Autism/Neurodiversity
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Barb Cook, Michelle Garnett Spectrum Women: Walking To The Beat Of Autism
Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations.
$36.95
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Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent 6-Book Set
Increase students success in social communication with instruction that systematically targets specific skills and uses a variety of learning methods. Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent helps students learn appropriate social communication during social interactions, detect and interpret others' perspectives correctly, and boost their self-esteem by learning how to control social interactions. The 6-book set of Spotlight on Social Skills Adolescent includes these titles: Conversations, Emotions, Getting Along, Interpersonal Negotiation, Making Social Inferences, Nonverbal Language.
$152.95
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Stewie BOOM! and Princess Penelope: Handprints, Snowflakes and Playdates
At school, Penelope's teacher encourages the class to play with someone new at recess so that they can see that minds, like handprints and snowflakes, are one of a kind. Penelope chooses Eric and they have so much fun she invites him over for a play-date. Before he arrives, Penelope's Mom tells her that Eric's mind is called on the spectrum, and so his unique preferences might be different from the ones she's used to. To prepare, they practice using quiet voices, listening with their eyes, and being flexible. As their play-date unfolds, Penelope and Eric show readers the many ways that families can embrace neuro-diversity.
$15.50
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Patricia Weaver Stuff You Need To Know: A Guide for Young Adults with Autism
Is your child with autism getting ready to live on their own? This book is a guide to help kids and young adults with autism learn the most basic skills to achieve independence. This workbook covers beginner-level tasks such as reading nutritional labels and making healthy choices, practicing good hygiene and getting ready independently, following a recipe to make lunch, realizing when something is an emergency (and having an action plan), and using technology and social media safely.
$23.95
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Siobhan Timmins Successful Social Articles into Adulthood: Growing Up With Social Stories
The first book that explains how to use Social Stories to support younger adults with autism focuses on some of the most common issues that arise as they enter the adult world. The stories engage with the various stages of applying for a job, adjusting to a work environment, maintaining physical and mental health, and staying safe. Along with the sample stories are explanations of how to create your own story to develop further understanding and draw connections between each story and the issues they explore. From practical skills such as dressing for an interview, to identifying emotions and recognizing symptoms of depression, this book takes Social Stories a major step further and adapts them to the realities of adult life.
$43.95
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Michelle Garcia Winner, the Superflex Creative Team Superflex and Focus Tron to the Rescue!
Meet the Thinkable Focus Tron. Wherever they are at school, or home, in the community, Focus Tron helps Social Town citizens remember to use their focusing powers to stay connected to what they're doing or what others are talking about. In the story, Sarah periodically get visits from the Unthinkable Brain Eater who distracts her thoughts away from her classwork, homework, and listening to the teacher. Thanks to a lesson from the Superflex Academy and assistance from Focus Tron and other Superflex pals, she learns strategies to keep her thoughts on track. Ages 7-10+
$39.95
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Michelle Garcia Winner, the Superflex Creative Team Superflex and Kool Q. Cumber to the Rescue!
Meet the Thinkable Kool Q. Cumber. Kool helps Social Town citizens stay calm when problems happen, and use strategies they learn to figure out the size of a problem and the expected reaction size. Aiden and his classmates present science projects, but Aiden's friend Sam becomes frustrated with problems throughout the day. As Sam feels his brain being invaded by Glassman, he uses the strategies he learned from Kool and the five Power Pals to calm down and have a reaction that matches the size of the problem. Ages 7-10+
$39.95
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Tara Estes, Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke Superflex Bingo
Superflex® Bingo enables students to practice identifying Social Thinking concepts and Superflex characters to strengthen their self-regulation and superflexible thinking powers. Students listen to a situation and figure out a Social Thinking© concept or Superflex character that fits the situation. The game is designed so that all players "win" by getting bingos during the session, alleviating behavior dysregulation that can often occur during competitive games. This package is comprised of 12 games in one, providing 12 different themed card packs to keep students engaged and learning. This is not a stand-alone teaching tool; do not introduce this game until your students have completed You Are a Social Detective!© and the Superflex© curriculum. Ages 7-10
$64.95
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Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke, Kari Zweber Palmer Superflex Dynamic Duo Bundle
Grab your magnifying glasses, fasten your capes, and take off with the Dynamic Duo—our Superflex social learning series for K-5 Tier 1 classrooms and Tier 2 instructional settings. In these two complementary curriculum kits, you'll find a total of 35 fun, interactive print & digital lessons and step-by-step teaching support guides with BONUS digital content—downloadable Thinksheets, activity lessons, and teaching PowerPoints to help bring social learning and problem solving to life in ways that motivate and empower kids and are fun to teach. This bundle contains: You Are a Social Detective!, 2nd Edition, You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide, Superflex® 2nd Edition Kit: Curriculum, Storybook, and Visuals. Ages: 5-10+
