Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Volume 1

Fred R. Volkmar, M.D., is Irving B Harris Professor of Child Psychiatry, Pediatrics, and Psychology at the Yale Child Study Center where he directs the autism research program.?He is an associate editor of the Journal of Autism and the American Journal of Psychiatry.?He is the author of several hundred scientific papers and chapters as well as a number of books including?A Practical Guide to Autism: What Every Parent, Teacher and Family Members Needs to Know. Rhea Paul, Ph.D., CCC-SLP SLP, is Professor and Director of the Communication Disorders section in the Developmental Disabilities Clinic at the Yale Child Study Center. She holds a joint appointment at SCSU, where she is Professor of Communication Disorders. Sally J. Rogers, Ph.D., UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute. Her clinical interests include early intervention for children with autism and social skills groups for autistic adults.?She serves on the editorial board of many publications, including the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. Kevin A.? Pelphrey, Ph.D., is the Harris Associate Professor of Child Psychiatry and director of the Child Neuroscience Laboratory at the Yale Child Study Center.

Contributors xi

Preface xix

VOLUME 1: DIAGNOSIS, DEVELOPMENT, AND BRAIN MECHANISMS

I DIAGNOSIS, EPIDEMIOLOGY, COURSE 1

1 AUTISM AND THE AUTISM SPECTRUM: DIAGNOSTIC CONCEPTS 3
Fred R. Volkmar, Brian Reichow, Alexander Westphal, and David S. Mandell

2 THE BROADER AUTISM PHENOTYPE 28
Brooke Ingersoll and Allison Wainer

3 EPIDEMIOLOGY OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 57
Alison Presmanes Hill, Katharine E. Zuckerman, and Eric Fombonne

4 OUTCOMES IN ADULTS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 97
Patricia Howlin

II DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR 117

5 ASD IN INFANTS AND TODDLERS 121
Katarzyna Chawarska, Suzanne Macari, Fred R. Volkmar, So Hyun Kim, and Frederick Shic

6 SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN WITH ASD 148
Nirit Bauminger-Zviely

7 ISSUES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS DURING ADOLESCENCE AND BEYOND 176
Lynn Kern Koegel, Robert L. Koegel, Amber R. Miller, and Whitney J. Detar

8 ADULTS WITH AUTISM 191
Carla A. Mazefsky and Susan W. White

9 SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN AUTISM 212
Naomi Ornstein Davis and Alice S. Carter

10 LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION IN AUTISM 230
So Hyun Kim, Rhea Paul, Helen Tager-Flusberg, and Catherine Lord

11 PLAY DEVELOPMENT IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS: SKILLS, OBJECT PLAY, AND INTERVENTIONS 263
Connie Kasari and Ya-Chih Chang

12 IMITATION IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 278
Giacomo Vivanti and Antonia Hamilton

13 NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 302
Katherine D. Tsatsanis and Kelly Powell

14 AUTISM AND EMOTION 332
R. Peter Hobson

15 MOTOR CONTROL AND MOTOR LEARNING PROCESSES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 354
Stefanie Bodison and Stewart Mostofsky

16 SENSORY FEATURES IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 378
Grace T. Baranek, Lauren M. Little, L. Diane Parham, Karla K. Ausderau, and Maura G. Sabatos-DeVito

III NEUROBIOLOGY AND MEDICAL ISSUES 409

17 GENETICS OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 411
Michael Rutter and Anita Thapar

18 ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS IN THE PRECONCEPTION AND PRENATAL PERIODS IN RELATION TO RISK FOR ASD 424
Kristen Lyall, Rebecca J. Schmidt, and Irva Hertz-Picciotto

19 BIOCHEMICAL BIOMARKERS FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 457
George M. Anderson

20 THE SOCIAL NEUROSCIENCE OF AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 482
James C. McPartland, Rachael M. Tillman, Daniel Y.-J. Yang, Raphael A. Bernier, and Kevin A. Pelphrey

21 THE NEUROPATHOLOGY OF AUTISM 497
Manuel F. Casanova

22 MEDICAL CARE IN AUTISM AND RELATED CONDITIONS 532
Fred R. Volkmar, Justin Rowberry, Oana de Vinck-Baroody, Abha R. Gupta, Jennifer Leung, Judith Meyers, Nita Vaswani, and Lisa A. Wiesner

