Parenting Girls on the Autism Spectrum
Eileen Riley-Hall
Overcoming the challenges and celebrating the gifts.
This book is a celebration of all the wonderful and unexpected gifts that having a daughter on the autism spectrum can bring to a family.
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Patients with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
Christine Deudney (National Autistic Society UK)
This booklet is aimed at all health professionals who may come into contact with an adult or child with autism for reasons other than their autism.
Doctors, nurses, paramedics, dentists, opticians and hospital staff will find this leaflet useful.
Social skills for teenagers and adults with Asperger Syndrome
Nancy J. Patrick
Teenagers and adults with Autism Syndrome can struggle with social skills, friendships and relationships...
and this book is written to provide them with a survival kit for day-to-day life.
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.
Social Skills Training For Children With Asperger Syndrome & High Functioning Autism
Susan Williams White
This practical, research-based guide provides a wealth of tools and strategies for implementing social skills training in school or clinical settings.
Numerous case examples illustrate common social difficulties experienced by children with Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism; the impact on peer relationships, school performance, and behavior; and how social skills training can help. Chapters delve into the nuts and bolts of teaching and reinforcing core skills in classroom, small-group, or individual contexts, emphasizing ways to tailor interventions to each individual’s needs.
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.
Solving Behaviour Problems In Autism
Linda A. Hodgdon
Are you frustrated by the inevitable communication breakdowns and behaviour difficulties that occur regularly with your most challenging students? Then this is the book for you!
Solving Behaviour Problems In Autism targets an area of greatly expressed need, provided in a very practical and pragmatic approach to managing problem behaviours. Packed with samples and examples of strategies that have worked to improve communication and solve behaviour problems. Learn more about the behaviour – communication – visual strategy link.
*Includes the Guide For Assessing Behaviour Situations
Steps to Independence
Bruce L Baker & Alan J Brightman
Teaching everyday skills to children with special needs.
Now in it’s third edition, this step-by-step guide has helped thousands of parents teach essential life skills to their children with disabilities. Updated with additional teaching tips and an expanded section on behavior problem management, this friendly accessible book brings you sample activities, case examples, skills inventories, and cartoon illustrations to make teaching – and learning – easier. you will also find a chapter devoted to computers that offers advice on using technology to enhance children’s learning.
Students With Disabilities In Mainstream Classrooms
Anthony Shaddock, Loretta Giorcelli & Sue Smith
This resource has been written for mainstream teachers who have, or are about to have, a student with a disability in their classroom.
The booklet may also be useful for teaching assistants, parents and others. The resource is based on recent research and experience in schools and classrooms across Australia. The resource is divided into 3 sections:
Teachers, Students and the Law
Vivien Millane (A.C.E.R.)
The essential reference for every Australian teacher - further revised and updated.
This indispensable pocket-sized resource guides primary and secondary school teachers through the many complex legal issues that arise in the school environment. Covering the key topics, from bullying to intellectual property, Teachers, Students and the Law provides concise, plain-language information in an easy-to-use format. This new edition incorporates updated information and references, with an up-to-date directory of national contacts and services.
Teaching Thinking Pocketbook
Anne de A'Echevarria & Ian Patience
A troubleshooting approach takes five types of thinking that students typically struggle with...
Processing information; reasoning; inquiry; creative thinking; evaluation – and matches then with ‘thinking tools’. These include ‘odd one out’, ‘concept lines’, ‘inference squares’, ‘kick cards’ and ‘diamond ranking’. Each tool is explained and exemplified with instructions and teaching tips for classroom use. Lists of words and phrases help students take stock of their learning and to talk about their thinking.
The ASD Independence Workbook
Francis Tabone
Transition skills for teens and young adults with autism
This engaging and easy-to-follow workbook is designed to help teens and young adults ages fourteen and up gain the skills needed for daily living – such as maintaining appropriate conversation, reading body language, taking the bus or running errands. This workbook not only focuses on adaptive skills needed in the real world, but also gives teens with ASD the ability to hone these skills, either on their own or with a teacher/caregiver. With the workbook as their guide, teens will be one step closer to leading full, productive and meaningful lives.
The Asperkid’s Game Plan
Jennifer Cook O'Toole
The Asperkid's Game Plan looks from the inside at the learning style of children with Asperger syndrome and explains how to introduce structured play that engages Asperkids and...
and explicitly addresses ASD weaknesses while reinforcing ASD strengths.
Showing how just about anything can be turned into an opportunity for learning and growth, the book is full of go-to ideas for making simple play equipment in the home or classroom and using it to develop core skills that Asperkids struggle with, from fine motor and social skills, to planning and organization. Whether it’s origami math, fried marbles, or a bug’s eye view scavenger hunt, every game, project, and idea in the book is explained with clear directions and learning objectives and illustrated with color photographs.
Jennifer O’Toole’s enthusiastic approach and fun lessons, based on Montessori principles, will inspire and motivate parents, educators, and therapists to make purposeful play a part of every Asperkid’s day.
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.
The Asperkid’s Launch Pad
Jennifer Cook O'Toole
Home design to empower everyday superheroes.
For Asperkids, home is both their protected lair and their launch pad into success in a neurotypical world. Jennifer Cook O’Toole provides parents with all the help they need in planning their home environment to encourage their Asperkid superheroes to soar.
