The goals of this book are to teach students to follow picture directions in sequence, complete important activities independently and to recognize sight words paired with the illustrations. This book contains 46 lessons divided into five categories: Cooking, Crafts, Life Skills, Play and Discovery.

Picture Directions Building Independence Step by Step

Pat Crissey

IEP Resources/Attainment Company

The objective of Getting the Message is to teach students, especially those with autism, how to "read" facial expressions, body language and gestures. It looks at non-verbal communication as a highly complex and subtle language, but an essential one that students must master. The book provides facial expression cards and written scenarios for use in assessments as well as in teaching activities.

Getting The Message

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Attainment Company, Inc.

A comprehensive overview of methods and strategies for developing functional communication in children and adolescents with autism. Teaching Communication Skills addresses the needs of nonverbal and beginning communicators, plus children with high functioning autism and Asperger Syndrome. The book provides a PDF on CD with many valuable resproducibles, like reinforcement preference sheets and symbol recognition assessments. A unique resource that focuses on the one issue pertinent to all individuals on the spectrum - communication.

Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Autism

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Children's Health

Attainment Company

Science Step By Step uses photo sequences to help students complete hands-on experiments and observations. The materials needed for the experiments are common, everyday items you probably already have on hand. The Student Book has 52 experiment activities arranged by units: Water, Air, Light, Sound, Gravity, and Magnets. Activities vary from 2 to 10 steps, each beginning with a material list and ending with a two-choice observation. Materials, steps, and observations are all illustrated with clear, concise, and easy to read photos. Pages are laminated for durability.

Science Step by Step Student Book

A Resource Guide and Reproducible, Personalized, "I Have Autism" Book with CD-ROM.

"I Have Autism" (A Child's First Look at Autism)

Super Duper Publications

Our ability to understand nonverbal communication is essential for successful social interactions. If we don't know what is being communicated, how can we respond appropriately? In recent years, awareness has been raised concerning the importance of understanding nonverbal communication, including facial expressions, body language and tone of voice. Reading these nonverbal clues has proven challenging for some individuals, including many on the autism spectrum. Yet parents, teachers and therapists have often been left to their own devices, as far as how to teach nonverbal communication. How does one teach something so complex, yet so intuitive? Beyond Words: Using Paralanguage to Communicate Effectively was written to provide a sequence of teaching activities for students struggling to understand paralanguage. It begins with a quick overview for understanding emotions and body language. These topics are not covered in detail in this curriculum, however some activities are provided, as well as a list of resources for teaching these topics in more detail. This curriculum has broken down paralanguage into its distinguishing characteristics; volume, rate, emphasis and inflection, with a chapter devoted to each. The final chapter entitled, Tone of Voice, integrates all of these different voice characteristics, along with facial expressions and body language to give the student practice at determining the speaker s emotional state in a more holistic way, considering all aspects of nonverbal communication together. The main emphasis throughout the curriculum is that it is activity based. Like learning a new language, what is needed is a lot of practice and repetition. A wide variety of engaging activities are used to teach and reinforce skills, including listening practice, games, movie clips, role-plays, and apps. This curriculum has two goals. The first goal is that students become better communicators, both at expressing themselves as well as understanding others. The second is that they have fun and enjoy the process of learning these new skills.

Beyond Words: Using Paralanguage to Communicate Effectively

AAPC Inc.

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