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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.


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

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.


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.


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+)

 

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.


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.


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.


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

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.


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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