Mental Retardation with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Children

Over the many decades the importance of Psychoeducational intervention playing significantly vital role in treating children having mental retardation with autism spectrum disorders. This book provides an overview of the state of current scientific knowledge on the prevalence, prevention and treatment of children with autism spectrum disorders, and examines the problems encountered in providing the comprehensive approach that is needed to make them part of main stream of the society. Also it provides the impact of psycho-educational interventions on depressive symptoms of mothers of young children with autism or related disorders. It's a modest effort by the author to bring down the practical and advanced aspects on autism spectrum disorders and help the readers in understanding the concepts of and therapeutic approaches in handling problems of children with autism spectrum disorders.

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Talla Anitha Reddy is a Rehabilitation Therapist and Special Educator at the National Institute for Mentally Handicapped (NIMH), Secunderabad. She obtained Ph.D form Sri Venkatesweara University, Tirupati, India in 2014. She has published scientific articles in International and National Journals on Autism disorders in children.