Smith (pediatrics, U. of Rochester Medical Center), who is joined by several pediatrics and psychology specialists for some chapters, offers a resource for K-12 educators in school teams that demonstrates how to include students with autism spectrum disorders in general education settings. He outlines a process for assessing students at different skill levels, planning and implementing inclusion programs, and working with other professionals and parents. He reviews the background information on these students, their characteristics, similarities and differences from other students, strengths and challenges, and developmental trajectories, and evidence-based instructional practices for them and how they are related to their characteristics and differ from other practices. He addresses supplemental interventions like medications and complementary and alternative medicine and how to prepare students and school teams for inclusion, monitor their progress and adjust interventions, assemble the team and facilitate collaboration, increase student readiness, and implement interventions for individualizing instruction, working on peer interaction, and reducing problem behavior, in addition to sustaining inclusion. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)