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Safeguarding your child with autism : strategies and tools to reduce risks / Jack Scott and Bairbre Flood with Dennis Debbaudt, Kyle Bennett, and Toby Honsberger.

by Scott, Jack, Ph. D.

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Woodbine House, 2020.

618.9285882 S427s

Autistic children -- Care.

Children with autism spectrum disorders -- Care.

Topics in autism.

9781606130056 (pbk)

xiii, 329 p. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The scope of the problem : the status of safety and children with autism -- Models for safety -- Instructional approaches to promote autism safety -- Dealing with the big risks to children with autism -- Safety at school for children with autism -- The assessment and treatment of elopement among children with autism / Kyle Bennett and Toby Honsberger -- Devices and technology for ensuring the safety of children with autism -- Collaborating with community safety partners : working with law enforcement, fire-rescue, and first response personnel / Dennis Debbaudt -- The future of safety for children with autism.

"Safeguarding Your Child with Autism focuses on preventing unintentional injuries to children, teens, and your adults with autism. The book explains that there is a much higher rate of preventable injuries to people with autism compared to their typically developing peers. Deficits in communication and comprehension, as well as certain dangerous behaviors and fixations can have devastating consequences (poisonings, burns, falls, injuries from vehicular collisions, drowning). The authors, experts on autism, offer ways to reduce hazards and teach skills to help people with autism negotiate the world safely, and cover: Models for safety-- top-ranked Sweden's approach to child safety; caregiver surveillance approach; root cause analysis of close calls; Behavior Analytic Approach to determine the reason behind a specific behavior; the Haddon Matrix, a prevention planning tool. Instructional approach--visual supports; Social Stories; prompts & reinforcement; role-play; modeling; Behavioral Skills Training; Direct Teaching; Specific strategies for major risks--barriers; supervision; pedestrian safety skills; water safety skills; family action plan; IEP; behavior assessment; bullying prevention; protective gear for sports; hazards removal from environment. Devices and technology: Collaboration with law enforcement and first responders. Special attention is given to monitoring and preventing elopement and wandering tendencies, which create very dangerous, unsupervised environments and can lead to unintentional injuries."--Amazon.ca.

Flood, Bairbre.

Debbaudt, Dennis, 1949-

Bennett, Kyle (Kyle D.)

Honsberger, Toby.

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