Autism/Neurodiversity > Professional/Educator/Parent
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Hands on Activities for Children with Autism & Sensory Disorders
This book contains almost 200 step-by-step Innovative, practical and fun activities for children with autism and sensory disorders--a great resource for therapists, teachers or parents. Included in this book: crafts, recipes, music and exercises for the clinic, classroom or home; a multi-sensory enrichment program for children with autism; gradual exposure actives for children who cannot tolerate sensory input; sensory immersion activities to desensitize children to touch, taste and sound; activities to reduce stress and anxiety through physical exercises and reframing strategies.
$42.95
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Helping Adults with Asperger's Syndrome Get & Stay Hired
Career Coaching Strategies for Professionals and Parents of Adults on the Autism Spectrum In this practical book, readers will gain insight into how people with Asperger's Syndrome think and the common employment challenges they face. It explains how to build rapport and trust, facilitate better job matches, improve interpersonal communication and executive function skills, and encourage flexible-thinking and problem-solving. With tried-and-tested advice, assessment tools, and in-depth profiles of actual coaching clients and innovative companies that are utilizing the specialized skills of people with Asperger's, this book shows the way to a brighter employment future for those on the autism spectrum.
$43.95
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Helping Your Child With PDA Live a Happier Life
Drawing on the author's personal experience of parenting a child with PDA, this insightful and informative guide offers strategies and tips for all aspects of daily life, including sensory issues, education and negotiation. Full of advice and support, this book is not intended to provide information on how to change your children. Rather, it is focused on creating the type of environment that will allow children to be authentically themselves, thereby enabling them to flourish and thrive.
$32.95
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Hidden Curriculum (2nd Edition)
Practical Solutions For Understanding Unstated Rules In Social Situations for Adolescents and Young Adults This book offers practical suggestions and advice for how to teach and learn those subtle messages that most people seem to pick up almost automatically but that have to be directly taught to individuals with social-cognitive challenges. Given the serious consequences that can befall a person who violates a social rule, the strategies and detailed lists of curriculum items make The Hidden Curriculum a much-needed resource.
$39.95
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Hidden Curriculum and Other Everyday Challenges for Elementary-Age Children With High-Functioning Autism
In this 2nd expanded edition, previously entitled "Practical Solutions to Everyday Challenges for Children with Asperger Syndrome", authors Haley Myles and Annellise Kolar give simple, no-nonsense advice on how to handle everyday occurrences that can be challenging for children on the autism spectrum. This reader-friendly book provides social rules that help children with peer relationships, school and everyday activities. New hidden curriculum tips, including tips on Internet safety, provide children essential social rules for succeeding in an ever-changing interactive world.
$35.95
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How Do I Explain to Others What Is Happening with My Child?
Who will this book help? Those on the autism and fetal alcohol spectrum. People with intellectual disabilities, learning disabilities and other brain dysfunctions.
$21.00
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How Do I Teach This Kid?
Visual Work Tasks For Beginning Learners On The Autism Spectrum First runner-up in the 2006 Writer's Notes Book Awards, this book utilizes the strengths of children with ASD to help them develop new skills. Tasks are visually oriented, consistent and expectations are clear. Children learn motor, matching, sorting, reading, writing, and math skills using easy-to-make "task boxes." Tasks include pushing items through small openings (children love the resistance it takes to push them through); matching simple, identical pictures or words; as well as sorting objects by color, size, or shape. Ideas are plentiful, materials colorful, and children love the repetitive nature of the tasks, which help them learn to work independently! Sample data sheets are included.
$32.99
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Mary S. Williams How Does Your Engine Run?: Leader's Guide To The Alert Program For Self Regulation, Revised Edition
Spiral bound. This leader's guide introduces the Alert Program (AP) to occupational therapists, parents, teachers, and other professionals. AP promotes awareness of how we regulate our arousal states and encourages the use of sensorimotor strategies to manage our levels of alertness. Knowledge of self-regulation and a repertoire of strategies enhance our abilities to learn, interact with others, and work or play within our environment in addition to building self-esteem, self-confidence, and self-monitoring skills. It presents a strong awareness of sensory integration.
