Top Ten Tips: A Survival Guide for Families with Children on the Autism Spectrum
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This tool will help families with a child on the autism spectrum navigate their way through everyday activities and occurrences in. Contributors include speech language therapists, occupational therapists, autism experts, parents, and individuals on the spectrum.
Asperger Syndrome and Employment : Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome
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Employment is an important part of a healthy, balanced and fulfilling life but less than 20 per cent of people with Asperger Syndrome (AS) are in work at any one time. The adults with AS in this book explore the issues surrounding employment, providing advice and insights for others with AS, as well as their employers and colleagues.
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2008, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-648-7, BIC 2: JM (ISBN 978-1-84310-648-7)
Asperger Syndrome and Social Relationships: Adults Speak Out about Asperger Syndrome
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Social interaction among neurotypical people is complex and in many ways illogical. To the person with Asperger Syndrome (AS) it is also woefully unintuitive. In this book, adults with AS discuss social relationships, offer advice and support for others with AS and provide necessary insights into AS perspectives for those working and interacting with them.
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2008, 234mm x 156mm / 9.25in x 6in, 176pp
ISBN: 978-1-84310-647-0, BIC 2: JM (ISBN 978-1-84310-647-0)
Understanding Death and Illness and What They Teach About Life
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Witnessing someone you care about battling a serious illness, or losing someone you love, usually provokes questions and concerns about your own life and death. In this book, Catherine Faherty addresses those questions in a clear and precise way, geared toward children, teens, and adults on the autism spectrum. Communication Forms make it easier for family members, friends, teachers, and therapists to identify and respond to the unique needs of a person with autism or Asperger’s Syndrome.
Author of the popular book Asperger’s – What Does It Mean To Me, Catherine Faherty works with children and adults with autism through the TEACCH program in North Carolina. She also consults to parents and school programs; offers therapy for children; trains teachers and other professionals locally, nationally, and internationally; and runs social skills groups for children and adults with autism.
You're Going to Love this Kid: Teaching Students with Autism in the Inclusive Classroom. Second Edition
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Education professionals have a strategy-filled guidebook for including students with autism in both primary and secondary school classrooms. Alive with powerful first-person accounts that give readers insight into the experience of having autism, this book shows educators how to adapt their own classrooms to support student participation in classwork, school routines, social activities, and more.
Citation
ISBN 978-1-59857-079-3
Layflat paperback
368 pages / 8.5 x 11
2010 (ISBN 978-1-59857-079-3)
"Just Give Him the Whale!" 20 Ways to Use Fascinations, Areas of Expertise, and Strengths to Support Students with Autism
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When learners with autism have deep, consuming fascinations—trains, triangles, basketballs, whales—teachers often wonder what to do. This concise, highly practical guidebook gives educators across grade levels a powerful new way to think about students' "obsessions": as positive teaching tools that calm, motivate, and improve learning.
Written by an 'insider', an openly gay autistic adult, Wendy Lawson writes frankly and honestly about autism, sex and sexuality. In her new book, she draws upon her own experience to examine the implications of being autistic on relationships, sex and sexuality. Having discussed subjects such as basic sex education and autism, the author goes further to explore the wider issues of interpersonal relationships, same sex attraction, bisexuality and transgender issues. She also examines the unspoken rules that exist between people in relationships and explains why these rules can be difficult and confusing for people with autism. This book will give courage and information to adults with autism or Asperger Syndrome and provide essential insights to those living and working with them.
Discovering that a family member is on the autism spectrum is an experience that affects the entire family, and can particularly disrupt the family when it is a parent receiving the diagnosis. The situation can be difficult to explain to children, especially if a parent has not fully grasped the implication themselves, and any adult facing this challenge will be in need of a helping hand.
This workbook has been designed with precisely this purpose in mind. It will strengthen relationships between parents with ASDs and their children by facilitating understanding of behaviour and situations that all the family will previously have noticed but not understood, and shows how to develop effective problem solving strategies. Chapters cover everything from dealing with the initial diagnosis to understanding special interests, difficulties with social skills and figures of speech, and the need for rules and routines. Every chapter concludes with a worksheet for parent and child to complete together, which encourages mutual understanding and fosters healthy relationships.
Social Enjoyment Groups for Children, Teens and Young Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorders
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Young people with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) often feel uncomfortable and anxious in social situations, but socializing with classmates and colleagues can be made easier - and more enjoyable - with Guiding Toward Growth group sessions.
John Merges' simple yet effective program for teaching social enjoyment skills is based on the concept that there are ten hurdles that make it challenging for people with ASD to enjoy social interaction. This book guides the reader through planning, running, and assessing group sessions that have been designed to help participants overcome these hurdles, interact with confidence, and ultimately enjoy more independent and fulfilling lives. As social interaction is a vital element of any work environment, this book also teaches young adults with ASD an important employment skill.
Asperger Syndrome Employment Workbook: An Employment Workbook for Adults with Asperger Syndrome
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The aim of the book is to enable individuals with Asperger Syndrome to produce an employment biography or work history. By following the steps detailed, and they are detailed, it is hoped the individual with Asperger Syndrome will recognize the lessons from their previous employment or experiences, and use them to advantage in job search and employment.
