E-grāmata: Promoting Collaborative Learning Cultures to Help Teachers Support Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Foreword.- Introduction.- Part I- Professional Learning on Autism
Spectrum Disorder for Teachers in the Asia Pacific Region.
Chapter 1
Contextualising Teacher Education for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
in Hong Kong.
Chapter 2 Professional Learning for Teachers of Students with
Autism Spectrum Disorder in China.
Chapter 3 Professional Development for
Teachers of Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Taiwan.
Chapter 4
Professional Learning Odyssey in a Singaporean Context.
Chapter 5 Current
Status of Education for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder  in Japan and
Research Trends.- Part II - Current Education Practices for Students with
Autism Spectrum Disorder in Schools.
Chapter 6 Constructing an Assessment
Tool for Conducting Social and Behavioural Interventions in Support of
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Chapter 7 Developing
SchoolUniversity Partnerships to Help Teachers Run a Social Skills Training
Programme for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Chapter 8 Evolving
from a Case based model to a Whole-School Approach and Three-Tier Model in
Supporting Students with ASD: A Case Study of a Resource School in Hong
Kong.
Chapter 9 A Service Learning Course on the Education of Children with
Autism Spectrum Disorder for University Undergraduates in Hong Kong.
Chapter
10 The Use of Corpus Compilation in the Study of Children with Autism
Spectrum Disorder.
Chapter 11 Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum
Disorder Social Skills through a Home-centre Collaborative Computer
Programme.- Part III Emerging Approaches to Teaching and Learning for Teacher
Professional Learning in Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Chapter 12 Videos as a
Tool in Teacher Professional Learning: How Do Videos Scaffold Teachers
Understanding of the Behaviours of Students with ASD?.
Chapter 13 Optimizing
Collaboration between Educational Psychologists and Teachers in the
Facilitation of Class-wide Support to Students with ASD.
Chapter 14
Collaborative Problem-based Approach in Training Teachers to Use Positive
Behaviour Support to Help Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Chapter 15
Collaborative Modes of Professional Development for Teachers of Students with
ASD.- Commentaries.

Fuk-chuen Ho, PhD, has been the programme coordinator of courses for teachers of students with special educational needs for more than 20 years. He was assistant professor in the Department of Special Education and Counselling at the Education University of Hong Kong and associate professor (fractional) in the School of Arts and Humanities at Tung Wah College. He has been teaching in the areas of special/inclusive education in the university for over 30 years and has extensive experiences in managing teacher education programmes. His scholarly work has largely contributed to students with dyslexia and autism spectrum disorder and to their teachers. His research has been published in quality academic journals, including Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, Teacher and Teaching Education, Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Educational Psychology, British Journal of Special Education and Journal of Learning Disabilities.

Cici Sze-Ching Lam, EdD, is a registered educational psychologist (Hong Kong Association of Education Psychologists). She is an honorary research associate at the Centre for Advancement in Inclusive and Special Education at the University of Hong Kong and former Senior Lecturer of the Department of Special Education and Counselling at the Education University of Hong Kong. She has had extensive experience in teaching and staff development in special/inclusive education in tertiary education. Her research interests are in the area of education for teaching professions in special and inclusive education, with a special interest in supporting inquiry approach to enhance experiential learning. She has been part of numerous large-scale research projects and has delivered training to parents and teachers for enhancing childrens emotional and social skills. She served on the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Curriculum Development Council Committee on Special Educational Needs and Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority as an expert panel member. Michael Arthur-Kelly, as an Honorary (a Conjoint) Professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia, is focusing his energies on international collaborations with colleagues in his field around the world, centred on inclusive evidence-based practices. He has conducted applied research in a range of areas in disability and special education including communication intervention for people with severe disability and staff training in managing challenging behaviour. He is internationally known for his research on behaviour state assessment protocols for people with multiple and severe disability. In 2009, with Professor Phil Foreman, he conducted an evaluation of educational programs for the Alice Betteridge School, part of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, and in that year he also contributed to the Review of Special Education in the ACT, led by Professor Tony Shaddock. Throughout 2013-2019 he served as a Subject Area Expert with Price Waterhouse Coopers and Monash University in the federally funded analyses of Nationally Consistent Collection of Data about Students with Disabilities, a leading-edge project designed to assist in understanding the support needs of students with disabilities across and within school sectors in Australia.