Carmel Conn is a teacher and researcher, and has a background in special educational needs and inclusive education. She has many years of experience in supporting children with autism, their friends, schools and families in included educational settings.
'This book provides excellent discussions of the complexities of the sociological underpinnings of autism and how children with this condition develop and grow compared to more typically developing children. ...Conn offers a number of proven techniques to investigate how these children can be understood and provided with meaningful educational and social experiences in and out of school...Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections.'- -J. D. Neal, University of Central Missouri, in CHOICE, January 2015