Cover -- Children, Youth and Adults with Asperger Syndrome: Integrating Multiple Perspectives -- Contents -- PREFACE -- Introduction to Asperger Syndrome: A developmental-lifespan perspective -- Part I: Clinical and Service Perspectives -- 1. Clinical assessment of children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome -- 2. Anxiety and depression in children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome -- 3. Enhancing academic, social, emotional, and behavioural functioning in children with Asperger Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disability -- 4. Tourette Syndrome and Asperger Syndrome: Overlapping symptoms and treatment implications -- 5. Young adults with Asperger Syndrome: Psychosocial issues and interventions -- 6. Getting to work: Helping the adolescent with Asperger Syndrome transition to employment -- 7. Sexuality and Asperger Syndrome: The need for socio-sexual education -- Part II: Discipline-based Perspectives -- 8. Communication and Asperger Syndrome: The speech-language pathologist's role -- 9. Integrating paediatrics and child development: Asperger Syndrome and the role of the developmental paediatrician -- 10. Children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome: Social work assessment and intervention -- 11. Medication use in children with high-functioning Pervasive Developmental Disorder and Asperger Syndrome -- 12. Meeting the educational needs of the student with Asperger Syndrome through assessment, advocacy, and accommodations -- 13. Sensory and motor differences for individuals with Asperger Syndrome: Occupational therapy assessment and intervention -- 14. Psychological assessment of more able adults with autism spectrum disorders -- Part III: Theoretical and Research Perspectives -- 15. Developing a research agenda in Asperger Syndrome -- 16. In search of an Asperger culture.

17. Child social interaction and parental self-efficacy: Evaluating simultaneous groups for children with Asperger Syndrome and their parents -- 18. The genetics of autism spectrum disorders -- 19. Quality of life for children with Asperger Syndrome: Parental perspectives -- 20. Depression and anxiety in parents of children and adolescents with Asperger Syndrome -- Part IV: Parent and Personal Perspectives -- 21. Asperger Syndrome: Perceiving normality -- 22. From despair to hope: A mother's Asperger story -- 23. Searching for home in a foreign land: My discovery of Asperger Syndrome -- 24. Asperger Syndrome: It's a family matter -- 25. Life on the outside: A personal perspective of Asperger Syndrome -- Afterword -- CONTRIBUTING AUTHORS -- SUBJECT INDEX -- AUTHOR INDEX.