Social Work Practice in Autism and Developmental Disabilities - Couverture souple

 
9781771126403: Social Work Practice in Autism and Developmental Disabilities

Synopsis

This volume provides a range of perspectives, practices, and ideas relative to social work's engagements with individuals living with autism, intellectual disability and developmental disabilities. Contributors in this peer-reviewed volume include social work practitioners, academic and community-based researchers, educators, activists, and self-advocates. Reflecting different ways of theorizing, speaking about, and working with people with autism and intellectual disability and developmental disabilities, it explores both tensions and possibilities for social work practice, research, education, advocacy and policy development that better meet their needs and desires for their lives.

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À propos de l?auteur

Kevin Stoddart, PhD, is founding director of The Redpath Centre and an adjunct professor, Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, University of Toronto. Since the early 1990s, his primary clinical interest has been supporting children, youth, and adults diagnosed with autism and Asperger Syndrome and the co-existing social and mental health problems that affect them. He continues to be an active clinician at The Redpath Centre in Toronto.

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