$219.95
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Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke, Stephanie Madrigal, Kari Zweber Palmer Superflex Series All-in-One Bundle
Social Detective & Superflex Series® Looking for an engaging, proactive way to teach social awareness, perspective taking, and self-regulation? Kids around the world are having so much fun learning how to transform themselves into a Social Detective® as well as their own "Superflex®" superhero that looks just like them. Within the Superflex books, lessons are structured to encourage students to pretend to manage imaginary characters called the UnthinkaBots® and, in later lessons, engage their Thinkable powers. This All-In-One Bundle contains a collection of Detective & Superflex series products, including our award-winning You Are a Social Detective! 2nd Edition storybook, brand new You Are a Social Detective! Teaching Curriculum & Support Guide® (designed as companion guide to teach the concepts explored in the award-winning storybook), new release Superflex Takes Flight Board game, Superflex Curriculum Package® Revised Edition 2024, Superflex Super Sticker Collection®, This collection of Superflex® products is great for schools and clinics where staff can share them for years to come. Eleven pieces in all! Ages 5-10+
$564.95
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Stephanie Madrigal, Michelle Garcia Winner, Pamela Crooke Superflex Takes On Brain Eater and the Team of UnthinkaBots 2nd Edition
The UnthinkaBot Brain Eater uses attention-grabbing powers, DistractoBots, to distract Social Town citizens' brains from focusing. Brain Eater and the DistractoBots can pull our attention away from what we are supposed to be doing, what others are talking about, or using our brains to focus on things at school or home. Fortunately, the Thinkable Focus Tron has powers (strategies) and tools that can help students learn organizational and planning skills to keep their minds tuned in. Teaching occurs through the lens of Superflex Aiden as he shares what he's learning at the Superflex Academy with readers. Ages 7-10+
$46.95
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Michelle Garcia Winner Superflex Thinkables Poster
Our Thinkables represent the expected thinking and behaviors that kids learn through the use of our related curriculum. Superflex represents the superflexible social thinking that's in each of us. When we use our flexible thinking our Thinkables, who are part of Superflex's team, start showing up! The poster displays each of the 14 Thinkables, their names, and each of their powers. A great visual tool to supplement the Superflex Superhero Curriculum and for use in the classroom, clinic, or at home! This is a dry erase poster. Ages 7-10+
$27.95
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Michelle Garcia Winner Superflexes Take on the UnthinkaBots Poster
UPDATED! The Superflexes Take on the Unthinkabots Poster colorfully displays all 14 of the original Team of Unthinkables in a fresh new and larger format. When we use our flexible thinking we can overcome the sneaky Unthinkables. The Unthinkables range from Glassman to Rock Brain to Worry Wall and Energy Hare-y, with the poster displaying each of their powers and how they try to sabotage our thinking and social behaviors. With this newly updated edition, you'll also notice tweaks to several of our characters to bring more diversity into the characters and the curriculum. The larger format is a great visual tool to supplement the Superflex Superhero Curriculum and for use in the classroom, clinic, or at home! This is a dry erase poster. Ages 7-10+
$27.95
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Elizabeth Verdick, Elizabeth Reeve, Nick Kobyluch Survival Guide for Kids with Autism Spectrum Disorder (And Their Parents)
This positive, straightforward reference book offers kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) a comprehensive resource for understanding their condition and finding tools to cope with everyday challenges. Updated content reflects changes in the understanding of ASD. The book also features new stories of young people with autism and an added chapter, "Tech Talk." Meant to be read with a parent, the book addresses questions and provides strategies for communicating, staying safe and smart online, making and keeping friends, and succeeding in school. Body and brain basics highlight symptom management, exercise, diet, hygiene, relaxation, sleep, and toileting. Emphasis is placed on helping kids handle intense emotions and behaviors and get support from family and their team of helpers when needed.
$30.95
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Mary Sue Williams, Sherry Shellenberger Take Five: Staying Alert at Home and School
This book was written for parents and teachers, providing activities that are helpful to keep children alert at home and school. Many therapists recommend these low budget, easy-to-use activities. Teachers, parents, and therapists will love the quick movement breaks and other suggestions to expand their repertoire of self-regulation strategies for use in a variety of settings. Although this book supports How Does Your Engine Run (sold separately at Odin Books), it is organized around the five self-regulation strategies in a fun, practical, way. The strategy lists are helpful as are the ways to adapt activities and can be used to design treatment plans in a variety of settings.
$49.95
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Take Out The Toys (Social Learning ASD Book 2)
Take Out the Toys is the second booklet in the Make Play ROCK Series for parents of children with ASD and other communication difficulties. This resource focuses on expanding "functional play" ability, ( early play involving conventional or expected actions using toys). Early toy play of children with ASD differs from typically developing children. These powerful intervention techniques engage children, so the next functional steps can be planned and supported, to help children learn to imitate, enabling them to transfer new learned skills to a variety of toys and play partners.
