"Help make elementary school successful for your student with ASD! Written by an educator and mother of two children with autism spectrum disorder, this resource is comprised of practical ideas for addressing the academic, behavior, sensory and social needs of elementary-aged children with high-functioning autism. Intended for teachers and parents, specific topics include organizational accommodations, curricular accommodations, developi ..."
"Nominated for the ABC-CLIO Library Literature Award! The Internet can be a dangerous place, so arm your children with safety. This one-of-a-kind resource outlines the unstated rules that guide relationships in an online environment. The authors address Internet safety, romantic relationships, online vs. in-person interactions, and more, with a particular focus on adolescents and young adults who have communication and social skills diff ..."
"FLIPP the Switch: Strengthen Executive Function Skills is a practical book written for parents and educators by parents and educators. The target audience is anyone who works with young people aged 3-22 who are disorganized, inflexible, impulsive, and who struggle with planning or problem solving. Readers will learn about executive function (EF) and how EF skills contribute to success in school, at home, and in work environments. Most i ..."
"NAPPA Award Winner! Mom's Choice Award Winner! Does your NT child understand his/her autistic parent? A parent with ASD can provide his or her children deep love and support, along with a perspective on the world that is wonderfully unique. At the same time, the emotional and physical demands of parenting can be taxing for someone with autism. For example, while a parent with ASD craves order, reason, and predictability, the experience ..."
"Mom's Choice Award Winner! Make Social Learning Stick! offers ideas and activities that can be used in everyday life to increase verbal and nonverbal language, listening skills, understanding of hidden rules, perspective taking, executive functioning, and more. With close to 200 fun and easy activities, including contributions from leading experts, this book offers numerous ways to embrace teachable moments throughout daily routines wit ..."
"CEC Yes I Can Award Winner! Middle school is an intimidating time for most students, but for students with autism spectrum disorder, it can be a veritable minefield of hidden curriculum rules, social misunderstandings and cliques - and that's before they even get to the academics! In Middle School - The Stuff Nobody Tells You About: A Teenage Girl With High-Functioning Autism Shares Her Experiences, a teenager with high-functioning auti ..."
Finding Our Way Practical Solutions for Creating a Supportive Home and Community for the Asperger Syndrome Family by Kristi Sakai, AapcPublishing Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2005 by AapcPublishing ISBN-13: 978-1-931282-76-5, ISBN: 1-931282-76-5
"Autism Society Award Winner! Finding Our Way: Practical Solutions for Creating a Supportive Home and Community for the Asperger Syndrome Family is written by the mother of three children on the autism spectrum and targets the major issues families face in creating a comfortable environment for every family member. With a balance of heart-warming and side-splitting humor, the author presents countless practical tools for everything from ..."
"Excelling with Autism: Obtaining Critical Mass Using Deliberate Practice introduces a new way to optimize the progress of learners with ASD. Reaching critical mass helps learners apply information in new ways spontaneous generalization. This book is about doing things differently to positively impact individuals on the spectrum by supporting the development of critical mass in areas that are necessary for successful functioning in home, ..."
"Parents: does your child's principal understand ASD? School administrators: do you understand your students with ASD? This can help! School administrators play a key role in creating a mind-set of acceptance of learners with special needs and their families within their school district, region, or school. In many instances, a school administrator guides decisions regarding how teachers address behavioral challenges. The purpose of Speci ..."
"National Indie Excellence Award Finalist! Award Winning Finalist in the Health: Psychology/Mental Health category of the 2018 International Book Awards! Find simple ways to differentiate instruction! Using the analogy of shifting gears on a bicycle, this three-tiered planning model provides education teams with evidence-based practices at three different levels of intensity to address the unique challenges of students on the autism spec ..."
"Empower children on the spectrum to be more flexible! This picture book assists children on the autism spectrum, and any child for that matter, to improving their executive function skills. Specifically, A Week of Switching, Shifting, and Stretching How to Make My Thinking More Flexible guides children to examine their black-and-white thinking in order to start adaptive thinking. Using repeated rhymes and illustrations, the child begins ..."
"The hidden curriculum is one of the most important things to learn! Drawing from her personal experiences, Judy Endow, author of the Hidden Curriculum Calendars, provides a myriad of hidden curriculum items that pertain to most areas of adult life. In relating to how she personally has learned to successfully maneuver social interactions, she also presents a framework for developing the ability to quickly asses a situation and take step ..."
"Get off to a good start. Learn sensible, solid strategies that can be put into practice with children on the autism spectrum right away. "Starting Points: The Basics of Understanding and Supporting Children and Youth with Asperger Syndrome" offers a variety of strategies and visual supports that help children on the spectrum such as: who have difficulty with abstract concepts and thoughts; who have difficulty understanding and regulatin ..."
"Jam-packed with creative theme-based group lessons, this resource follows a sensory integrated developmental sequence consisting of seven activities related to the theme. For maximum flexibility, suggestions for adaptation and modification for individual students are included, along with instructions for how to develop additional lessons. The companion DVD, Learn to Move, Move to Learn: Dinosaurs, gives a first-hand view of real childre ..."
"Students in the inclusive Nest Model score at or above their peers in statewide assessment with no paraprofessional support! The ASD Nest Program serves students with autism spectrum disorder and typically-developing students in a co-teaching, inclusive model and does not require paraprofessional participation. Adopted by the New York City Public Schools and the country of Denmark, this evidence-based approach shows how children with AS ..."
"Building on the success on the legendary Incredible 5-Point Scale: Assisting Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Understanding Social Interactions and Controlling Their Emotional Responses, by Buron and Curtis, this book also uses scales as a way of explaining social and emotional concepts to individuals who have difficulty understanding such information but have a relative strength in understanding systems. The 5-point scales ca ..."
"Research shows that if those on the spectrum know how to converse with others, they are more likely to be employed, live independently, and have friends. As such, children with complex learning problems and autism spectrum disorder need to learn important language and conversational skills. These children are often in situations that may not be meaningful to them and hence are too complex for learning to occur. Due to the importance of ..."