$69.95
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How to Teach Life Skills to Kids with Autism or Asperger's
No matter how high-functioning children with autism or Asperger's may be or may become, they function better as adults if they've had the chance to learn basic skills, from being on time to good personal hygiene. Jennifer's personal experience with Asperger's Syndrome and having a brother with autism makes her perspective doubly insightful. Learn how to create opportunities for children to learn in natural settings and situations, teach vital skills such as everyday domestic tasks, choosing appropriate attire, and being polite, help individuals on the spectrum develop good habits that will help them be more fit and healthy, Improve time management skills such as punctuality and task-switching.
$27.95
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Arlen Grad Gaines, Meredith Englander Polsky I Have a Question about Death
Death is a difficult topic for any parent or educator to explain to a child, perhaps even more so when they are autistic or have other special needs. This book is designed specifically to help children with these additional needs to understand what happens when someone dies.The first book of its kind, I Have a Question about Death uses straightforward text and images to walk children through what it means when someone dies, as well as ways they might want to react or to think about the person. Using clear illustrations throughout and with information for parents and guardians, this book is essential for families who need to talk about death with any child aged 5-11.
$27.95
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Diane Alber I'm Not Just A Scribble
A story about kindness and inclusion. Scribble, the book's main character, never thought he was different until he met his first drawing. Then, After being left out because he didn't look like everyone else. Scribble teaches the drawings how to accept each other for who they are. Which enables them to create amazing art. This book not only has illustrations that any child can personally recognize but it also addresses inclusion without boundaries so that anyone can relate to it. Each book comes with 100 stickers so that children can create their very own Scribble. They will be able to learn different emotions (that were discussed in the book) as well as associate colors with feelings in a fun creative way.
$26.95
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Kari Dunn Buron, Mitzi Curtis Incredible 5 Point Scale 2nd Edition - Revised
Assisting Students in Understanding Social Interactions and Managing Their Emotional Responses The Incredible 5-Point Scale has sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide and has been used by educators, psychologists, therapists and parents to teach the social and emotional concepts needed for successful social interaction and emotional regulation. In this revised edition, readers will benefit from work done with the scales over the past 20 years. These refinements now include new scales specifically designed for two groups of individuals: young children and those with more classic presentations of autism, including expanded use of the Anxiety Curve.
$36.95
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Interoception
How I Feel: Sensing My World from the Inside Out Many people struggle with sensory processing difficulties. Regulating emotions, knowing when to eat, drink, go to the toilet, and feeling your breathing and heart rate all depend on our internal awareness. Interoception is critical to feel and understand what is going on inside of your body. However, when someone has difficulty processing interoception, knowledge of emotions and regulation of basic body functions can be interrupted causing great frustration. This book contains all you need to know about interoception including the most recent research. Easy to read explanations followed by helpful ideas you can use immediately after reading, make the book an invaluable addition to your collection. Each activity is carefully chosen for both adults and children and will counteract poor interoceptive awareness.
$33.95
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Intricate Minds II: Understanding Elementary School Classmates With Asperger Syndrome
Understanding Elementary School Classmates With Asperger Syndrome. This video features interviews with boys and girls age 8 through 12 who describe what it's like to have Asperger Syndrome. They reveal some of the positive qualities classmates will find if they look past the "different" behaviors that kids with AS sometimes exhibit in school. The program also takes viewers "inside Asperger Syndrome" with demonstrations to help them see things from the point of view of kids who have AS. Also available (priced separately) Intricate Minds (high school) and Intricate Minds III: Understanding Elementary School Classmates Who Think Differently (another version of this DVD with modified narration and additional interviews to cover more disabilities than Asperger's).
$30.00
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Just Take A Bite
Easy, Effective Answers To Food Aversions And Eating Challenges Is your child a "picky" eater or a full-fledged resistant eater? Does he or she eat only 3-20 foods, refusing all others? Eat from only one food group? Gag, tantrum, or become anxious if you introduce new foods? If so, you have a resistant eater. Learn the possible causes, when you need professional help, and how to deal with the behavior at home. Learn why "Don't play with your food!" and "Clean your plate!"-along with many other old saws-are just plain wrong. And who said you have to eat dessert last? Get ready to have some stereotypes shattered.
$38.95
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Key to Autism
An Evidence-based Workbook for Assessing and Treating Children & Adolescents. Filled with dozens of case examples, exercises to understand how the brain with autism works, the latest tools for screening and assessment, and
$38.95
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Launching Your Autistic Youth to Successful Adulthood
Everything You Need to Know About Promoting Independence and Planning for the Future As the mother of a child on the autism spectrum and a child psychiatrist, Katharina Manassis shares common transition-related challenges and offers real solutions for each. The book helps parents and teens plan for every stage of the journey. The book includes discussion of what a successful transition means and how to set realistic goals. It explores specific aspects of the transition such as employment, independence and social life, and looks at how to address long-term concerns such as living arrangements and financial support.
