Clinical Handbook of Behavioral Sleep Treatment in Children on the Autism Spectrum

Clinical Handbook of Behavioral Sleep Treatment in Children on the Autism Spectrum Description

This manual covers the method of utilizing functional behavior assessment (FBA) to treat sleep issues and offers an overview of the nature, prevalence, and causes of sleep problems in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). In addition to providing case studies of the evaluation and treatment processes, it outlines a number of evidence-based treatments and investigates how they relate to the results of the FBA process.

Here’s what you will learn in this course:

• The effects on children and families of successful interventions with sleep.
• How to conduct FBA with clinically complex families.
• Including the child in the intervention.
• The evidence of efficacy of other treatment approaches.