Raising Children with Asperger's Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism: Championing the Individual
Book Details
- Publisher : Jessica Kingsley
- Published : 2012
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 256
- Category :
Autism and Aspergers - Category 2 :
Child and Adolescent Studies - Catalogue No : 36619
- ISBN 13 : 9781849053174
- ISBN 10 : 1849053170
About the Author(s)
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 PsychoEducation for Children. She has over 20 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.