Developing Resilience in Young People With Autism Using Social Stories

Dr Siobhan Timmins

Young people with autism can be particularly susceptible to setbacks, often leading to depression and a sense of hopelessness.  Based on Carol Gray’s highly effective Social Stories model, this book introduces a more productive way of looking at common life setbacks and offers tools to overcome obstacles, build resilience and develop coping strategies for the future.  Ideal for parents and professionals working with young people, especially young people with autism, from age 11 up to adulthood.

Developing Resilience in Young People With Autism Using Social Stories

Developing Talents

Temple Grandin & Kate Duffy

This updated and expanded edition considers the continuing dismal employment statistics for individuals with ASD.

The authors take an in-depth look at entrepreneurship. Using real-life examples, they point out that many of the unique characteristics of individuals on the autism spectrum lend themselves well to entrepreneurial ventures. The book explores many unnoticed aspects of Vocational Rehabilitation programs that provide job training and placement for people with disabilities, as well as Social Security Administration programs that offer vocational assistance. Employment figures and prospects have been updated, and new jobs have been added that are well suited for those on the spectrum.

Developing Talents

Diary of a Social Detective

Jeffrey E Jessum

The social world can be a mystery, even to the most savvy among us.

While social relationships are frequently a source of joy and satisfaction, they can be a source of frustration and confusion — downright. What is someone to do if his entire social world is a mystery to him? How is a person supposed to proceed in life if she does not understand why others act the way they do, or how she is supposed to behave in order to fit in with others? While Diary of a Social Detective is first and foremost a detective/ mystery book for young readers, it also addresses these often unspoken questions and offers clear-cut, practical strategies for solving social mysteries. The book is unique in that it steps outside the usual box of social skills solutions and delivers insights, tools and solutions within an engaging storyline that kids can relate to.

Diary of a Social Detective

Difficult Situations

Becky Spivey

Difficult Situations Fun Deck helps students discuss how they would react to a variety of stressful situations.

For example, “Another student keeps looking at your answers during a test.” What would you do? Use these 56 illustrated cards to talk about safety, emotions, and different ways of acting in response to events that might occur. Improve reasoning, inferencing, sequencing, and memory skills too! Game ideas and content cards included. Cards are stored in a sturdy storage tin.

Difficult Situations

Discipline Without Shouting Or Spanking

Jerry Wykoff & Barbara C. Unell

Practical solutions to the most common preschool behavior problems. "This book should be required reading for any parent who wants to react to preschooler conflicts calmly and non-violently. "

It is a treasury of practical principles and concrete strategies for answering the universal child rearing challenges parents face every day.

A timely guide to discipline for young children introduces a series of effective, nonviolent, and practical alternatives for correcting common behavior problems among preschool youngsters, offering tips on how to cope with whining, tantrums, negativity, sibling rivalry, hyperactivity, aggression, and other issues. Original.

Discipline Without Shouting Or Spanking

Do You Know Me?

Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott

Find your people, find yourself. Having a tribe of your people means that you don't have to pretend.  You don't have to say that you're ok when you aren't

Tally is autistic and proud.  She used to try to hide her autism, but now she is determined to make sure people see who she really is.  At the school camp, Tally is thrown into the company of bully Skye.  Skye is far from Tally’s ideal friend, but spending a week alone is so much worse!

Do You Know Me?

Don’t Behave Like You Live In A Cave

Elizabeth Verdick

Help kids make smarter choices at home and at school with this kid-friendly book that takes a positive approach to behavior problems.

Better behavior isn’t just about making adults happy. When kids make better behavior choices, they stay out of trouble, feel good about themselves, and get along better with family, friends, and teachers. That leads to self-control, awareness, and a positive outlook, so things go better for kids. Lighthearted yet supportive and frank, with full-color cartoons and humorous text, this book helps readers learn to make thoughtful, deliberate, positive behavior decisions. That means fewer behavior problems and more freedom-and fun. Behavior issues addressed include small ones, like talking or blurting out in class, as well as more challenging behaviors such as fighting or disobeying parents.

Don’t Behave Like You Live In A Cave

Dude That’s Rude!

Pamela Espeland & Elizabeth Verdick

Kids today need manners more than ever, and Dude, That's Rude! makes it fun and easy to get some.

Full-color cartoons and kid-friendly text teach the basics of polite behavior in all kinds of situations-at home, at school, in the bathroom, on the phone, at the mall, and more. Kids learn Power Words to use and P.U. Words to avoid, why their family deserves their best manners, and the essentials of e-tiquette (politeness online). It seems like light reading, but it’s serious stuff: Manners for kids are major social skills, and this book gives them a great start.

Dude That’s Rude!

Ed Mouse Finds Out About Times of Day

Illustrated by Adam Stower

The concept of time is introduced as an adventurous mouse performs his daily activities. At various points in the text the reader is asked to answer questions based on the illustrations.

Ed Mouse live in a mousehole in a big kitchen.  Today he is going ice skating with his friend Jo.  Why don’t’ you join him?

Ed Mouse Finds Out About Times of Day

Ellie Needs To Go

Kate E. Reynolds

This visual resource helps parents and carers teach girls and young women with autism or other special needs about how to use public toilets safely.

It covers the subtleties of social etiquette including lining up and taking your turn, as well as practicalities, such as remembering to lock the cubicle door. With simple and effective illustrations throughout, the book is the perfect starting point for teaching independence when using public toilets.

Ellie Needs To Go

Embarrassed Often, Ashamed Never

Lisa B. Elliot

In this cross between Chicken Soup for the Soul and the best of Erma Bombeck, the author, the mother of a young boy with Asperger Syndrome...

gives us a rare glimpse of the ups and downs of family life with an individual who has autism spectrum disorder. From swim meets to Chinese restaurants, from school to church, to birthday parties, and everything in between, the reader is let into the everyday lives of the Elliott family. At once tender and hilarious, the episodes in the book all illustrate the basic tenet of this charming book – while living with a child with autism spectrum disorder often leads to embarrassing moments, nobody ever needs to be ashamed.

Embarrassed Often, Ashamed Never

Emergence: Labeled Autistic

Temple Grandin & Margaret Scariano

Dr Temple Grandin was diagnosed as being autistic at the age of three. An intelligent child with a thirst for knowledge, but unable to properly express herself or control her own behavior...

Temple struggled through grade school. Eventually, her disruptive behavior forced her expulsion from a “normal” school and enrollment at a school for autistic children. There Temple fared better, but she began to suffer from “nerve attacks.” Through working at the school’s farm, Temple learned about cattle presses, which are used to calm nervous livestock. After building her own cattle press, Temple Grandin used it to successfully control her own nerve attacks.

Emergence: Labeled Autistic