Visual Strategies For Improving Communication

Linda A. Hodgdon

Learn to use simple tools to help children with autism have better communication. Would you like to avoid some of those behavior meltdowns that are common for these students?

Then you need visual strategies.

This is the Revised & Updated edition of the best-selling book, Visual Strategies for Improving Communication. It’s the most comprehensive book to explain the use of visual strategies to improve communication for students with autism, Asperger’s and others with special learning needs.

This bestseller is full of practical, easy to use techniques and tools that will help these students participate more effectively in social situations and life routines.

A note from SWAN: ‘Asperger’s Syndrome’ is no longer used as a diagnosis and the term “high-functioning” is harmful, as it minimises the varied support needs of autistic people.  SWAN does not endorse these terms, but recognises that this resource contains other useful information.

Visual Strategies For Improving Communication

We bought a Zoo

Benjamin Mee

Chuck it all in and buy a zoo? Why not? thought Benjamin Mee. So begins a remarkable rale of anxious wolves, awkward creditors, escaping big cats and, in the midst of it all, family tragedy.

We bought a Zoo

Welcome To Consent

Yumi Stynes & Dr Melissa Kang

How to say no, when to say yes, and everything in between.

An inclusive, frank and funny guide to navigating consent for tweens and teens of all genders, from the award-winning authors of Welcome to your Period.

Welcome To Consent

What Are You Doing?

Michael Whelan

A film about Autism.

“What Are You Doing?” is a short film created by Autism Awareness Australia, which aims to teach school aged children about acceptance and understanding of their peers with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

What Are You Doing?

What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew

Various Authors (Edited by Ballou, Thomas & daVanport)

What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew is the book that many of us wish our parents would have had access to when we were growing up.  In this first anthology book release from the Autism Women’s Network, the autistic contributors write with honestly and generosity about the emotional needs, sensitivity and vibrancy of autistic girls.

What Every Autistic Girl Wishes Her Parents Knew

What Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancer

Sara Olsher

A cancer diagnosis is scary, and for kids it can be confusing too.

Join Mia and her stuffed giraffe Stuart as they explain the science of cancer and how a loved one’s diagnosis and treatment affect their day-tp-day life.

What Happens When Someone I Love Has Cancer

What is Asperger Syndrome and How Will It Affect Me?

Martin Ives

A guide for young people. Asperger syndrome is quite a tricky thing to explain. Your friends and even your teacher may never have heard of it.

This book answers some questions that people often have about Asperger syndrome. It also gives you some ideas about dealing with the difficulties you might experience and talking about your condition to other people.

A note from SWAN: ‘Asperger’s Syndrome’ is no longer used as a diagnosis and the term “high-functioning” is harmful, as it minimises the varied support needs of autistic people.  SWAN does not endorse these terms, but recognises that this resource contains other useful information.

What is Asperger Syndrome and How Will It Affect Me?

What To Do When Bad Habits Take Hold

Dawn Huebner

This book provides the keys to escape from a variety of pesky habits. Engaging examples, lively illustrations, and step-by-step instructions teach essential habit-busting strategies...

targeting everything from nail biting and thumb sucking to shirt chewing, hair twirling, and more. This interactive self-help book is the complete resource for educating, motivating, and empowering children to set themselves free.

What To Do When Bad Habits Take Hold

What To Do When You Grumble Too Much

Dawn Huebener

This hands-on workbook features information and exercises for kids who are coping with excessive stress, anxiety, fears, and worry.

It includes writing and drawing activities along with practical, proactive exercises and techniques to reduce anxiety and worry. Illustrations.

What To Do When You Grumble Too Much

What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck

Dawn Huebener

A kid's guide to overcoming OCD.

This book guides children and their parents through the cognitive-behavioural techniques used to treat Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Revealing OCD in a whole new light, this interactive self-help book turns kids into super-sleuths who can recognize OCD’s tricks. Engaging examples, activities, and step-by-step instructions help children master the skills needed to break free from the sticky thoughts.

What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck

What’s Happening To Ellie?

Kate E. Reynolds

This book is about puberty for girls and young women with autism and related conditions. Follow Ellie as she begins to notice changes to her body,

this simple resource helps parents and carers teach girls with autism and related conditions about puberty. It covers all the changes that they will experience, both emotional such as new feelings and physical such as periods.This fully illustrated, positive and entertaining book provides perfect opportunity to talk about puberty with girls and young women with autism or related conditions.

What’s Happening To Ellie?

What’s Happening To Me?

Peter mayle

What's an erection? Why is my chest getting bumpy?

What’s a period?
Why is my voice acting so funny?
Why do I get pimples?
What’s masturbation?
Why am I getting hairy?
Why is mine not like his?
What’s a wet dream?

What’s Happening To Me?