$29.95
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Learning Social Rules in School
Dr. Playwell has brought us another great game designed to help students think about the consequences of their behavior and distinguish good choices from bad ones. The game will also help children practice relaxation and self-control, learning that they can control their bodies as well as their behavior. For children who are having difficulty learning social rules, particularly children on the Autism Spectrum and children with ADD/ADHD. This game is designed to be played in a regular classroom or as part of a social skills training program. Ages 6-12.
$89.50
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Liam Goes Poo In The Toilet
A Story About Trouble With Toilet Training. For a typical child, learning to gain control over the body's internal stimuli can be at best challenging. For many children, however, these internal cues can be overwhelming and confusing, leading to both a frustrating and traumatic toileting experience. This book illustrates the relationship between eating and excreting. It provides visual instructions on how to "relax and push". After much fanfare Liam finally masters going poo in the toilet and both he and Mum bask in the glory of a job well done.
$23.95
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Life Skills Activities For Secondary Students With Special Needs 2nd Edition
This book offers teachers and parents a unique collection of more than 200 worksheets to help adolescents with special needs build the life skills they need to achieve independence and succeed in everyday life. The book provides 22 complete teaching units focusing on basic life skills such as handling money, succeeding at school, using the Internet safely, getting and keeping a job, and much more. The book contains 90 reproducible worksheets for teaching students how to apply these life skills to real-life situations. Includes complete teaching units with reproducible worksheets and discussion questions that teach basic life skills.
$51.50
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Make Your Own Picture Stories for Kids with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder): A DIY Guide or Parents and Carers
Brian Attwood took up pen and paper when his son John's meltdowns became harder to deal with. The effect was immediate and time and time again picture stories have bailed the family out of trouble and saved John from unhappiness and confusion. In this book, Brian describes step-by-step how to create simple yet effective picture stories using basic drawings and short lines of text, and provides examples based on real-life situations for you to adapt for your child. This book will give parents and carers the tools and confidence they need to create individualized picture stories to help their child with ASD cope with social situations, difficult emotions, transitions and other challenging situations.
$27.95
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Masturbation, Autism and Learning Disabilities
A Guide for Parents and Professionals Intimate self-touch and masturbation can pose many difficulties for people with learning disabilities and/or on the autistic spectrum, particularly when it happens in public settings. This frank and thorough guide looks at societal, cultural, and religious views of masturbation, how teens develop into sexual beings, the right to be sexual, how to masturbate, appropriate public and private behaviour, professional responsibilities and boundaries, and legal aspects of this topic. It also contains good practice responses providing examples of the issues and solutions in action.
$39.95
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Chris Martin May Tomorrow Be Awake: On Poetry, Autism, And Our Neurodiverse Future
Adults often find it difficult to communicate with autistic students and try to "fix" them. But what if we found a way to help these kids use their natural gifts to convey their thoughts and feelings? May Tomorrow Be Awake explores these questions and opens our eyes to a world of possibility. It is the inspiring story of one educator's journey to understand and communicate with his students-and the profound lessons he learned. Chris Martin, an award-winning poet and celebrated educator, works with non-verbal children and adults on the spectrum, teaching them to write poetry. The results have been nothing short of staggering for both these students and their teacher. Martin introduces the techniques he uses in the classroom and celebrates an inspiring group of young autistic thinkers. In telling each of their stories, Martin illuminates the diverse range of autism and illustrates how each so-called "deficit" can be transformed into an asset when writing poems. Meeting these remarkable students offers new insight into disability advocacy and reaffirms the depth of our shared humanity.
$33.50
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Me and My PDA: A Guide to Pathological Demand Avoidance for Young People
This beautifully illustrated guide helps young people with Pathological Demand Avoidance (PDA) to understand their diagnosis, develop self-awareness and implement their own personalized problem-solving strategies. Written in consultation with young people with PDA and their families, this book recognizes the importance of handing control back to the young person, and that there is no one-size-fits-all PDA profile. Readers are encouraged to engage throughout with interactive writing, doodling and checklist exercises to explore their own particular characteristics, strengths and challenges. Me and My PDA is sensitively tailored to the needs and experiences of young people (aged 10-18) with PDA.
$32.95
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