Autism/Neurodiversity
-
Roz MacLean More Than Words: So Many Ways to Say What We Mean
Nathan doesn't say much. He sure has a lot on his mind, though. At school, Nathan quietly observes the ways his peers communicate. Even when they're not talking, they're expressing themselves in all sorts of ways! By witnessing the beauty of communication diversity, Nathan learns and shows his classmates the essential lesson: Not only does everyone have something to say, but seeking to understand one another can be the greatest bridge to friendship and belonging.
$24.99
-
Motivate to Communicate!
300 Games and Activities for Your Child with Autism This practical resource is brimming with exciting ideas and guidance for motivating children with autism and other communication difficulties. The clear, user-friendly format enables quick access to over 300 practical, fun-filled games and activities for developing your child's communication skills.
$31.95
-
Motivation and Reinforcement
Turning the Tables on Autism. The second edition of the book Educate Toward Recovery is now called Motivation and Reinforcement. This book is the ultimate guide to home based autism intervention. It is a forward-thinking guide that translates the Verbal Behavior Approach to ABA into everyday language. With over 100 new pages of material including new Chapters on Social Skills, Behavior Plans, Token Economies, and Advanced Instructional Control methods, this book is a must have. Robert Schramm, explains how you can keep your child engaged in motivated learning throughout his entire day without forcing participation, blocking escape, or nagging procedures.
$76.95
-
Anna Vagin Movie Time Social Learning: Using Movies to Teach Social Thinking and Social Understanding
This social learning method explains different easy-to-find movies and their accompanying lessons. Each lesson plan identifies the clips used in the movie, and then for each clip, presents ideas and suggestions for teaching Spy Eye, Detective Head, and Me Too! tasks. These tasks help students develop their abilities to identify context, take perspective and make personal connections. Instead of a CD, handouts that include all seven lesson plans as well as ready-to-print templates, handouts, and letters are available to download. (The book outlines directions and website to do this.) Ages 4-18
$50.95
-
Wallis A. Simpson My Andrew: Day-to-Day Living With a Child With an Autism Spectrum Disorder
When the author's son was diagnosed with ASD at the age of 4, she began collecting files of paperwork from doctors and therapists, test results, IEPs, and her own journal writings. She combined this information in chronological order and used it as a resource to explain her son to teachers, grandparents, caregivers, therapists, and other parents. This book prepares teachers, therapists, doctors and family member for that proverbial emotional roller-coaster associated with living with ASD.
$26.95
-
Gloria Dura-Vila & Tamar Levi My Autism Book
Child's Guide to their Autism Spectrum Diagnosis My Autism Book is a beautifully illustrated picture book that helps parents to explain an autism diagnosis to their child in a sensitive, positive and accurate way. It explains what an autism diagnosis means and encourages an exploration of the child's likely strengths and differences using clear language that speaks directly to the child. The colourful pictures throughout show how the world looks from the child's perspective and the book ends with a summary checklist to encourage the child to record and discuss how autism affects them.
$29.95
-
Prasha Sooful, Geeta Ladi My Brain is Magic: A Sensory-Seeking Celebration
Is your brain magic? Whether your brain buzzes around the room like a bee or tells you to be loud and roar like a lion, celebrate the many things that it can be! This sensory-seeking celebration shines a light on neurodiversity and sensory processing in a fun and action-packed way for all children to enjoy.
$28.95
-
Holly Robinson Peete, Ryan Elizabeth Peete, Shane Evans My Brother Charlie
"Charlie has autism. His brain works in a special way. It's harder for him to make friends. Or show his true feelings. Or stay safe." But as his big sister tells us, for everything that Charlie can't do well, there are plenty more things that he's good at. He knows the names of all the American presidents. He knows stuff about airplanes. And he can even play the piano better than anyone he knows. Actress and national autism spokesperson Holly Robinson Peete collaborates with her daughter on this book based on Holly's 10-year-old son, who has autism.
$25.99
-
Beverly Bishop, Craig Bishop My Friend with Autism: Enhanced 3rd Edition
This is the exceptional result of author and parent Beverly Bishop's determination to educate her son's classmates about autism, thus helping her son fit in at school. A peer narrator explains that his friend with autism is good at some things and not so good at others-just like everyone else! In an informative, positive tone, he addresses issues such as: Sensory sensitivity, communication differences, unique ways of playing, and insistence on routine. At the end of the book are page-by-page notes for adults, which supplement the text with facts and explanations to further educate teachers and classmates' parents.
