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Understanding Autism and Autistic Functioning: A Guide for Parents, Educators and Professionals book cover

1st Edition

Understanding Autism and Autistic Functioning A Guide for Parents, Educators and Professionals

By Laura Villa, Luca Casartelli Copyright 2025
134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge

134 Pages
by Routledge
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This concise volume offers an accessible overview of recent clinical and research perspectives addressing autism and autistic functioning. By providing an innovative lens, the book benefits from two different angles: a concrete and pragmatical view of an expert clinician with three decades of practice in diagnosis and treatment of autism, and a more “speculative” and “long-term”... Read more

Introduction

1 Atypical Preface: Autism and Autistic Functioning

LUCA CASARTELLI

2 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Insights from a Neuroscientific Perspective

LUCA CASARTELLI

3 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Communicating Diagnosis

LAURA VILLA

4 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Clinical Intervention and Treatment

LAURA VILLA

5 Autism Spectrum Disorder: Positive Prognosis, Optimal Outcome, Best Feasible Outcome, and Recovery

LAURA VILLA

Conclusive Considerations

Biography

Laura Villa is a doctor specializing in child neuropsychiatry at the University of Milan (Italy) and also a psychotherapist. She works at the Scientific Institute IRCCS MEDEA – Associazione “La Nostra Famiglia” (Italy) where she is the head of the rehabilitative services for children with autism.

Luca Casartelli is a researcher (PhD from the University of Geneva, Switzerland) and head of the “Theoretical and Cognitive Neuroscience” Research Unit at the Scientific Institute IRCCS MEDEA. Currently, he is also Adjunct Professor of Developmental Neuroscience at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University (Italy) and of Philosophy at the University of Milan (Italy).

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