$16.00
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Mary Wrobel Taking Care Of Myself2: For Teenagers And Young Adults With ASD
Written for teenagers and young adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD), this instructional book is also for parents, instructors, and therapists to help teens on the autism spectrum. The information is written in an easy-to-understand manner with simple how-to lists. This book is geared for use in an instructional or home setting for any teenager or young adult with ASD. Topics covered include: dressing for different events, feeling anxious in social situations, public versus private behaviors, staying healthy, anxiety, depression, and feeling suicidal, social media issues, sexual harassment, finding and keeping friends (including a boyfriend or girlfriend), safe and responsible sex, and deciding to have sex with a partner, and more.
$39.95
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Mary Wrobel Taking Care Of Myself: A Hygiene, Puberty, And Personal Curriculum For Young People With Autism
Puberty can be especially tough when young people have autism or other special needs. Through simple stories similar to Carol Gray's Social Stories, author Mary Wrobel teaches caregivers exactly what to say and not say, and shows how you can create helpful stories of your own. Mary addresses hygiene, modesty, body growth and development, menstruation, touching, personal safety, and more. Young students can benefit from self-care skills such as using the toilet, brushing teeth, and washing hands. Parents and teachers should begin teaching these necessary skills as early as possible, even from ages 3-5. The ultimate goal is to maximize the child's potential for independence and lifelong social success.
$34.95
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Hannah Louise Belcher Taking Off The Mask: Practical Exercises to Help Understand and Minimize the Effects of Autistic Camouflaging
Growing up autistic can often feel as though you have to become a chameleon in social situations, camouflaging yourself to fit in with a seemingly neurotypical world. Combining lived experience with scientific research and practical advice, this book is the essential guide to understanding why you mask and how to feel confident without one. Focusing on diagnostic devices like the Camouflaging Autistic Traits Questionnaire (CAT-Q) to discover the situations in which you mask the most and why, alongside a range of techniques, from CBT, compassion based therapy, DBT, and mindfulness to relieve anxiety and reduce stress, this guide gives you all the tools and confidence you need to re-connect with yourself, the things you love and finally, take off your mask.
$32.95
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Fern Sussman TalkAbility: People Skills for Verbal Children on the Autism Spectrum - A Guide for Parents
Even after they have learned to talk, children ages 3-7 with ASD, mild autism or social difficulties face special communication challenges. To have real 'talk-ability,' children have to understand the meaning behind the words by tuning in to the thoughts and feelings of other people. Parents and professionals have long sought a down-to-earth guide on how to help these children develop the people skills that make it possible to engage in real conversations and connect well with others. TalkAbility answers this need with a wealth of practical strategies that parents can build into their child's everyday life. These strategies help children gain both the social and special language abilities necessary for successful conversations and friendships.
$54.00
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Alex Kelly Talkabout for Children 1: Developing Self Awareness and Self Esteem (US Edition)
Revised for professionals, and with a new Foreword by Nancy Tarshis and Debbie Meringolo (Altogether Social LLC, New York), TALKABOUT for CHILDREN 1 focuses on self-identity and self-awareness. Resources include an assessment framework to help identify specific needs. Over 40 structured activity sessions focusing on self-awareness and self-esteem, and the resources needed to deliver the sessions, 25 group cohesion activities to help facilitate productive group sessions, and a three-unit intervention plan. This book is an invaluable resource for therapists, teachers, child psychologists, and all professionals looking to develop the self-confidence of children aged 4 + or children with special needs.
$59.95
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Alex Kelly, Nancy Tarshis, Debbie Meringolo Talkabout for Children 2: Developing Social Skills - US Edition
This book focuses on social skills including talking, assertiveness, and body language. Resources include an assessment framework to help identify specific needs, over 60 structured activity sessions focusing on social skills, and the resources needed to deliver the sessions. There are also 25 group cohesion activities to help facilitate productive group sessions, and a three-term intervention plan. This book is an invaluable resource for therapists, teachers, child psychologists, and all professionals looking to develop the social skills of children aged 4 + or children with special needs.
$59.95
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Alex Kelly, Nancy Tarshis, Debbie Meringolo Talkabout For Children 3 (US Edition)
This book focuses on the skills necessary to develop and maintain healthy friendships. Resources include an assessment framework to help identify specific needs, over 25 structured activity sessions focusing on friendship skills, and the resources needed to deliver the sessions. Also included is a three-term intervention plan, This book is an invaluable resource for therapists, teachers, child psychologists, and all professionals looking to develop the friendship skills of children aged 4 + or children with special needs.
$59.95
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Talkabout For Teenagers (US Edition) Social/Emotional Regulation ASD
Suitable for Speech and Language Pathologists, Teachers, Social Workers, Child Psychologists and School Counselors, Talkabout for Teenagers has been thoroughly updated and edited for a US audience. Designed specifically for teenagers, this practical workbook provides ready-made material for running social and relationship skills groups with older children and young adults. Divided into five, hierarchical modules self awareness and self esteem; body language; conversational skills; friendship skills; assertiveness skills each module includes a teaching plan with worksheets and photocopiable resources.
$56.95
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