$22.50
-
My Sensory Book
Working Together to Explore Sensory Issues and the Big Feelings They Can Cause: A Workbook for Parents, Professionals, and Children This interactive workbook enables children to develop a better understanding of their sensory systems by helping their parents and teachers create an individualized sensory profile. Through numerous strategies broken down by the different sensory systems, tactile, vestibular, proprioception, visual, auditory, gustatory and olfactory, children can learn to cope more effectively with the world around them. This is a practical tool for both home and school.
$36.95
-
Carol Gray, Abbie Leigh White, Sean McAndrew My Social Stories Book
Taking the form of short narratives, the stories in My Social Stories Book take children step-by-step through basic activities such as brushing teeth, taking a bath and wearing a safety belt in the car. This book contains approximately 100 stories, and is illustrated throughout with line drawings by Sean McAndrew which form a visual counterpart to the text. A helpful introduction explains to parents and carers how to get the most out of the book. These stories are written for preschoolers aged 2-6.
$35.95
-
Dr. Temple Grandin & Dr. Debra Moore Navigating Autism
Navigating Autism: 9 Mindsets for Helping Kids on the Spectrum International best-selling writer and autists' Temple Grandin joins psychologist Debra Moore in presenting nine strengths-based mindsets necessary to successfully work with young people on the autism spectrum. Examples and stories bring the approaches to life, a Empowering strategies for anyone who works with children and teens on the spectrum.
$22.95
-
Navigating The Social World
A Curriculum For Individuals With Asperger's Syndrome, High-functioning Autism & Related Disorders Pediatrician Jeanie McAfee originally created this user-friendly social curriculum for her daughter Rachel, who was diagnosed with Asperger's at age ten. Since then, it has become a staple for parents and educators. It addresses the most urgent problems facing those with Asperger's Syndrome, high-functioning autism, and related disorders. Dr. McAfee covers how to increase communication skills, recognize and cope with emotions, recognize and prevent stress, develop abstract thinking skills, address behavioral problems, and much more. Tasks are broken down into small steps, repeated until they are mastered, then generalized. Helpful handouts, templates, and forms will help keep teachers and learners on track.
$54.95
-
Leah Kuypers, Terri Rossman, Elizabeth Sautter Navigating The Zones
The Zones of Regulation Series This unique and fun cooperative game expands the teachings of The Zones of Regulation curriculum. It introduces the concept of “The Zones Pathway” via a board game that encourages interaction by using a variety of card decks to explore social situations, emotions, and related regulation tools. This flexible teaching tool is non-competitive by design. Social learners collaborate as they practice problem solving how to navigate different social situations, a process required for emotional regulation. Note: educators, therapists, caregivers, and social learners should already be familiar with The Zones of Regulation concepts and vocabulary before playing this game. It is not designed to be a stand-alone social emotional teaching tool. Ages: 8+
$102.95
-
Leah Kuypers, Terri Rossman, Elizabeth Sautter Navigating the Zones Advanced Extension Pack and Game Cards
If you've been using the Navigating the Zones, game, you can easily integrate the Advanced Extension Pack and Game Cards to help more advanced thinkers further develop their problem solving and self-regulation skills. These advanced cards for the Navigating The Zones cooperative game introduce three additional levels of play-including competitive game play! The Advanced Extension Pack provides more nuanced Situation and Feeling Cards and encourages flexible, strategic thinking by introducing Wild Cards, Trade-A-Cards. Box contains 300 Advanced Situation Cards (100 of each: Home, School, Community), 100 Advanced Feeling Cards, 40 Tool Cards (10 per Zone color), 30 Starter Cards, 25 Challenge Cards, Plastic card deck tray and labels. Ages 10+
$48.95
-
Schylling NeeDoh Atomic
Atomic NeeDoh is breaking the boundaries of fidget balls… it’s totally out of this world! Just give it a squeeze, and one turns to many! The growing groovy globs are filled with a super-soft compound, making it the perfect fidget toy. Give Atomic NeeDoh a squish, a pull, or a smush, it will always return back to its original shape! Atomic NeeDoh makes a great gift and is perfect for schools, party favors, those with special needs, an addition to the office, and is exactly what you need to decompress! A fidget toy that satisfies and soothes; NeeDoh is appropriate for anxious tendencies and helps promote focus, attention and centering. Available in Blue/Yellow, Yellow/Pink, and Pink/Blue Squeeze to reveal multiple groovy globs!
