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Apps for Autism: a Must-Have Resource for the Special
Needs Community, Revised 2nd Edition.Lois Jean Brady, $50.95
Speech Language Pathologist Lois Jean Brady wrote this
book in order to educate parents, teachers, and other professionals about the
breakthrough method she calls “iTherapy” — which is the use of Apple products
(iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) and various apps (computer applications) in meeting
students’ individual educational goals.
Lois believes that all persons on the spectrum can learn
how to use technology in a way that is relevant to them. She shares important
tips on how to use apps responsibly and effectively by maintaining a child-centered,
team approach to teaching and learning, taking into account the individual’s
interests, strengths/ challenges, vision, motor planning, attention, sensory
processing, memory, cognitive ability, environment, and access to tools. Lois
also coaches adults on how they can use prompting and reinforcement techniques
to help establish and generalize skills learned, until students are able to
consistently demonstrate the skills in various environments (home, school,
etc.).
For those who are new to the wonderful world of apps,
worry not! Lois provides helpful sections on how to get started, including:
Choosing an iDevice, Basic iDevice Operations, Opening an Account, How to
Download an App from iTunes, and more. What about apps that released after this
book was published? Again — Lois has you covered! Just visit this book’s
companion website for reviews of new apps that made the grade. |
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ASANAS for Autism and Special Needs: Yoga to Help
Children with Their Emotions, Self-Regulation and Body Awareness. Shawnee
Thornton Hardy, $19.95
This how-to handbook gives parents, teachers, and yoga
instructors step-by-step instruction to teach yoga poses to a child with autism
or other special needs. They will learn how to teach yoga in a fun and
interactive way using games and activities with numerous benefits to the child
from teaching body parts to emotional and sensory regulation.
Breaking down yoga instruction pose by pose, body part by
body part, breath by breath, this book uses easy-to-understand language and
clear photographs to show parents, teachers, yoga instructors, and other
professionals how to introduce the life-long benefits of yoga to a child with
special needs. These benefits include gaining greater awareness and
understanding of the body, learning to self-regulate the nervous system, and
developing coping skills to work through difficult emotions such as anger and
anxiety. Creative yoga games, activities, relaxation exercises, and chair yoga
poses are included to make learning yoga a fun, interactive, and calming
experience for children with a wide range of abilities. |
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Building Bridges through Sensory Integration: Therapy
for Children with Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 3rd
Edition. Paula Aquilla, Shirley Sutton & Ellen Yack, $38.50
Written by three experienced occupational therapists,
this book offers a combination of theory and strategies. It is a perfect tool
for those working with young children, but also broad enough to be adapted for
older children and adults. Building Bridges provides creative techniques
and useful tips while offering innovative strategies and practical advice for
dealing with everyday challenges, including managing behaviors, improving
muscle tone, developing social skills, selecting diets, and more. Part one explains
the role of the occupational therapists in treatment and examines sensory
integration theories. Part two offers methods of identifying sensory problems
in children along with numerous strategies and activities. Helpful topics
include:
- What is Occupational Therapy?
- What is Sensory Integration?
- What are the Sensory Systems?
- Identifying Problems with Sensory Integration Strategies for
Challenging Behaviors
- Ideas for Self Care Skills
- Adapting Home, School, and Child Care Settings
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Building Sensory
Friendly Classrooms to Support Children with Challenging Behaviors. Rebecca
Moyes, $28.00
Sensory Integration Disorder often manifests as a behavioral problem. This book shows teachers how to incorporate data-driven strategies in designing a classroom that both minimizes stress and improves student productivity. |
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Creating Multi-sensory
Environments: Practical Ideas for Teaching and Learning. Christopher
Davies, $36.50
Multi-sensory environments in the
classroom provide a wealth of stimulating learning experiences for all young
children whose senses are still under development. CREATING MULTI-SENSORY
ENVIRONMENTS is a highly practical guide to low-cost, easy to assemble
multi-sensory environments. With a step-by-step guide to each activity, these
creative learning environments focus on multi-sensory experiences and are
designed to stimulate all the sensory channels — auditory, visual, kinesthetic,
olfactory and gustatory.
Theory and background to multi-sensory
learning is provided to enable you to adapt the suggested scenarios according
to the needs of individual learners. This practical and easy to use book is an
essential companion for busy classroom practitioners wanting to create a
stimulating and meaningful learning environment. |
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The ECLIPSE Model:
Teaching Self-Regulation, Executive Function, Attribution, and Sensory
Awareness to Students with Asperger Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism,
and Related Disorders. Sherry Moyer, $34.95
The process of attributing or assessing our circumstances is a neglected area for young people with Asperger Syndrome and other pervasive developmental disabilities, yet it poses severe challenges for them. The ECLIPSE Model targets the global skills needed to improve social competence, such as executive functioning, theory of mind, causal attribution, processing speed, and working memory. Without effective use of these skills on a regular basis, development of other areas of functioning, such as academic, adaptive or activities of daily living, and social and vocational skills will be challenged. This curriculum provides step-by-step lessons for teaching these vital skills in a way that is motivating to young people. |
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Flexible and Focused: Teaching Executive Function
Skills to Individuals with Autism and Attention Disorders. Adel Najdowski,
$55.50
Flexible and Focused: Teaching Executive Function
Skills to Individuals with Autism and Attention Disorders is a manual
written for individuals who work with learners who struggle with executive
function deficits. The manual takes the perspective that executive function
skills can be improved through effective intervention, just like any other
skills. This how-to manual provides practical strategies for teaching learners
to be focused, organized, flexible, and able to effectively manage themselves.
