Understanding emotions - their own and others' - poses a major challenge for children with autism spectrum and other social cognitive challenges, causing frustration, misunderstandings, and often behavioral outbursts. Let's Talk Emotions: Helping Children with Social Cognitive Deficits, Including AS, HFA, and NVLD, Learn to Understand and Express Empathy and Emotions, a collection of easy-to-use activities for children ages 4-18, gives parents, teachers, and others a valuable resource. Through a wide variety of experiences, children learn to identify and respond to their own feelings as well as the feelings of others, thereby improving their chances of maintaining and establishing fulfilling and successful social relationships. The appendix offers many activities and worksheets for emotions discussed in the book.

Let's Talk Emotions: Helping Children with Social Cognitive Deficits Including AS, HFA, and NVLD, Learn to Understand and Express Empathy and Emotions

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Cardon, Teresa A.

Children's Health

AAPC Publishing

His classmates have identified him as a friend of Jackson's, who has autism, and now Tyler is trying to understand what that means in terms of his own personality. Over the course of this highly readable and swift-moving middle-grade novel (2nd to 6th grade), Tyler realizes that Jackson is a true friend who has enriched his life. Other students get to know Jackson across the school year. The book celebrates individual differences in all people and fosters an environment or acceptance. Written by a speech-language pathologist who works with children with autism spectrum disorder, this novel belongs on the library shelf of any middle-grade classroom.

Jackson Whole Wyoming

Children's Books

Clark, Joan.

Growing Up & Facts of Life

The Walking the Path Model is a much-needed resource designed to guide youth with autism spectrum disorders to identify their gifts and strengths. The model leads youth into active community involvement during the transition to adulthood and provides emotional support throughout the process. With a focus on increased capability and independence, the guide/workbook helps establish goals and paths to pursue in the quest for self-value and a true quality of life beyond high school. The process is applicable to all levels of ASD.

Becoming Remarkably Able: Walking the Path to Talents, Interests, and Personal Growth

Parenting & Relationships

Marquette, Phd Jackie

Disabilities & Hyperactivity

Self-advocacy plays a vital role in nearly every aspect of life for individuals on the spectrum, in school, at home, in the community, and at work. The more self-awareness people on the spectrum possess, the more they can be players in advocating for their own comfort, happiness, and well-being. This cutting-edge curriculum helps professionals and family members provide children and adults with ASD with safe forums for self-discovery, structured learning activities, and a cumulative understanding of the many facets of self-advocacy. The 12 units included in the Teacher Edition and Student Workbook provide a comprehensive curriculum with detailed lesson plans, worksheets and activities, culminating in the creation of a personal self-advocacy portfolio, a living document that can be adjusted over the life span.

The Integrated Self-Advocacy Isa(r) Curriculum (Student Workbook)

Education & Teaching

Paradiz PhD, Valerie

Schools & Teaching

Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students With Special Needs guides teachers, clinicians and administrators through a simple, step-by-step process to create lessons that addresses the social, environmental and communication challenges that often block students' access to academics and other learning. As the slim, 90-page volume indicates, the authors don't want to add more work to educators' already busy day. The book makes an educator's existing workload easier to manage by helping them create well-designed lesson plans that bring together learning objectives, supports and modifications students need in the classroom. Guided instructions are printed on all template forms.

Lesson Plan a la Carte: Integrated Planning for Students With Special Needs

Germain Otr Lcsw, Todd

Olivieri Mps, Sarah

Developed as a component of the Ziggurat Model, the Underlying Characteristics Checklist (UCC) is an informal, non-standardized assessment tool designed to identify characteristics across a number of domains associated with ASD. The UCC User Manual outlines directions for using all 3 Underlying Characteristic Checklists: UCC-CL, UCC-HF, and the UCC-EI. The UCC and the Ziggurat Model in tandem lead to a program that is based on individual needs and uses the best practices in the field. Manual also includes the Individual Strengths and Skills Inventory found in the Ziggurat Model book.

Underlying Characteristics Checklists (UCC) User Manual

Aspy, Ruth

Ph.D., Barry G. Grossman

Autism as Context Blindness

Vermeulen, Peter, Ph.D.

Although Adalyn is brilliant in academics and has highly developed, special interests, she is filled with fear and prefers to be alone as she finds most human beings confusing and annoying. Adalyn's best friends are the animals in the science room, which is just about her favorite place in the whole wide world. But then comes Clare... Clare is a therapy puppy who has been assigned to help Adalyn find friends. This is a big assignment for a three-month-old puppy, but she doesn't have to figure it all out on her own. Clare draws support from memories of her own mother's wisdom, some really caring teachers; and the life lessons of a friendly ferret, two very smart rats, an exotic bird and a three-legged, guinea pig. Their stories will entertain, delight and amaze you. With the release of Adalyn's Clare, author Kari Dunn Buron, hopes to draw attention to the realities of social anxiety, the importance of teaching relaxation and other coping strategies and the need for teachers and loved ones to help create valuing relationships for children who have difficulty making friends, like Adalyn. Recommended for young readers in grades 3-6.

Adalyn's Clare

Buron, Kari Dunn

Animals

Autism as Context Blindness Instructor Manual

Vermeulen PhD, Peter

This text presents a developmental social-pragmatic approach to facilitating language and social communication. Consistent with SCERTS model (Social Communication Emotional Regulation and Transactional Supports), it makes a major contribution to the training and support of young children on the autism spectrum, ages 3-5. While the focus is on the preschool environment, suggestions are provided for how to extend the approach to the home and other environments where the child spends time.

Facilitating Early Social Communication Skills: From Theory to Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Pamela Rollins

Social Sciences

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