Book review: Bruce Shapiro & Pasquale Accardo’s “Autism Frontiers”
by Matt
In Autism Frontiers: Clinical Issues and Innovations, authors Bruce Shapiro and Pasquale Accardo (along with their multiple collaborators) do a great job of covering a variety of topics in a concise 200+ pages.
Many of the topics — early intervention, labels & diagnosis, complementary and alternative medicine, educational interventions, effectiveness of medication, autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and co-morbid disorders — could have been stretched into longer publications. By keeping the book relatively concise, however, Autism Frontiers: Clinical Issues and Innovations provides a good overview and examination of medical and clinical research related to ASD.
Autism Frontiers: Clinical Issues and Innovations is seemingly targeted to a professional audience — the handouts and references included in the text should prove as nice additions to any clinician’s ASD toolbox. While not a “page-turner,” Autism Frontiers: Clinical Issues and Innovations does provide an up to date reference guide to the often confusing world related to autism spectrum disorders.