Ready-to-use lessons, data sheets, worksheets, and other tools for
practitioners, educators, and parents are provided to help them tackle common
problems associated with executive function deficits in learners of any
diagnosis, ages 5 to adult. The principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA),
which form the foundation of this manual, are translated into simple,
easy-to-use procedures. Lessons for improving executive function skills in
real-life everyday situations are provided in the following areas:
- Self-awareness
- Inhibition and impulse control
- Self-management
- Attention
- Organization
- Problem solving
- Time management
- Planning
- Working memory
- Emotional self-regulation
- Flexibility
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A Guide to Sometimes Noise Is Big for Parents and
Educators. Angela Coelho & Lori Seeley, $19.95
Understand how children with autism experience the world
around them with this simple guide. Learn why they might react unexpectedly to
lights, noise, and even seemingly simple requests, and what you can do to help
reduce sensory overload.
This accompanying guide to the children's picture book Sometimes
Noise is Big takes the illustrations and gives a breakdown of what is
happening in each picture, with practical tips on how to help children who
struggle with sensory issues. This book can also be used as a standalone
resource, and is ideal for supporting children aged 5+ with autism at home, in
the classroom, and for raising awareness of autism and sensory issues.
Also available: Sometimes Noise Is Big. Angela
Coelho & Camille Robertson, $21.95 (ages 5+) |
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Rising to New Heights of Communication and Learning for Children with Autism. Carol Spears & Vicki Turner, $24.95
The definitive guide to using alternative-augmentative communication, visual strategies and learning supports at home and school. |
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Sensory Integration:
a Guide for Preschool Teachers. Christy Isbell & Rebecca
Isbell, $23.95
Sensory Integration: a Guide for
Preschool Teachers helps you identify children who have difficulties
with sensory processing, and it offers simple, easy-to-use solutions
to support the sensory needs of young children in the preschool
classroom. Easy-to-implement solutions include adaptations and activities
for children with different types of Sensory Processing Disorder.
This book has a bonus chapter with instructions for creating low-cost
items to help children with sensory issues. |
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Show Me! A Teacher's Guide to Video Modelling. Carol Dittoe & Heather Bridgman, $27.95
With the technology we have today (tablets, smartphones,
applications), implementing video modeling is easier than ever! This book is
meant to inspire readers to think about how they can use video modeling by
providing many real-life examples of students who have used and found benefits
from watching video to learn social skills, positive behaviors, and academics.
A helpful planning guide is provided to help teams get started and more easily
implement the video-modeling strategy. |
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Solving Executive Function Challenges: Simple Ways to
Get Kids with Autism Unstuck & On Target. Lynn Cannon, Lauren
Kenworthy, Katie Alexander, Monica Adler Werner, Lisa Greenman & Laura
Anthony, $33.50 (Grades K-8)
How can you help kids with autism be flexible, get
organized, and work toward goals — not just in school but in everyday life? It's
all about executive function, and this quick problem-solving guide
helps you explicitly teach these critical skills to high-functioning children
with autism. Used on its own or in tandem with the popular Unstuck and
On Target classroom curriculum, this practical guide shows how to
embed executive function instruction in dozens of everyday scenarios, from
morning routines to getting homework done. Designed for therapists, teachers,
and parents, these highly effective techniques give children the skills they
need to navigate each day, reach their goals, and succeed inside and outside
the classroom. |
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Teach Me with Pictures: 40 Fun Picture
Scripts to Develop Play and Communication Skills in Children on the Autism
Spectrum. Simone Griffin, Ruth Harris & Linda
Hodgdon, $35.95
An easy-to-use resource for
professionals and parents, this book provides fun and practical ideas to help
motivate and extend communication and play skills in children with autism with
the support of pictures.
The book describes how picture scripts
can help facilitate play and learning and provides 40 photocopiable scripts
across a range of different activities such as drawing, cooking, using
construction toys, imaginative play, arts and crafts, and life skills. Tasks
are presented in small manageable step-by-step picture sequences and support a
range of skills including following instructions, increasing independence,
comprehension, story-telling and choice-making. Readers can print copies of the
scripts from the CD-ROM that accompanies the book. |
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Technology Tools for Students with
Autism: Innovations that Enhance Independence and Learning. Katharine Boser, Matthew Goodwin & Sarah Wayland, $55.95
Technology holds great promise for
helping students with autism learn, communicate, and function effectively in
the modern world. Start leveraging that power today with this forward-thinking
book, your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with
autism and help them fully participate in their classroom and community. You'll
learn about readily available technologies you can use right now, and explore
next-wave innovations that will help shape the future of autism intervention.