$5.95
-
Cynthia Kim Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate
A User Guide to an Asperger Life. Cynthia Kim explores all the quirkyness of living with Asperger Syndrome (ASD) in this accessible, witty and honest guide looking from an insider perspective at some of the most challenging and intractable aspects of being autistic. From being labelled nerdy and shy as an undiagnosed child to redefining herself when diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome as an adult, she describes how her perspective shifted to understanding a previously confusing world and combines this with extensive research to explore the 'why' of ASD traits. She explains how they impact on everything from self-care to holding down a job and offers typically practical and creative strategies to help manage them, including a section on the vestibular, sensory and social benefits of martial arts for people with autism.
$32.95
-
Neurodivergent Pin
A beautiful enamel pin celebrating neurodiversity by local artist Margaux Wosk and their company Retrophiliac Art. Margaux is an Autistic self-taught artist and designer based in Vancouver, BC. These pins are a great way to promote understanding and reduce stigma for neurodivergent folks and people with invisible disabilities.
$9.95
-
Amanda Morin, Emily Kircher-Morris Neurodiversity Affirming Schools: Transforming Practices So All Students Feel Accepted & Supported
This is a guide for K-12 educators to better understand neurodivergence and help neurodivergent students thrive. Inside, you'll find the background information and concrete practices you need to create a school or classroom culture where neurodivergent students feel safe, valued, and understood. You'll also find clear explanations of behaviors common in neurodivergent learners, such as masking, rejection sensitivity, and novelty seeking. Then, discover specific practices that you can use right away. This accessible book is designed to help you take action. By the end of each chapter, you'll understand how the key takeaways apply to your particular situation and how you can meet neurodivergent students' needs in ways appropriate to their unique cognition.
$61.95
-
Neurodiversity Pride Pin
A beautiful enamel pin celebrating neurodiversity by local artist Margaux Wosk and their company Retrophiliac Art. Margaux is an Autistic self-taught artist and designer based in Vancouver, BC. These pins are a great way to promote understanding and reduce stigma for neurodivergent folks and people with invisible disabilities.
$9.95
-
NeuroTribes
The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity Steve Silberman unearths the secret history of autism, long suppressed by the same clinicians who became famous for discovering it, and finds surprising answers to the crucial question of why the number of diagnoses has soared in recent years.
$30.99
-
Carol Gray New Social Story Book: 15th Anniversary Edition
Carol Gray's world-famous Social Stories has helped thousands of children with autism spectrum disorders. This 15th Anniversary edition (Revised & Expanded with over 180 Social Stories) offers ready-to-use stories that parents and educators have depended on for years-with new sections added! Additions include how to most effectively use and apply the stories, how to improve the lives of younger children, and Social Stories for teens and adults with autism. Developed through years of experience, these strategically written stories explain social situations in ways children and adults with autism understand while teaching social skills needed to be successful at home, school, work, and in the community.
$62.95
-
Bo Hejlskov Elvén No Fighting, No Biting, No Screaming: How to Make Behaving Positively Possible for People with Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities
Fighting, biting, screaming and other behaviours that challenge the people dealing with them are often triggered by unsuitable surroundings or unrealistic demands. In this fresh and effective approach, Bo Hejlskov Elvén shows how identifying and adapting these problem areas can dramatically improve behaviour in people with autism and other developmental disabilities.This practical book explains how to reassess difficult situations and offers easy and effective strategies for eliciting positive responses without resorting to restraint and punishment. Based on the successful low-arousal approach, it is a proven method of stepping away from distress and towards calm, improving the quality of life of everyone involved. Helpful examples covering a wide range of developmental disabilities from autism to Down's Syndrome illustrate the positive changes that can be achieved.This empowering book will be invaluable to anyone attempting to deal with unproductive behaviour in individuals with developmental disabilities, whether at home or in a professional environment.
$36.95
-
No More Meltdowns
Positive Strategies for Dealing with and Preventing Out-Of-Control Behavior Dr. Jed Baker offers parents and teachers strategies for preventing and managing meltdowns. Dr. Baker offers an easy-to-follow, 4-step model that will improve your everyday relationships with the children in your life: 1) Managing your own emotions by adjusting your expectations, 2) Learning strategies to calm a meltdown in the moment, 3) Understanding why a meltdown occurs, and 4) Creating plans to prevent future meltdowns.
$24.95
You have seen 264 out of 504 products