Understanding Autism and Autistic Functioning av Laura Villa, Luca Casartelli

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<p>This concise volume offers an accessible overview on recent clinical and research perspectives addressing autism and autistic functioning. Offering an innovative lens, the book benefits from two different angles: a concrete and pragmatical view of an expert clinician with three decades of practice in diagnosis and treatment of autism, as well as a more ¿theoretic¿ and ¿long-term¿ view of a researcher that works on neural and computational architecture of (a)typical neurocognitive functioning.</p><p>Trying to understand autism beyond its behavioral symptoms, the book spans from clinical descriptions (e.g., communicating diagnosis; clinical intervention; prognosis) to recent neuroscientific evidence supporting a potential perspective-shift. The <i>fil rouge</i> of this volume can be summarized in three fundamental aspects that should orient any clinical practice in the context of autism (e.g., diagnosis; treatment; monitoring; etc.): we need an <i>age</i>-dependent, <i>context</i>-dep