviewed journals and authored book chapters as well as presented at national and international conferences.
Peter F. Gerhardt, Ed.D., is the Executive Director of the EPIC School in Paramus, NJ. Dr. Gerhardt has nearly 40 years of experience utilizing the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis in support of adolescents and adults with autism spectrum disorders in educational, employment, residential and community-based settings. He is the author or co-author on a number of articles and book chapters on the needs of adolescents and adults with ASD and has presented nationally and internationally on this topic. Dr. Gerhardt serves as Co-Chairman of the Scientific Council forthe Organization for Autism Research and is on numerous professional advisory boards including the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies. He received his doctorate from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey’s Graduate School of Education.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Handbook of Quality of Life for Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Editors: Justin B. Leaf, Joseph H. Cihon, Julia L. Ferguson, Peter F. Gerhardt
Series Title: Autism and Child Psychopathology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98507-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98506-6Published: 03 June 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98509-7Published: 04 June 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98507-3Published: 01 June 2022
Series ISSN: 2192-922X
Series E-ISSN: 2192-9238
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 483
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Developmental Psychology, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Developmental Psychology