23 PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY 556
Lawrence Scahill, Caitlin S. Tillberg, and Andres Martin

Author Index I-1

Subject Index I-39

VOLUME 2: ASSESSMENT, INTERVENTIONS, AND POLICY

IV ASSESSMENT 581

24 SCREENING FOR AUTISM IN YOUNG CHILDREN 585
Lisa V. Iba˜nez, Wendy L. Stone, and Elaine E. Coonrod

25 DIAGNOSTIC INSTRUMENTS IN AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS 609
Catherine Lord, Christina Corsello, and Rebecca Grzadzinski

26 CLINICAL EVALUATION IN MULTIDISCIPLINARY SETTINGS 661
Fred R. Volkmar, Leah Langford Booth, James C. McPartland, and Lisa A. Wiesner

27 ASSESSING COMMUNICATION IN AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 673
Rhea Paul and Donia Fahim

28 BEHAVIORAL ASSESSMENT OF INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM: CURRENT PRACTICE AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS 695
Michael D. Powers, Mark J. Palmieri, Shaunessy M. Egan, Jessica L. Rohrer, Elizabeth C. Nulty, and Solandy Forte

V INTERVENTIONS 737

29 INTERVENTIONS FOR INFANTS AND TODDLERS AT RISK FOR AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 739
Sally J. Rogers and Laurie Vismara

30 COMPREHENSIVE TREATMENT MODELS FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 770
Samuel L. Odom, Brian A. Boyd, Laura J. Hall, and Kara A. Hume

31 TARGETED INTERVENTIONS FOR SOCIAL COMMUNICATION SYMPTOMS IN PRESCHOOLERS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 788
Kristen Bottema-Beutel, Paul Yoder, Tiffany Woynaroski, and Micheal P. Sandbank

32 AUGMENTATIVE AND ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION 813
Pat Mirenda

33 INTERVENTIONS FOR CHALLENGING BEHAVIORS 826
Robert E. O’Neill, William R. Jenson, and Keith C. Radley

34 SUPPORTING MAINSTREAM EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS 838
Elizabeth Schoen Simmons, Elizabeth Lanter, and Megan C. Lyons

35 SUPPORTING INCLUSIVE EDUCATION 858
Megan P. Martins, Sandra L. Harris, and Jan S. Handleman

36 PROMOTING RECREATIONAL ENGAGEMENT IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER 871
Marie-Christine Potvin, Patricia A. Prelock, Laurie Snider, and Liliane Beaudoin Savard

37 SOCIAL SKILL INTERVENTIONS 887
Scott Bellini, Lauren Gardner, and Kimberly Markoff

38 EMPLOYMENT AND RELATED SERVICES FOR ADULTS WITH ASD 907
Peter F. Gerhardt, Frank Cicero, and Erik Mayville

39 BEYOND ACADEMIC INTELLIGENCE: INCREASING COLLEGE SUCCESS FOR STUDENTS ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM 918
Christine Wenzel and Jane Thierfeld Brown

40 SUPPORTING PARENTS, SIBLINGS, AND GRANDPARENTS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 932
Kate E. Fiske, Lauren Pepa, and Sandra L. Harris

41 SUPPORTING ADULT INDEPENDENCE IN THE COMMUNITY FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH HIGH-FUNCTIONING AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 949
James W. Loomis

42 EVIDENCE-BASED PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR INDIVIDUALS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS 969
Brian Reichow and Erin E. Barton

VI SOCIAL POLICY ISSUES 993

43 AUTISM ACROSS CULTURES: PERSPECTIVES FROM NON-WESTERN CULTURES AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH 997
Megan Freeth, Elizabeth Milne, Elizabeth Sheppard, and Rajani Ramachandran

44 DEVELOPING AND IMPLEMENTING PRACTICE GUIDELINES 1014
Iain McClure

45 AUTISM IN THE COURTROOM 1036
Gary S. Mayerson, JD

46 ALTERNATIVE TREATMENTS 1051
Tristram Smith, Leona Oakes, and Katelyn Selver

47 PREPARING TEACHERS AND PROFESSIONALS 1070
Ruth Blennerhassett Eren and Mark P. Groskreutz

48 ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF AUTISM 1089
Martin Knapp and Ariane Buescher

49 TRANSLATING RESEARCH INTO EFFECTIVE SOCIAL POLICY 1107
Peter Doehring

Author Index I-1

Subject Index I-29