You'll also get critical guidance on how to select the appropriate technology
for your needs, weave technology into a universal design for learning
framework, and conduct effective professional development so teachers make the
most of new tools and strategies. Explore the benefits of technologies like:
- apps for education, communication, behavior
regulation, and more
- video modeling
- language processing software
- customized digital stories and book creator apps
- element cue supports
- emotional regulation and sensing technologies
- interactive learning software to improve
feedback and metacognition
- visualization and mind mapping apps
- text-to-speech and speech to text software
- e-readers and tablets with integrated multimedia
(e.g., cameras, microphones, etc.)
- electronic data collection forms for use with
handheld devices
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Unstuck & On Target!
Lynn Cannon, Lauren Kenworthy, Katie Alexander, Monica Adler
Werner & Laura Anthony, $62.50
An executive function curriculum to
improve flexibility for children with autism spectrum disorders. |
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Visual Support
for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Materials for Visual
Learners. Vera Bernard Opitz & Anne Häußler,
$49.95
This book offers practical ideas and teaching methods for using visual supports with students with autism spectrum disorders and other visual learners. With hundreds of colorful illustrations and step-by-step directions, this book lays the foundation for how to structure teaching environments, as well as offers countless examples of activities for students, ranging from basic skills, to reading and math, to social behavior. |
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Complete
Booklist
Apps for Autism: a Must-Have Resource for the Special
Needs Community, Revised 2nd Edition.Lois Jean Brady, $50.95
ASANAS for Autism and Special Needs: Yoga to Help
Children with Their Emotions, Self-Regulation and Body Awareness. Shawnee
Thornton Hardy, $19.95
Asperger Syndrome and Sensory Issues: Practical Solutions for Making Sense of the World. B. Smith Myles et al, $23.95
Building Bridges through Sensory Integration: Therapy
for Children with Autism and Other Pervasive Developmental Disorders, 3rd
Edition. Paula Aquilla, Shirley Sutton & Ellen Yack, $38.50
Building Sensory Friendly Classrooms to Support Children
with Challenging Behaviors. Rebecca Moyes, $28.00
Creating Multi-sensory Environments: Practical Ideas for
Teaching and Learning. Christopher Davies, $36.50
The ECLIPSE Model: Teaching Self-Regulation, Executive
Function, Attribution, and Sensory Awareness to Students with Asperger
Syndrome, High-Functioning Autism, and Related Disorders. Sherry Moyer,
$34.95
Flexible and Focused: Teaching Executive Function
Skills to Individuals with Autism and Attention Disorders. Adel Najdowski,
$55.50
A Guide to Sometimes Noise Is Big for Parents and
Educators. Angela Coelho & Lori Seeley, $19.95
Meaningful Exchanges for People with Autism: an Introduction to Augmentative & Alternative Communication. Joanne Cafiero, $24.95
Rising to New Heights of Communication and Learning for Children with Autism.Carol Spears & Vicki Turner, $24.95
Sensory Integration: a Guide for Preschool Teachers. Christy
Isbell & Rebecca Isbell, $23.95
Show Me! A Teacher's Guide to Video Modelling. Carol Dittoe & Heather Bridgman, $27.95
Solving Executive Function Challenges: Simple Ways to
Get Kids with Autism Unstuck & On Target. Lynn Cannon, Lauren
Kenworthy, Katie Alexander, Monica Adler Werner, Lisa Greenman & Laura
Anthony, $33.50 (Grades K-8)
Sometimes Noise Is Big. Angela
Coelho & Camille Robertson, $21.95 (ages 5+)
Teach Me with Pictures: 40 Fun Picture
Scripts to Develop Play and Communication Skills in Children on the Autism
Spectrum. Simone Griffin, Ruth Harris & Linda
Hodgdon, $35.95
Technology Tools for Students with
Autism: Innovations that Enhance Independence and Learning. Katharine Boser, Matthew Goodwin & Sarah Wayland, $55.95
Understanding Sensory Dysfunction: Learning, Development and Sensory Dysfunction in Autism Spectrum Disorders, ADHD, Learning Disabilities and Bipolar Disorder. Polly Emmons & Liz Anderson, $23.95
Unstuck & On Target! Lynn Cannon, Lauren Kenworthy, Katie
Alexander, Monica Adler Werner & Laura Anthony, $62.50
Visual Strategies for Improving Communication: Practical Supports for School and Home, 2nd Edition. Linda Hodgdon, $60.95
Visual Support for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders:
Materials for Visual Learners. Vera Bernard Opitz & Anne Häußler, $49.95
Visual Supports in the Classroom DVD. Autism Asperger Publishing
Company, $33.95
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For related titles, see our booklists on:
Autism Sensory & Sensorimotor; Autism Visual Supports & Augmentative Communication; Executive Function
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