This volume includes:
• Commentary-Improving the Prognosis for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Comprehensive, Developmental Approach to Intervention by Stanley I. Greenspan, MD, and Ricki G. Robinson, MD, MPH;
• Guiding Children on the Autism Spectrum in Peer Play: Translating Theory and Research into Effective and Meaningful Practice by Pamela Wolfberg, PhD
• Extending our Understanding of Bipolar Patterns in Children: Applying a Developmentally-Based, Individual Difference, Relationship-Based DIR®Model to Pediatric-Bipolar Disorder by Ira Glovinsky, PhD;
• Childhood Onset Bipolar Disorder: Pharmacological Treatment Overview by Gianni L. Faedda, MD;
• The Use of Developmental, Individual Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR® Therapy with Older Adults with Severe Developmental Disabilities including Autism by Sean Surfas, MS, PhD Candidate;
• Clinical Practice Section including: Language is More than Speech: A Case Study by Morton Ann Gernsbacher, PhD; Commentary by Stanley I Greenspan, MD;
• Developmental Pediatric Approaches to Autistic Disorders: Experience and Reason, by Raun Melmed, MD;
• Book Review: The Boy Who Loved Windows: Opening the Heart and Mind of a Child Threatened with Autism by Jo Raphael, MSW